{"id":414814,"date":"2010-03-10T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/mercedes-amg-driving-academy-picks-up-dates-for-2010-adds-sls-a\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:01:00","slug":"mercedes-amg-driving-academy-picks-up-dates-for-2010-adds-sls-and-pro-level-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/414814","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-AMG Driving Academy picks up dates for 2010, adds SLS and Pro-level courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/safety\/\" rel=\"tag\">Safety<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/amgraceskul.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>AMG Driving Academy at Lime Rock &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nWhat do you do after hitting success with a trial product? Bring it back and make it bigger, of course. That&#8217;s just what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mercedes-benz\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> has done with its AMG Driving Academy, a program that our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/02\/drop-the-hammer-getting-schooled-with-amg-driving-academy-at-li\/\">own Editor Paukert attended the course last fall<\/a> at Lime Rock to his great amusement and education.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s courses will put participants in the Mercedes E63 AMG, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/sl63+amg\">SL63 AMG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/c63+amg\">C63 AMG<\/a>, SLK55 AMG and, new for this year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/sls+amg\">SLS AMG<\/a> gullwing. After working your way up through Basic and Advanced courses, you&#8217;re ready for Top Gun testing in the new Pro level course, which means an &#8220;intense curriculum&#8221; and open lapping at Road Atlanta. Follow the jump for all that goes on this year&#8217;s academy including dates and locations, and have a look at what you can be doing in the gallery of high-res photos below.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/mercedes-amg-driving-academy-picks-up-dates-for-2010-adds-sls-a\/%GalleryURL%\">AMG Driving Academy at Lime Rock Park<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/2411232\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/01_amgdrivinglrp_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/2411234\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/02_amgdrivinglrp_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/2411235\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/03_amgdrivinglrp_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/2411233\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/04_amgdrivinglrp_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/amg-driving-academy-at-lime-rock-park\/2411231\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/05_amgdrivinglrp_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: Mercedes-Benz]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/mercedes-amg-driving-academy-picks-up-dates-for-2010-adds-sls-a\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Mercedes-AMG Driving Academy picks up dates for 2010, adds SLS and Pro-level courses<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/mercedes-amg-driving-academy-picks-up-dates-for-2010-adds-sls-a\/\">Mercedes-AMG Driving Academy picks up dates for 2010, adds SLS and Pro-level courses<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:01:00 EST.  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Bring it back and make it bigger, of course. That&#8217;s just what Mercedes-Benz has done with its AMG Driving Academy, a program that our own Editor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}