Bull-riding lessons: Lamborghini Track Experience
How many supercar owners can extract the true performance potential of their exotics? Unfortunately, having the funds to buy a supercar doesn't mean you have the skills to drive it.
Following in the path of other exotic Italian carmakers – such as Ferrari and Maserati – Lamborghini is offering its own high-performance driving school. Unlike the prancing horse and the trident, however, which offer courses in North America, at this time the Lamborghini Track Experience is offered exclusively in Italy. Held at the Mugello race track (ironically owned by Ferrari), those with €4000 to spend can learn driving techniques from the pros behind the wheel of a 500-hp V10 Lamborghini Gallardo.
Some may scoff at these programs as just another marketing ploy to separate customers from their money. Personally, if I were crafting these cars, I'd want the buyer to know how to drive it. And if I were the buyer, I'd want them to show me. Sounds like a perfect match.
(Thanks for the tip, Pete!)
[Source: Spiegel-Online (translated) via Luxist]
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Fokk 1:45PM (9/14/2006)
:) it is ridiculous, but the truth!
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epp_b 2:23PM (9/14/2006)
Coming up next on Autoblog...
We drive the Gallardo at the track! Stay tuned for a 20-second video showing us driving it at 10MPH and playing crappy music.
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DPC car videos 2:25PM (9/14/2006)
Anyone buying these 500hp+ cars should take the time to go to a driving school, its well worth the money.
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Dave 2:30PM (9/14/2006)
For $150,000+ the car should include the driving school for free. Or build it into the price, I'd definitely want to do it if I bought the car.
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Jason 11:15PM (9/14/2006)
okay, lets work this out: $300k for the car. $5k to not look like an arse while driving it.
... yep, adds up to me
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RacetrackOwner 8:10AM (9/15/2006)
Five grand is about twice what it would cost to take a regular multi-day road racing school. Granted those schools aren't going to let you drive Lambos or Ferraris, but all the skills are directly transferable. That being said, I have many friends who have successfully road raced their various cars for years without any formal training whatsoever. Granted it takes them longer to learn the fast way around a track, but the myth that high powered sportscars are somehow more difficult to drive normally is utterly without basis in fact. The real problem is the temptation to drive them irresponsibly, and generally speaking the types of risks involved with that are not going to be noticably mitigated by any amount of road racing education. The environments and the problems being addressed are completely different.
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