Ride to Santa
Driving a car in winter on an icy road requires certain skills. However, when the car sideways enters the turn, raising a high column of snow dust, such a picture is truly captivating and mesmerizing. I would like to repeat this myself. Combining business with pleasure, you can get the skills of "winter" driving on special tracks in Lapland. Usually they are laid on frozen lakes.
With an experienced instructor, you will feel confident even when the machine changes from a straight line to a side slide, or to “unwinding”. It's easy to learn the basic technique: to brake "like a ski" by putting the car sideways and direct it exactly into the turn. After all, tires on ice and packed snow have better grip in the transverse direction than in the longitudinal direction. In this case, not only the lower contact area of the tire is involved, but also the edge of the sidewall surface. Therefore, side slip braking is much more effective than normal braking when the service brake is used.
And if you have sufficient driving experience, then driving a racing car shod in “studded tires” when there is bare ice under the wheels will leave an indelible impression for you! In the surroundings of Rovaniemi, the legends of rally racing are at your disposal - the legendary Ford Escort and Mitsubishi WRC cars. The determining factor will be the art of subtly feeling the car. Adrenaline will add a moment when you will control the car at high speeds, on slippery surfaces and find your "chip" in the passage of the track.
