Ice Racing Anyone?
Back in the day on a winters evening, a mate and I used to set up a couple of cones in the middle of a cul-de-sac at the bottom of a hill and do 'pursuit' style races on an ice oval.
I used to race my Schumacher XLS/Procat with bold tyres - usually narrows on the front and mediums on the back. He would race a Tamiya TA01 Celica with worn rally block tyres.
The art was holding a perfect powerslide all the way around with very smooth inputs. Grip was obviously so low that there was no point putting a hot motor in so the standard Tamiya 540s were perfect for the job and out modest 1200/1300/1400 nicads lasted around ten minutes each.
It was great, simple fun.
So my question is, does anywhere hold a more formal race of a similar nature? Whilst a frozen car park is probably easy to come by at times, it's probably a bit unreliable for organising an event, so perhaps an ice rink would work perfectly?
What do you think?
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