Please remember to check out the Event Calendar to see what’s coming up.

Do you have a check engine light glowing on your Audi’s dashboard? Do your brakes make noise? Have you wanted to learn how to change your pads and rotors? Can you change a tire safely? When an idiot light comes on, do you know what it means?

The North Atlantic Audi Club is sponsoring a vehicle maintenance/checkup event on July 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 7 Appleleaf Drive in Bedford NH, the home of our vice president, Mike Collier.

The purpose of this event is to teach some basic vehicle maintenance skills.

Topics to be covered will include:
brakes, fluids, belts, hoses, tires, wipers and other vehicle components and systems that can affect safety, dependability and/or emissions.

A neglected vehicle can be dangerous to drive. We’ll check your car for mechanical and safety issues and discuss what to do about them. Learning to perform basic maintenance in your garage will save you money in the short term; a well-maintained car is also less likely to experience an expensive, inconvenient, or dangerous breakdown as it ages. We’ll put cars on a lift to inspect mechanical components, and attach a VAGCOM to the engine to look for any stored “codes”.

The event will also include a BBQ lunch. To register, send an email to Mike Collier

Karting night in Western MA, Northern CT – June 23rd

NAAC members meet up at Lime Rock for a day of spectating and taking in some great racing as well as Classic F1 cars on parade

A one day car control clinic in the East Longmeadow, MA area. Learn to control your car in emergency situations, and have fun at the same time! Held on Saturday, July 11th. Sign up today!

The March, 2009 issue of Hubcentric is now available. Download it to read more about our winter driving school, upcoming events, and what makes this club work.

Congratulations to our new Directors, Douglas Cowieson and Scott Downs, and to re-elected Director Noah Daniels.

NAAC would like to thank Paul Royal and Jeff Wasilko for their service as Directors.

At the Annual meeting the new Board elected its Officers for 2009:

President: Mike Kelly
Vice President: Michael Collier
Secratary: Douglas Cowieson
Treasurer: Jason Tooth

Thanks to everyone who voted and came to the annual meeting.

Thanks to all of the students, instructors, and volunteers who helped make this school a success. We had perfect conditions (soft, fluffy snow banks, tons of ground cover, and cold temperatures). We hope we’ll see you at another event soon, or at the winter school next year.

If you have photos or videos from the school that you would like us to link to, please email the eventmasters (you certainly have our addresses by now).

Jeff Wasilko has posted some photos from the school already.

The time trial results are available here

Please take some time to read the biographies of the candidates for Director.

Welcome to the North Atlantic Audi Club’s website. If you are checking us out after seeing the WCVB Chronicle episode on Surviving Winter, here is a bit of information about our club.

We are a non-profit educational organization dedicated to teaching people about their cars, in areas ranging from detailing to maintenance to safe driving in winter and high-performance driving on a racetrack. You don’t need to own an Audi to join or to participate in our events. We are a chapter of the Audi Club North America and if you join the ACNA and live in the states we represent (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Rhode Island) you’re automatically a member of NAAC.

We host numerous events during the year, including winter driving schools, car-control clinics, and a high performance driver education event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. We also hold detailing clinics, do-it-yourself maintenance clinics, and monthly social dinners and gatherings. The best way to find out about upcoming events is via our Event calendar or by joining our announce list (another way to join the announce list is simply to email us at info@naaclub.org and ask to be added.)

Unfortunately, our February 23-24 Winter School (the last one for 2008) is currently full with an extensive waitlist. We are offering a Car Control Clinic on April 26th (with others on July 26th and September 20th) where
drivers of all experience levels can learn many of the same skills in similar exercises to those Anthony experienced on the Chronicle segment. The Clinic will be held in one of the parking lots of New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Loudon, NH) and combines classroom sessions and exercises with an instructor to guide students through the exercises.
If you are interested, registration is open . Please email info@naaclub.org with any questions.

If you’re disappointed about missing this year’s winter driving schools, stay tuned for next year’s Winter Driving Schools; we won’t know the dates until August or September, but we intend to have one in January and one in February, at least. These schools tend to fill up by Thanksgiving, so register early (and often!).

In addition, our high-performance driver education school on May 19th and 20th at NHMS is open for registration . This school does not require any prior experience but takes drivers to the next level of ability in car control, smoothness, awareness, and technique.

Thank you for taking the time to visit us!

The day following our January winter driving school, a camera crew from WCVB Chronicle (Boston area Channel 5) came up to film a segment in a show with the theme of “Surviving Winter”. It features Tim O’Neil teaching WCVB’s correspondent, Anthony Everett, the finer points of car control on snow & ice. The vehicle featured in the segment was generously supplied by Vadim Makhlis, WDS sponsor and sales manager for Herb Chambers Audi Burlington. The segment will air at 7:30 pm on February 15. Tune in and check it out!

Several NAAC members served as “support crew” during the filming. Here are some photos taken by Peter Barada and Paul Royal.

Some information on the episode is available on the Chronicle website