BMW have announced they?re launching an on-track performance academy starting in Spring 2022. Tuition will be dished out by current and former BSB riders, over four different courses using various BMW models.

I think every motorcyclist, at some stage, should do some track riding. Not just so you can learn to get your knee down. And not just so you can send off for your ACU license. But because it makes you a better rider. And a safer rider. Because on a track, where there?s a fraction of the hazards you find on the road (pedestrians, road furniture, oncoming traffic etc.), you can focus on exploring what you and your bike are capable of. How sharply you can brake without loosing the front; what difference that bit of extra lean angle makes; how fast you can corner and how hard you can accelerate; that sort of thing.
It?s much easier (and safer) trying to learn where the boundaries are on a track, where you can bottle it once or twice and run wide if you need to. Trying to learn where those boundaries are on the road is foolhardy; if you ?run wide? on the road, you might die.

The four different courses at the new BMW Motorrad Performance Academy are all aimed at making riders faster, safer and more accomplished. Not necessarily lap record holders.

Riders new to circuit riding will start with the Level One course, and with any luck will progress through Level Two and Level Three, all the way to the M Experience, on the BMW M 1000 RR. Before they get there, stu...