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Another world renowned rally training school is Team O'Neil Rally School and Car Control Center, based in Dalton, New Hampshire. The center is unique for using rear wheel drive cars with regular road tires. The school is also an authorized center for Ford Racing rally experience and the Fiesta rally school. Team O'Neil Rally School is famous for being active with Ken Block and Travis Pastrana training and campaigns. Here is a video from my week long course, driving a BMW 320 with road tires. Snow Rally Training Video. I personally like their type of training. I think it can be easily tailored to anyone who want to improve their driving skills. Whether an average motorist, a rally racing driver, or a person who competes in any sort of car racing. The use of rear wheel drive at snow rally stages requires a great deal of skill and car control. As you have seen in the video, the car was always going sideways even at slow speed. This will teach snow rally driving and control at low speed in comparison with four wheel drive cars which require higher speed to start loosing traction on ice covered surface. Team O'Neil school run their training on many types of roads. Many of their training are done on courses that are similar to actual rally stages. Usually very narrow and bumpy roads in the middle of New Hampshire forests. They also do training on specially built courses such as Skid Pad, Slalom Course and Obstacle Avoidance. Snow rally courses are fun activities, but they are also important. Basic training will give the average person the ability to drive safely on public roads and avoid hazardous situation by applying easy to do techniques. Professional racing drivers who perform well on snow will be able to perform even better on dry surfaces. It is the reason why racing drivers who grew up in heavy snow areas became successful drivers in many aspects of motorsport. Drivers such as Kimi Raikkonen, Mika Hakkinen, Heikki Kovalainen and Tommi Makinen. If you enjoyed this article, please share. I would also like to hear your feedback. Thank you. Fahad.
