About this event
Tarheel Chapter BMW CCA Charlotte Area II – Eclipse Day & Driving Event
Monday August 21, 2017
BMW Performance Center, Greer, SC
Join the Charlotte II group for a fun day at the BMW Performance Center. Test your skills on several events in the morning with various BMW models and watch the total eclipse of the sun in the afternoon.
The focus of this event is on improving your driving skills and having fun through a combination of driving exercises, classroom instruction and competitive events. No helmets or previous driving school experience is required. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend.
The school is a half day event designed to explore the performance of various BMW models and just have fun. Planned sessions are the following. Subject to changed based on the Performance Center availability.
- Rat Race - 2 cars chase each other on a wet track, DSC off!
- Buffet – Take a few laps in 5 different BMW models
- Auto cross – Test yourself with timed laps
- Hot Laps – Hold on tight for a thrilling demonstration of car control.
You’ll be driving various BMW standard models across the events. Yes, using their gas, their tires, and their brake pads.
Then we’ll break for lunch provided by the BMW Performance Center.
From 1pm until 4pm a solar eclipse will be racing across South Carolina. The BMW Performance Center is in the path of totality. At 2:38 pm, for 1 minute 22 seconds, the moon will completely cover the sun causing dark enough skies to see stars and the sun’s beautiful corona. Eclipse glasses will be provided to allow us to view the partial eclipse phases before and after totality.
Tentative Schedule:
Monday, August 21, 2017
- 8:00 AM - Meet @ Performance Center
- 12:00 PM – Driving portion ends, lunch
- 1:00 PM – Eclipse viewing begins
- 4:00 PM – Eclipse viewing ends
- 4:00 PM – Tentatively head to the BMW CCA Foundation to tour 75 years of Motorsport
Cost is $450.00/per driver. We need a minimum of 18 participants. Sign up early to assure the event is a success.
Event requirements
The Fine Print. Please read carefully!!!
- All drivers must be BMW CCA members or attend with a club member who pays for the event. In other words, the payment for all attendees must come from a club member. More information is available by contacting the event coordinator.
- Charlotte Area Tarheel Chapter members have first acceptance priority. After that, slots will be open first-come, first-served to all qualified BMW CCA members.
- The Tarheel event coordinators accept applicants into this school through the MotorsportReg.com registration site.
- Each BMW CCA member can bring one or more non-member(s) under their membership/registration/payment.
- Contact BMW CCA Headquarters to become a member of Tarheel Chapters for priority acceptance.
- Acceptance into this event will be made on or about July 21st, 2017 by the event coordinators.
- Registration on this site does not constitute acceptance into this event. It places you in the registration queue and on the wait list. We will contact you to confirm your acceptance into the event.
- All drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a valid driver's license.
- The event cost is per driver, non-refundable, and includes driving Performance Center cars, tires, gas, instructors and lunch at the Performance Center.
- We will need a minimum of eighteen(18) participants for the event to proceed.
- Travel expenses, meals and lodging costs are the responsibility of the attendees and not included in the event registration fee.
- DO NOT make non-refundable hotel reservations until we have contacted you and specifically confirmed you into the event. You are not in the event until we contact you and tell you specifically that you are in.
- You do not have to own a BMW to attend this event. (However, be prepared to purchase one when you return home after the event.)
- BMW Foundation tours will be available at the discretion and schedule of the Foundation.
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Directions to the Performance Center from Charlotte:
- Take I-85 south 82 miles through South Carolina to exit 60 SC 101.
- Turn Right onto SC 101 north.
- Go 1.4 miles to the Performance Center on the right.Follow the entrance road past the front entrance and park in the lot to the right past the building.
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