TEAM O’NEIL TIPS FOR SAFE WINTER DRIVING
With the holidays on our doorstep and winter weather already arriving, the time has come for drivers to prepare their cars (and themselves) for safe winter travel.
With the holidays on our doorstep and winter weather already arriving, the time has come for drivers to prepare their cars (and themselves) for safe winter travel.
Team O’Neil Rally School has announced a brand-new course, Drift School.
The Team O’Neil Rally School located in northern New Hampshire offers a series of one-day Winter Driving Courses that give students the skills and instincts to safely navigate slippery roads.
A 15-year-old without a driver’s license was gleefully sliding the car sideways through turn after turn, the gas pedal floored and the occupants straining against their seatbelts as they were thrown from side to side.
To try and provide some deeper information on winter driving, we contacted the experts who actually run specialized, high-performance, winter driving courses.
Tim O’Neil and Andrew Comrie-Picard give you the All-Access tour of the 560-acre rally school in Dalton, New Hampshire.
Rallying is a nuanced art. It takes years of training to get to the level where you can drive an open class car like this Subaru WRX STI with a sequential gearbox and 500 pound feet of torque. But I didn’t have years of training. I had hours. And driving it has warped my brain forever.
Driving a fairly stock vehicle in off-road situations can be a challenge, but even a completely unprepared vehicle can get through some pretty extreme situations with the right planning and techniques.