Volunteers needed for Audi Winter Driving School next month in NH

[Vincent Gelinas]

Haha. That definitely sounds like something I would be interested in
volunteering for. Where in north country is it?
On Jan 24, 2011 6:41 PM, "Steve Mills" <s.b.mills at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, left that part out- Doh!
>
> Despite the cold, Joel (co-driver) and I had an absolute blast as usual.
We
> had about an hour and a half of "play" time before the students showed up
on
> Saturday, and I did enough skid pad laps to get slightly disoriented ;-)
It
> was as usual a great event- highly recommended. You'll learn more about
the
> effects of weight transfer on traction at one winter driving school on a
> glazed skid pad and slalom course than you will at many dry track events.
I
> had several students tell me it really drove home that you can brake, OR
> accelerate, OR turn, but you really have to pick one and ONLY one. You can
> get away with mixing them on a dry road, but not on more or less sheer ice
> at the bottom corner of the Team O'Neil road course.
>
> I think we were all very warmly dressed, and running around replacing the
> exploding cones helped keep everyone warm, but the top of the
slalom/braking
> was below zero with a 5-10mph breeze on Sunday morning- definitely kept
you
> alert ;-)
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Mark Rosenkrantz <
speedracer.mark at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for coming out (and helping), Steve!
>>
>> I'm always on people to speak up about such things. Despite making an
>> effort to do so, we get so consumed running the exercises that I probably
>> don't ask enough "do you need a break?"
>>
>> The real trouble we get into is that we can only take so many people...
and
>> at the winter school we have a high instructor to student ratio. We want
>> the instructors to be constantly instructing (in and out of the cars) and
>> some exercises (braking/slalom and road course) run MUCH more efficiently
>> with more instructors with students. People don't really realize how much
>> help those volunteers are to both the instructors and students. I just
>> can't overstate it enough.
>>
>> Even though you did get cold (sorry about that!), wasn't it fun??? =)
>>
>> And generally those who volunteer are completely dressed and prepared for
>> the duties. You'll notice my ugly heavy fleece pants.... and I had my
>> skiing snow pants shell in the truck, too... in case I needed to be
outside
>> even more.
>>
>> Anyhow, thanks again... great seeing you, too! More listers should do
Audi
>> club events!
>>
>> Mark Rosenkrantz
>>
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