California Superbike School India 2027: dates, venue, fees

Two batches at Chennai in January 2027

California Superbike School India has set its 2027 dates. Two back to back weekends, January 26 to 28 and January 30 to February 1, run at the Madras International Circuit near Sriperumbudur, outside Chennai, according to the school's own India website. Both batches offer the same sequence, Levels I, II and III across three days, with Level IV available as a fourth day for riders who have finished Level III.

The fee for Levels I, II and III together is ₹1,00,000, and Level IV costs ₹1,50,000, the school's site states. That is a jump from the last time Autocar India tracked the pricing. When CSS returned to India in February 2023 after a gap of more than three years, Levels 1 to 3 cost ₹75,000 and Level 4 cost ₹1.30 lakh. By January 2025, the same combination had gone up to ₹80,000 and ₹1.35 lakh. Riders can bring their own motorcycle or hire one of the school's track prepped bikes, and booking is through the school's website for each batch separately.

What Levels I to III and IV actually teach

This is not an off-road or adventure course. It is a cornering school, and the beat's test here is whether the drills change how you ride on track, not whether they prepare you for gravel. A rider account published on BikeWale after attending a recent session at the Madras International Circuit, on a race prepped TVS Apache RTR 310, describes Level 1 built almost entirely around throttle control, riding a full session in fourth gear with no brakes, learning to open the throttle smoothly and continuously rather than snapping it. Level 2 moves to vision drills, picking out a fixed reference point on the track surface, a crack or a scrape mark, to decide exactly where to turn in, and widening peripheral vision so a rider is not staring only at the apex.

Each drill follows the same pattern on the day, a short classroom briefing, a track session with a coach riding ahead or behind, and a one to one debrief after. CSS itself describes Level 3 as adding hook turns, power steering body position and hip flick, and Level 4 as individual coaching built around whatever a rider is still working on. None of this touches braking in the dirt, standing on pegs or reading loose surfaces, the staple of the off-road schools this desk usually covers. For a rider who already owns a performance motorcycle and wants to understand why it does what it does mid corner, that narrow focus is the point.

Getting there from India

Chennai is reachable by direct flight from every metro, so this is one of the few global benchmark schools on the beat that needs no visa, no carnet and no border crossing. Riders travelling from outside Tamil Nadu should budget for flights, two to three nights near the circuit, and the course fee itself. There is no quota or waitlist mentioned on the booking page, but the two fixed weekends mean a rider has to plan dates well ahead of January.

Sources

• California Superbike School India, schedule and fees
• California Superbike School India 2025 dates announced, Autocar India
• California Superbike School returns to India for 2023, Autocar India
• California Superbike School 2026, Level 1 and 2, BikeWale