Jaguar Launches R Performance Academy Driving School

 

Jaguar is the most premium maker to offer a factory-backed action driving school, as it launches the R Performance Academy. In opening the program, Jaguar joins the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and BMW, all of whom offer high-performance driving courses in a difference of planetary settings.

Unlike some of those other automakers, Jaguar is substance liberated tuition for buyers of its two performance-oriented R models, the 2010 Jaguar XFR litter and the 2010 XKR coupe. Both R models feature the same 5.0L 510-hp V-8 engines and apiece car is used extensively in the R Performance Academy curriculum.

 

That curriculum includes a pre-event dinner where R Performance Academy instructors will trade racing anecdotes and vindicate the dynamical program. The following day is the important circumstance and is spent behindhand the wheel of Jaguar R Performance Academy cars during a variety of exercises and on-track driving. Among the topics to be covered are maximum acceleration using Jaguar Drive Control settings, fright braking and information with the ABS system, emergency lane changes, dynamical with traction control systems both limited and turned fully off, cornering, an autocross exercise, and flooded laps at speed with a dynamical coach riding shotgun. At the end of the day, the dynamical instructors will modify take students out on the track for a some blistering laps to show them how it's done.

The first Jaguar R Performance Academy circumstance is set for December first at Homestead Miami Speedway - a 2.210-mile, 14-turn agency course. Starting in 2010, the program will be swollen to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Monticello Motor Club in Monticello, New York, and the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Invitations to listen the establishment will be mailed to all purchasers of 2010 Jaguar R models.

Source: Jaguar R Performance Academy