Announcement of "Snow Road Experience Driving Lesson" 1/30 (Sat)-1/31 (Sun)

-Snow road driving experience to improve snow road driving skills! !! ~

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January 12, 2016
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Kanto Regional Head Office Saku Management Office

NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office At Saku Management Office (Saku City, Nagano Prefecture), "Snow Road Experience Drive Lesson" is held at Joshin-Etsu Expressway Sakudaira Parking Area (PA) "Saku Ski Garden Parada" Will be held in.

In order to improve our customers' snowy road driving skills, you can experience a free drive lesson on a special course with an instructor (professional driver) on board to give lectures on points to note when driving on snowy roads. Local mascot characters along the Joshinetsu Road and our original PR character for winter road "Dr. Mammoshi" also participated. There are lots of fun projects! Please join us.

*The photo shows the content of last year's implementation

[Snowy road experience: Comparison of studless tires and normal tires Test drive experience! ! ] Image image
[Snowy road experience: Comparison of studless tires and normal tires Test drive experience! ! ]
Image of [Professional driver talk show]
[Professional driver talk show]

Event contents

Date and timeFrom Saturday, January 30, 2016 to Sunday, January 31, 2016 10:00 to 15:30
VenueSaku Ski Garden "Palada" North Parada 3rd Parking Lot Access: Attachment [PDF: 262KB]
*Joshinetsu Expressway Sakudaira Smart IC directly connected
Implementation content
  • At a special course, drive a normal or studless tire equipped vehicle (for normal riding) respectively and experience the difference in the behavior of the vehicle when operating "sudden" steering wheel and "sudden" brake
  • Talk show held by instructor (professional driver), winter driving lesson by JAF
  • Local characters along the Joshinetsu Expressway also participate
  • Exhibition of panels (introduction of safe driving on winter Expressway) and patrol cars
  • Holding mini concerts and street performances at the event square
QualificationThose who have a normal driver's license or higher (* Drinking people cannot participate.)
The number of participantsFirst 50 people (each day)
Participation feeFree (However, transportation expenses to the site are excluded.)
Reception methodOn the day, fill out the application form at the reception located beside the course
Other
  • We also lend out shoes for changing shoes from ski shoes and store ski wear.
  • Depending on the weather conditions and conditions of the snowy road experience course, the holding time may be shortened or canceled.

Instructor profile

Image of Norihiko Katsuta

Norihiko Katsuta
1993 Chubu Area Series Champion
1993 All Japan Rally debut
2007 All Japan Rally Championship 2nd overall
2008 All Japan Rally Championship
Series overall champion
2009 All Japan Rally Championship
2nd overall in series
2010-2013 All Japan Rally Championship
Series overall champion
2014 All Japan Rally Championship 2nd overall
2015 All Japan Rally Championship 2nd overall

Image of Mr. Nobuhiro Murata

Nobuhiro Murata
1999 Stock Car S2000 Class
Series champion
2007,2008 Super Taikyu Series 2 class 2nd in the series
2009 Super Taikyu Series
2 class series champion
2010, 2011 Super Taikyu Series
2 class 2nd in the series
2012 Vitz Race East Japan Series
champion
2013 Super Taikyu Series
4 class series 5th
(Round 2 Korean Inje victory)
2015 Super Taikyu Series ST-4 class Class ranking second place

Image of Mr. Atsushi Shimatani

Atsushi Shimatani
2007, 2008 Sendai Highland R&R championship
2008 Ebisu Rotary Festa winner
2008 Tohoku NO.1 final match win
2004-2009 RX-7 Meeting Winner
2009 RE WARS Tsukuba 2000 Winner
MAZDA TUNING FESTA 2013 Winner
WTAC2013 PRO AM class 5th
2015 Super Taikyu Series ST-4 class Class ranking second place
WTAC2015 PRO AM class 6th

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