Ice Racing Anyone?

[Groomi]

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?

[racingdwarf]

Think now days most people would think of all that snow packed into their cars and stay nice and warm at home.

When I started racing in the 80s the whole club would turn out and dig a track in the snow on the industrial estate car park we used in the winter, club would be as normal with about 30 of us racing hotshots, hornets etc 540s and manual speed controllers, so not to much to worry about. One guy put drawing pins through his tyres then filled them with expanding foam!At the end of the day I would go home and put the car on our boiler in the kitchen...to thaw nothing would stop us back then mud snow or even the 87 storm, just started the day with dads and chainsaws

[Skelbo]

I used to do ice karting at Oxford ice rink in the early 90s and would also take my Procat down there. Never anything formal but fun nonetheless.

[mark christopher]

Sounds like you need to Google rc drifting

[bigred5765]

we use to play/race on a frozen pond near us
we use to put drawing pins through Bald tyres and rag the hell out the cars, dangerous but wicked fun

[johnnygibbon]

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...highlight=snow

a funny day at bmrcc that was

how about renting an ice ring but it wouldnt be much different to renting chadderton use big reds tyres and seal your shell up
bet it would be mental

[bigt]

Frozen dirt tracks an absolute hoot with the nitro

[Origineelreclamebord]

Ice racing... I would watch out with putting metal spikes in the tires with open-wheel cars and brushless motors That said, It's always been fun driving in the snow and on ice by myself, and in the last year and a half I've been experiencing how much nicer racing is. I'm imagining how it'd be racing in those conditions... it'd be an absolute blast!

[mrspeedy]

We've been running what we call a 'drift series' in the summer months for a few years now. Originally christened 'The ice racing' championship its now morphed into a rallycross type of race.

But basically we run with zero grip, mountain bike inner tubes cut up and stretched over foam tyres, and everyone has to use the same tyres to keep it fair.

The cars we race with are micros with saloon type bodies mounted up. The skill factor is very high, requiring steady throttle control and aggressive steering input ... great fun though and very very close racing.

Here's a vid from our last Christmas bash - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlrxOU6_IMI

[alex97]

1/10 buggy ice track would be great and so much fun.

[Chris Larner]

I've done something like that series before and it ends up making you feel very dizzy and sick until you get used to it.