About BMW Performance Center West
The BMW Performance Center West offers an incredible driving experience with great cars, courses, and facilities. Knowledgeable and excellent instructors, like Cam, provide a fun and unforgettable opportunity to push the awesome cars to the limit. Customers highly recommend the 1-day M school and Performance Center Drive experiences, which include off-roading, racetrack driving, and thrilling activities like competing for fastest time and longest drift. Visitors also enjoy driving 6 M series cars on course and X5 off-road, finding the experience very good and worth recommending. The One-Day M school is described as an INCREDIBLE experience, helping drivers improve their skills through simple explanations and a progressive teaching approach. It offers a chance to learn good foundational techniques while having an amazing time across various driving activities. Many plan to take more courses, including for their children, finding the experience fun, informative, and a valuable investment.
I was able to visit this place and had the 2-hour experience which included some off-road time with some X5 M60’s, a truly impressive vehicle-I had no idea it was as capable off road. After that, it was to the speed track, a spaghetti track that had one loop coned for us where we were able to try out a few cars including M2, M4, Z4 and had a ride in a M3.
The performance center driver staff both at the off road and track are on radio with every car, so they coach you on how to take the corners etc, braking, hugging the line, etc. it was super fun. I didn’t expect it but the M2 was the tighter ride than the other except of course the M3.
I’ll likely go back...read full review
The facility, staff and of course vehicles are all top notch, I had a fantastic time; just be aware that the 2 hour session is only 90 minutes in reality, unfortunately in our case we didn’t get to drive all the cars. Make sure you pick the one you really want to drive first in the rotation!
BMW West Performance Center in Thermal, California is a great place to learn and improve one’s driving skills!
In 2018, I started to go to BMW West Performance Center to attend various driving performance events. With interest in learning and improving my driving skills, and dreams to learn more about car racing, I met instructor Byron Payne. Byron is truly an inspiring instructor. He has great knowledge about driving skills; especially in racing skills. The way he shares his racing experiences and techniques with me helps me improving my driving skills and he makes difficult concepts easy to grasp.
Byron is patient, responsive, and excellent on track coaching....read full review