Porsche: Opening a Driving Experience Centre at Silverstone

Porsche will open a Driving Experience Centre at Silverstone.

The school will ensure that new owners get well acquainted with the handling and performance characteristics of their cars.

The new center will incorporate a 3.1km test track that can be split up in four separate areas. Those, in turn, can be used individually to demonstrate different road conditions. Apart from the usual dry/wet testing, drivers will be able to simulate handling in ice and snow. Testing technologies to be featured include a 'kick plate' and split-surface wet braking. The kick plate is particularly special – it's a metal plate that sits flush with the surface of the track and can be activated when a car passes over it, causing it to lose rear grip.

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Source: Autoblog

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