Audi Has Launched a New Driving Experience at COTA

Audi of America has launched an all-new driving experience.

Audi spends a lot of time talking about how the road-going R8 and its race car counterparts share an enormous amount of parts, so what better place to teach you how to drive it than at America’s only current Grand Prix circuit, the Circuit of the Americas?

Austin, Texas is the location of the Audi Driving Experience, a year round institution of higher learning. Audi of America has just announced a series of driving programs for Audi customers and fans for drivers of every skill set.

Four programs are offered that allow you to get behind the wheel of the Q7, the RS 3, the TT RS, and the R8.

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The “Audi Sport dynamic experience” puts you behind the wheel with an instructor who teaches you the basic tenets of driving from the wheel of an RS 3 and a TT RS in dynamic exercise paddocks.

“Audi Sport track initiation experience,” meanwhile, is a half-day program that get you on track behind the wheel of the TT RS, the RS 3, and the R8 V10 plus.

Then there’s the “Audi Sport R8 track initiation experience” gets you onto the full F1 circuit. Finally the “Audi Sport R8 pro track experience” is only open to those who have completed the R8 track initiation experience, and delves deeper into the nitty gritty of driving, teaching you performance driving over the course of two days.

The experiences also come with catered meals in dedicated suites and garages. Prices range from $595 to $4995.

Audi is now accepting reservations, check out http://www.thecircuit.com/drive to find out more.

A version of this story originally appeared on Fourtitude

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