Porsche Camp4 Canada: it's about going Sideways

The first thing you need to know about Porsche Camp4 Canada is that it's not about going fast. Blasphemy you say?Waste Porsche you say? Well, you're wrong.

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No, we are talking about driving style, and I mean that in an artistic rather than scientific sense of the word - although there is a lot of science behind it all.

Yes, you can shell out some cash to participate in the winter course on the track Mecaglisse hour North of Montreal, QC, to pass though the slalom faster than your classmates, colleagues and friends. Or, you can glide through the pylons sideways, with his foot on the gas and the steering wheel more than the joints in your hands will allow.

Trust me, you'll find the second option is much more useful one.

Driving school unlike any other, Camp4 really more adventurous life and officially declared as an experience rather than a strict driving school.

And this makes sense, because unlike any other driving school available either. Runs on a number of artificial processing courses, massive ice-covered skid pad and, most importantly, prolonged snow and ice track race, it is a completely unique set of challenges and rewards.

Ice, snow and studded winter tires
Hire that on my one day course compressed consisted of Boxster S Carrera and very new Carrera 4S, and all come equipped with Nokian winter tyres with spikes 1.5 mm metal.

This is certainly a hoax I thought to myself on the shuttle bus from the hotel to the slopes on a mild February morning. This is in no way representative of how the car will handle the real world.

As I learned during the day, it's not very important. Snow and ice all slip to get out of control and without thorns, returning to control it would be almost impossible. In addition, after 30 minutes even snow surface with some decent grip quickly turns into a smooth layer of ice.

After a brief instruction on how to rotate the rear of the car, putting it into action has become incredibly difficult task at first glance. With stability control and traction engaged becomes a question of flicking the momentum of the car around trying to use gas without the involvement of onboard safety systems. Production pendulum effect is not very easy, either, when you're piloting is very well balanced with the mid-engine Boxster.

TO LEARN COMMIT
Step in with the rear engine, rear-wheel drive Carrera, however, and he wants to do with the tail, which is a good thing, if you are on a Skidpad width of a football field. With all systems off security, the achievement of long-term drift rewarding feeling as you put to use important skills on the track, such as the balance gas and working on his vision, looking as far into the turn as possible. In any case, the development of this section is an exercise in commitment and feels like the Intro to the drifting of course. As they say, you will go where you look. It's easy to cheat when you have a fast car on a dry road on a warm summer day. It is much harder to keep my eyes looking into the distance, when you already sideslip on the surface almost without clutch.

Do it, though, and you will be rewarded. Look at the snow and you'll be headed there in a big white puff of snow. If you're lucky, the back, the car unharmed. If you don't get ready to break Cayenne shame.

One of the greatest joys of riding on snow-covered track that barriers are large, soft (mostly soft) snowdrifts, so you can go beyond the clutch and not be punished too severely. A word of warning came from one of the instructors, however, noting that they get harder the deeper you go into them.

In an ideal progression, and then moved to the road Course to combine methods. With a large capacity for speed and therefore the greater the probability of error, our cars are changed in accordance with circumstances, and as we jumped in a very new Porsche 911 Carrera 4S models.

The attraction of the drift at the beginning of the corner and keep it stable around, touching the snow does not mean that you adventure ended. Stay on the gas and power curve, and they can be your friend.

SLALOM style
Perhaps the most useful of all, however, the combination of modern management methods with the new Carrera 4S in the capture. Sliding past each cone in the slalom completely sideways, first left, then right, then left, then right, throttle control, steering control and maintain eye where I want to go and making my instincts.

Just strung six corners together, completely sideways, I can't hold back my excitement to shout profanities festive and high fiving my Navigator.

And this, perhaps more than skills, is the best part Camp4 Canada. There is a lot of fun, and a big dose of camaraderie, cheering on your codriver when it's your turn to sit shotgun.

We were even blessed with beautiful weather, with the thermometer sitting right at the freezing mark, that is, the time spent outside of the car was completely living - especially in February in Quebec can certainly get much more bone chilling.

Word to future participants: you do not want to drive with a heavy winter Park as swinging around the wheel like a drunken sailor steering during a hurricane can certainly work up a sweat.

Unlike any motion program I have ever visited (and I've done my share), it may have been the most fun too. Spending just one day behind the wheel, the actual course consists of two programs driving day, sold for a small price of $ 4,995 CDN (inclusive).

Although this price may put it out of the area, some owners Boxster, it's not hard to understand the appeal as a corporate event or reward for top performers. In the end, it combines concepts such as looking ahead, trusting your intuition and create partnerships with excitement slip around Porsche and reward fulfillment of something really special.