Episode 43: Cadillac V Performance Academy, AMG Peformance Tour, Race Driving Schools
Benjamin spends a week in the desert at the Cadillac V Performance Academy, while Sami heads to Vancouver Island to sample the AMG Peformance Tour. Both compare notes on these factory-backed race driving schools.
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Show Notes
Have you ever wanted to drive your car on a race track? The Cadillac V Performance Academy. which comes free of charge with each V Series Cadillac, lets you do exactly that for 2 days at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, and Benjamin talks about what it's like to spend a week there as a student. Sami discusses his own race driving experience at the AMG Performance Tour on Vancouver Island.
Links:
- AMG Performance Tour: We Sample the Best the Brand has to Offer — Whether you want a hot hatch, high-speed highway hauler, an SUV with a rumbling V8, or an old-school rear-wheel-drive speed machine, your best bet will be to visit the fine folks at Mercedes-AMG.
- Cadillac V Performance Academy Rises Above the Driving School Standard — I’ve spent the past 10 years bouncing from one school to another, working my way through autocross, street survival, road course, and time trial classrooms and pit lanes in a bid to evolve as a driver. During that time, I’ve yet to encounter a program as philosophically cohesive and well-executed as the Cadillac V Performance Academy, which operates out of Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada