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Audi Club NA - North Atlantic Chapter @ Team O\'Neil Rally School
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Team O'Neil Rally School
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From : Saturday, 25 February 2012 12:00 AM
Until : Monday, 27 February 2012 12:00 AM
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Unlimited seats
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 \; If you\'re reading this\, you probably live someplace where it snows in the winter. You also probably drive an Audi\, quite possibly with the fabled Quattro all-wheel-drive system. While you may drive one of the most snow- and ice-capable vehicles in the world\, how would you like to increase your confidence behind the steering wheel and really learn how to drive it in the snow? Our Winter Driving School (WDS) will be held at the Team O\'Neil Rally School in Dalton\, NH. It is a safe\, low-speed event with expert instruction and a fun atmosphere\, on a closed course. If you would like to learn to control your car in slippery conditions\, to handle every type of skid including correcting understeer and oversteer\, how to stop most quickly in icy conditions\, then this school is for you. The school will begin with a classroom session in which we will cover the basic principles of driving on snow and ice -- proper tire pressure\, types of skids and how to correct for them\, winter car preparation (such as why snow tires are a good idea\, even on a modern all-wheel-drive car)\, and so on. You will then drive your vehicle to the Rally School site\, where we continue through a day and a half of exercises such as a slalom\, a skid pad\, and a road course (all under instructors\' expert tutelage) in which these principles are put into practice: The skid pad teaches the difference between understeer and oversteer (and is a lot of fun!)\, \;while \; The slalom teaches the importance of looking ahead\, weight transfer\, and the proper amount of steering input. Combining the two into a challenging road course puts everything together and includes a variety of turns and a