[Mark]

BMW snow and ice training courses in winter 2011. Winter is coming, but the driving pleasure continues.

With the right preparation, drivers can not only negotiate the winter months safely but have a lot of fun in the process. BMW Snow and Ice Trainings get drivers into shape to handle the demands of winter. From the Alpine scenery above Sölden to the icy roads of Sweden, BMW Driving Experience offers special driver training courses tailored to road conditions in the coldest season of the year. After all, if you can deal assuredly with the challenges of winter, you’ll be able to enjoy its plus points that much more.

Hitting the heights: BMW snow training in Sölden.
The BMW Snow Intensive Training courses in Sölden demonstrate how skilful braking and steering can be used to deal with slippery roads, including uphill and downhill routes. Sölden provides the perfect conditions for the courses; the BMW Driver Training Center in the Austrian resort is the highest venue of its kind. Here participants practise all the skills required for winter driving – from emergency braking to drifting and off-road driving – under the watchful eye of BMW driver trainers. And they can admire the magnificent scenery of the Ötztal Alps at the same time. Participants will have use of a variety of current BMW models over the two days of the course, including the new BMW X3, BMW 5 Series and BMW M3.

Controlled slides: BMW Snow Drift Training.
You need special levels of skill to drift through corners with the copybook excellence of a rally driver. When you get it right, though, it’s not only a lot of fun but also a boost to driver safety in wintry road conditions. Drifting is the effect when a driver allows the rear wheels to break away in a controlled manoeuvre, and confident cornering forms part of the BMW Snow Drift Training course in Sölden. The 420 hp BMW M3 makes this half-day training course in Sölden even more attractive.

Where prototypes dare: BMW Ice Fascination Training near the Arctic Circle.
Arjeplog, 60 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, offers BMW test engineers outstanding conditions in which to put prototype vehicles through their paces under extreme winter conditions. And the Swedish testing site also gives participants in BMW ice training courses the opportunity to learn how to drive with control and assurance in extreme cold-weather situations.


The participants drive a BMW M3 equipped with spikes across large, specially prepared areas of ice, honing their driving skills over the challenging surface with the help of personal tuition from BMW driver trainers. Turning into corners, counter-steering and stabilising are the keys to high-speed drifting with extreme lateral dynamics. A “taxi ride” in the BMW M3 Ice Racer and ice racing action under floodlights with the Polaris quad bike provide the perfect climax to an intensive driving experience. Once the day’s driving pleasure is over, the participants are given an exclusive look behind the scenes of the BMW test centre. In this location far away from BMW Group headquarters in Munich, engineers explain what models are driven, how the cars are tested and what kind of improvements are made in daily testing with the BMW vehicles of the future. The training courses last four, five or six days, depending on the content of the course and the previous experience of participants.

The Snow and Ice Courses at the various locations run from January through to the end of March.

For more information on bookings and prices, go to www.bmw-drivertraining.com.

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[E90SLAM]

Originally Posted by GhostRideTheWhip

So much for anyone who said the M3 can't handle the snow!

Winter cure = longest power slide!

[datbimmerdoe]

[Dackelone]

I wanna GO!!!

[jeff@autocouture]

amazingness

[Imola.ZHP]

Where do I sign up for that job?

[e90fanatic]

sounds fun but porsche has that for a while. as for m3 handling snow, i have no doubt since i drove my 335 RWD in snow storm where there was 2 ft of snow (before plowing + hill climbing) RWD FTW!

[x96283]

BMW Snow High Intensity Training!!

Now I need to go get some of this BMW S.HIT!

[dela]

I don't have to travel that long for any of the european drivers courses, but even though you get a lot, 2800 euroes is just a little too steep for my pockets, unless I sell my car....

[M3EST]

Guys it s unbelievable fun.I did it this april and it was the best driving experience ever.Dont think about it.If you like it just go.You will not regret it .If i could i would go every year once to experience it again and again.

[vladberca]

BMW in snow = the joy is going to max

[e90fanatic]

this is the best time since euro is at its lowest value

[BRAISKI]

This looks fun!!!

Anyone here tried the winter driving course?

[Kolyan2k]

I just completed my 2nd 40 minute drive in snow storm got to love RWD + snow.

[2kaccordocoupe]

Originally Posted by BRAISKI

This looks fun!!!
Anyone here tried the winter driving course?

Yup, I did it back in 09. Lots of fun

[BRAISKI]

Looks like this thread already exists!

Originally Posted by 2kaccordocoupe

Yup, I did it back in 09. Lots of fun

Nice, I was going to go this year but I was too late so next year it is. I would like to do the other driver training, then I can maybe go for a vacation to Sweden and spend 5-6 days for the driver training! Thats if I can get some of the driver training so I have something to show them there to be able to join the advance course... Looks like they may not allow you if you do not have enough experience.