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Prepare to release the inner child! Public piste-basher driving courses!

Attention big kids! Have you ever wanted to drive a giant track-borne metal monster with four times the horse power of a land rover? Has the same price tag as a Ferrari? Meet 4 whole tons of awesome! I am of course referring to the mighty piste basher!
 
Courses for enthusiasts wanting to learn the ways of the noble piste basher driver are becoming steadily more popular; resorts like Meribel, Serre Chevalier offer courses as part of the winter activities program, and Chamonix hosted the French Piste Basher Championships in 2013.
 
They might be slow (they top out at a modest 22Kph) but that certainly didn’t stop former world champion formula one driver, Alain Prost, and downhill ski champion now rally driver, Luc Alphand, going head to head in the motorised roller coasters.
 
So that’s one lifelong ambition now within easy grasp of man-children and tom-boys everywhere! Now if only someone would do a wrecking ball and a JCB course... We can dream after all.
 
Piste basher school
London bus driver school eat your heart out! Piste basher driving school needs nerves of steel. Image courtesy of Chris Goodyer on flickr.
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