[Gabriel]

ZTWsquared,Mar 1 2010, 07:08 PM Wrote:

Frost__2001,Mar 1 2010, 02:17 PM Wrote:well if you don't mind paying a little bit of money BMW has some really good driving courses available, and you'd get the chance to really drive the crap out of most of the fleet they use, not to mention they have some really advanced courses they'd train you on, and beginners are more then welcome, same with non bmw owners.

I can say I've had an entry class into police driving thanks in part to my uncle durring one of their courses they had for the public in texas, not to mention a winter driving course a few years ago, and that was really fun.
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I belong to the Trillium Chapter of the BMW Club and we have 3 weekend sessions at the full Mosport track every year, plus we can attend the Ottawa Chapter's weekends at Calabogie and the NY Chapters weekends at Watkins Glen and others ... I did a total of 8 weekends last year and plan on at least that many this year. There is a beginners group, and if you show ability they will move you up to intermediate if there's space there.

The training is top notch and includes both classroom sessions and instructors in your car for at least eight 30 minute on-track sessions with you at the wheel, as well as time spent in the passenger seat of the instructors cars - some of which are awesome machines.

One of my instructors had a supercharged M6, another a Turbo 944, another a full blown Corvette race car (260kph at the end of the back straight) and another had a brand new Nissan GT-R ... plus myriad M3s, M5s etc - you get the idea.

Not cheap once you factor in hotel etc ... but absolutely an amazing way to spend a weekend.
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You left out the "interesting" part , such as the fee for a session like this . I heard with BMW club stuff doesn't come cheap .