Welcome to the AMG Driving Academy. It's a curriculum imported from Europe where we have one, two, and three-day courses. We'll get to experience virtually the whole line of AMG vehicles provided for you. World-class driving instructors at some of the greatest race tracks in North America. Hi, I'm Tommy Kendall. We're a four-time trans-AMP champ and host of Test Drive on Speed Channel. Welcome to the AMG Driving Academy. I hope you enjoy these short films that take you through a little bit of the curriculum that we teach at the Academy. There's an infinite number of lines on any corner or racetrack, but there's only one fastest. Now we're on the autocross course where we start tying all this stuff together. We've been working on eye work, brake technique. The whole point of line technique is you're trying to minimize how much you turn the wheel. The tighter you have to turn, the more you have to slow down. So you use every inch of row. You start out wide all the way down to the inside of the corner, which you call the apex of a clipping point. Then you drift all the way out. You have a turn in cone. You have an apex or a clipping cone, which is the low point of the corner. Then you have an exit cone on the exit. And so it's kind of like a big game of connected dots, literally. Obviously it's a lot more complicated than that when you start going faster. And we'll give you a little idea of the cadence how quickly this stuff happens. Exit cone, brake, threshold braking, downshift, turning cone, trail brake, ease off the brake, look for the apex cone, pick up the exit cone, feed in throttle. And that is one lap of the autocross course. Now the eye work is what's so important and you don't want to target fix it. So as I'm approaching this apex cone, I switched to my peripheral vision. I already looking way out here for the exit because if you've even throttleed the course starts to use a broad, you want to pick that up as soon as possible. Same thing here, I turn in here, but I'm always looking way over there for the apex cone. As I approach the apex cone, I'm looking for the exit cone. It's exaggerated here on the autocross course, so tight. But it's a good exercise because if you spend too much time thinking about what you just did, you're way behind on what's coming up. Now the apex is based on your tightest point on the corner and you can have early apex, kind of mid apex or late apex. This corner here is kind of classic late apex. Clipping point is way around the corner. And so the point of that is this corner is so long, you don't want to exit way out there. So you move the apex around depending on what's coming up next in the course. If straightaway speed is really important, late apex is exactly what you want. So leading onto a straightaway like this one, a late apex is important. This is also what's called increasing radius, meaning the corner opens up as you go through it. Early apex, they're not as common, but if you early apex in a corner that should be a late apex, you're going to end up running out of road and you're going to be getting to the end of the road and you're going to be jerking out of the throttle, trying to keep the car on the track. When your competitors, if they've set it upright, they might have had to slow down a little bit more entering the corner, but they're going to be feeding in throttle and building speed all the way onto the straightaway while you're getting out of the gas, trying to keep it on the racetrack. This is literally a life's work, but once you start breaking it down, it kind of is like a big game that connects the dots where you have the turn end point, the apex, and the back out or exit point. As if you didn't know, all the content is filmed on a close course by professional drivers who do not try those on public roads. Always wear your seatbelt and drive responsibly.