Yesterday(Saturday the 17th) was the annual ice race in Rosetown Saskatchewan. The temperature was about -13° celsius, but the wind was up and being in an open field there was no reprive from the it. Nevertheless the race must go on!
If you missed my last 2 blogscheap race car and race car preparations then you wouldn't have sern these crazy tires we use to race on the ice with.
This is my friend Donovan doing some repairs between rounds.
You may have to expand this panaramic view of the field we we're in.
In the never ending quest for speed we removed the front fenders from the lowered Civic to fit the larger more aggresive tires.
The green Pontiac Sunfire seemed to be out simply to bump into other faster cars. Twice it appeared to intentionly pile into the green Honda, poor car is really getting banged up☹
I'll do a full feature on this car soon. It's had quite a life so far.
The pit area was full of activity despite the cool temps. There was a food vendor on site, they built a wind break with some boards.
A Pontiac Grand Am was dressed up as Lightning McQueen. It was a crowd favorite.
Every car was trailered to and from the event.
A little door ding. Not likley from a shopping cart🛒.
So how did we do in our "left for dead Honda"? We had 4 different drivers out to have a good time and the car performed flawlessly! It wasn't fast enough to claim the title of "King of The Ice" but we brought home $1200 in winnings!
Next year we will have to up the game a bit more!
Check out this short video I took. At one point I was a little concerned for my life!
I'll try to get some pictures and videos from my old computer of my old racing days with a full on race car for some future posts. Also I'll do a feature on the Tahitian Green Civic above.
As always all photos are from my dirty old Samsung Galaxy S6. I'm @edthecanadian embracing the frozen Canadian winter!