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John Haugland Motorsport Winter Rally School
The Winter Rally School offers courses for rally-drivers who want to improve their results nationally or internationally. John was a works driver for Skoda in International Rallying from 1971 to 1990. Driving a car with little power taught him to pay attention to all details. From 1991 he established his consultancy, using his experience and contacts. The Winter Rally School is the main activity for the winter. During the rest of the year he is involved in Motorsport, following up young drivers in and aiming for World and National Championships, and working with the World Rally Teams, including Prodrive, M-Sport and Skoda. He is also co-ordinator for the Norwegian Peugeot Super Cup.
Past Course Participants have subsequently had improved results. Top drivers such as Richard Burns, Alister McRae, Henrik Lundgaard, Raphael Sperrer, Armin Kremer, Martin Rowe, Mark and David Higgins, Neil Wearden, Neil Simpson and Martin Stenshorne, are just a few of those who have been practising on the tracks on our frozen lakes.
More than 50 Championships have been won by drivers after they have been to the school.
One of the Scandinavian rally drivers secrets behind their success, is the possibility to train on frozen lakes early in their development as drivers. On the lakes you can drive hard and find your limits without doing much damage. By overdriving, you learn car control. Instructor, John Haugland works with each driver in the car, sitting beside observing, and working together to improve details. Normally improvements are found in braking, entry of corners and lines. Smoothness and an efficient driving style is also important. This is also the ideal way to learn and practise left foot braking. The course uses snow and ice as a means to make you fast and safe on all surfaces including gravel and tarmac.
The Courses run with 2 days on the lakes and 2 days on snowy special stages and start in January and run until 20th March. The courses are 4 days long and there is a maximum of 6 drivers per course. There is an hour of theory each evening, main themes include driving technique, suspension set-up and personal preparations.
One-To-One tuition is offered in December & January, with the opportunity to test before the season starts.
We recommend you to bring your own cars. We can also arrange hire of rally-cars in Norway if there are real difficulties in bringing you own.
Where are we? The school is now based in Geilo, which is 250 km North-West from Oslo, 400 km from Kristiansand, and 240 km from Larvik. There are ferry connections via Kiel - Oslo, Fredrikshaven - Oslo, Newcastle - Kristiansand, Fredrikshavn - Larvik and Newcastle - Bergen.
Geilo is 300 km from Oslo Gardermoen Airport and 20 km. from Dagali Airport.
How much does it cost? The school is based at Bardøla Hotel. The hotel has a cafe, restaurant, gym., swimming pool, live music, bars, pub and meeting room where we have theory. The prices, including all meals are: HERE
We hire out second-hand spiked rally tyres for between £10 and £50 per tyre, depending on the quality. Normally you would use between 6 and 8.
What do I need? The car for the course must have:
Ÿ normal rally safety equipment
Ÿ narrow rims,
Ÿ anti-freeze for -30 C.
Ÿ Snow or gravel suspension
Ÿ helmets with intercom. ( Peltor if possible )
Service Vans need winter-tyres or chains. You must bring thermal underwear, warm boots, warm sweaters, jackets, hats and gloves. Temperatures are normally - 5º to -15 ºc, but can fall to - 25. The school has 2 lakes and 20 km. special stages at it’s disposal.
You can contact us on the following numbers;
From 20th March to 30th November
phone - +47 6983 6054 fax - +47 6983 6362
From 1st December to 20th March
phone - +47 3209 0400 fax - +47 3209 1679.
We also arrange Corporate Hospitality Weekends:
Ÿ Cars on race-tracks and special stages
Ÿ Snow-scooter safari
Ÿ Dog-sledging
Ÿ Downhill sledging
All based around a cosy camp with open fire, hot food and drinks.
Ring or E-mail us for more details
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