Lamborghini Winter Accademia: Playing In The Snow

Winter driving is a given for any AWD car around here. It doesn’t matter if the car wears a WRX, Carrera4, quattro or SH-AWD badge: if it is driven by its four wheels, it has to be able to perform when the snow piles up.

Usually a Lamborghini isn’t our first choice of ride when it’s time to choose a suitable winter chariot, but it seems as though the manufacturer insists on proving to us that its cars can handle ice and snow, since their driving academy offers a winter curriculum.

Students will learn the basics of driving a 600+ horsepower Italian supercar on limited-grip surfaces while flogging Aventadors and Huracans sideways. Two programs are available: Intensivo (intensive) and Avanzato (advanced). In the first one, teachers split the students into small groups depending on their skill level, and they then spend a day perfecting their winter-driving technique.

As for the Avanzato program, it’s a more complete, two-day course. The first is pretty much the same as the Intensivo class, but the second day focuses more on the driver: each one gets one-on-one time with a professional driver, who will teach them proper brake control, weight transfer, the ideal racing line on a snowy track and customized instruction based on data collected during their drive.

If you were looking for the ideal Christmas gift for someone who has everything, these training sessions will take place in Aspen, Colorado starting February 5 (or in Livigno, Italy and Nagano, Japan).

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