The Michigan Chapter of the Audi Club North America sponsors a variety of events throughout the year. While our emphasis is on driver safety improvement through our Drivers' Schools, we also sponsor less formal events including a summer picnic and a fall color tour. Pictures from past events, both Drivers' Schools and social events, can be found on the "Pictures" page.
For 2010, the Michigan Chapter is planning a Drivers' School at Grattan Raceway in April. Other events will be posted as they develop. As in the past, Sideline Sports Photography, LLC will be shooting world-class photos at our Drivers' Schools. Check out the "Pictures" section for examples from prior years
Note that although not all event details are available yet, track maps and basic information about our drivers' schools may be found in the "Track Resources" section.
Event / Date |
Contact |
Application Form |
Event Hotel (click for map/directions) |
Event Info |
| Grattan Advanced Driver Day / April 23 Grattan Drivers' School / April 24-25 |
Mike Fisher | Right-click to download (48kb PDF) |
Comfort Suites Comstock Park (map) 616.785.7899 (hotel link) |
Event Packet |
ACNA Drivers' Schools are carefully structured events where you will learn more about driving and about your car, and will end each day with a sore face from smiling so much! Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced students will all benefit from the driving instruction provided by experienced Club Instructors. Each student will work with an instructor until both student and instructor are comfortable that the student is ready to drive solo on the track. No student will be pushed beyond his/her ability and comfort level. All on-track driving will take place in run groups based on previous experience, and each run group will have multiple sessions on the track.
On Saturday students will receive classroom instruction on the basic concepts of car control and safe driving (well beyond anything taught in high-school driver training!). Then in-car exercises will be conducted with the goal of giving each student a good sense for the braking and accident avoidance capabilities of their car (capabilities that often far exceed what the driver expects!). After these familiarization exercises are completed, students will be introduced to the track by riding with their instructors, and then will have their turn at negotiating the track with their instructor riding along to provide coaching. Saturday's on-track experience is typically followed by a banquet and plenty of camaraderie and bench racing with your fellow enthusiasts.
Activities will resume at the track on Sunday morning, again with instructors coaching the novices and anyone else who would like some additional instruction. By the end of the day each student will have had enough driving time to end the day tired but elated, and looking forward to the next event.
The ACNA Drivers' Schools are open to all Audi Club members age 18 or older. Do you want to become a better and safer driver? Do you want to learn more about the limits of you and your car in a safe environment? Have you always wanted to drive on a racetrack? Have you driven on other tracks before and want to learn a new one? Have you driven at the track before, but want to improve your line? If you can answer yes to any of these questions then an ACNA Drivers' School is for you!
The list of planned ACNA Driving event locations and dates can be found on the Audi Club North America web site.