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Petter Solberg Collection

October 10, 2011 Blog

Without doubt World Rallying’s most popular competitor, Petter Solberg has a new website online now for a complete collection of gifts and car gear to buy online. You budget may not stretch to a full size WRC car, so get yourself an accurate 1:43 replica instead. Our favourite? If you’re planning a trip to Ice [...]

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Our Latest Porsche

January 12, 2011 Blog

Good air cooled Porsche 911′s are becoming hard to find these days, especially the type of competition prepared car we use at Ice Driver. Our Ice Driving Porsche 911′s are not simple road cars, but specially prepared racing cars, modified for life on the ice. So when we were offered a really nice ex-Porsche UK [...]

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Some Useful Information For Our Guests

January 11, 2011 Travel News

For 2011, we’ve re-written two useful documents that we send out to our guests each year. The fist one is the Ice Driver Travel Guide. We’ve expanded it this year to include pretty much every way of getting to Ive Driver we can imagine. If you’re planning on traveling to us this year, you can [...]

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Ice Driver in High Definition

December 6, 2010 Ice Driver TV

If you like the Ice Driver movie on our home page, you’ll love the High Definition version we’ve just uploaded onto our YouTube channel. Shot in 2009 on the then ground-breaking Canon 5D Mk2 by Neill Watson,it shows Andy McKenna in the BMW M3 Powered Compact at speedon our private frozen lake facility. Click Full [...]

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A Great Display Of Ice Driving Skill

December 3, 2010 Ice Driver TV

Our base in the UK is in North Yorkshire, where we’ve actually had more snow than in Sweden this month! So take a look at this video as a display of driver skill. Saltburn Bank is well known locally as being hard work in winter. It’s a 40% incline with three hairpin bends that stop [...]

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Ice Driver Chooses Stilo Helmets

November 29, 2010 Blog

This year at Ice Driver we decided that the full face helmets and intercoms that had served us well since we started were really due a change, but what to choose? Historically, Peltor have been the industry standard and are indeed very good, but in recent years Stilo have been pushing into their market. When [...]

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Teaching or Learning? What Makes Ice Driver Different

October 31, 2010 Blog

The difference between learning and teaching is a subtle one at first glance. Surely they’re pretty much one and the same thing, really, and what has that got to do with driving cars and having fun sliding on a frozen lake in Sweden? A dictionary lookup puts it into perspective, so consider this a moment: [...]

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Ice Driver and the Environment

October 22, 2010 Blog

We are sometimes asked about Ice Driver and our impact on the environment, so we think it worthwhile to answer a few of the more obvious queries Firstly, the surface. Unlike most racing circuits constructed at vast expense using materials such as concrete, asphalt and other mined and excavated materials, our track is made from [...]

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Our Stig – the Real Deal

October 10, 2010 Blog

This week’s blog post about our friends in Sweden has to be about the other Stig. Never mind about Ben Collins, that’s yesterday’s news. Our Stig, with a rally driver’s surname of Ecklund, is the multi-skilled guy that’s you’re sure to meet at some point when you visit us. Stig Ecklund, or Sigge, is the [...]

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McKenna Playing with the Scooby Clinic 22B

October 5, 2010 Blog

Just a very short blog post today. No frozen water in this one, just lots and lots of vertically falling water in Yorkshire! On Sunday, Ice Driver director and chief instructor Andy McKenna jumped into Scooby Clinic owner Kev’s road going 22B Impreza. The car is used to develop performance enhancements for Scooby Clinic customers [...]

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