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Ronnie Peterson Moves On

October 21, 2009 Blog

We couldn’t beleive it when we read it, but the Ronnie Peterson museum in Orebro is having to move out of thier premises. Established in May 2008, it has welcomed more than 14,000 visitors from across the world. Ronnie Peterson was a native of Orebro and without doubt the most famous person from the town. [...]

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Want a great corporate event? Read this..

October 9, 2009 Testimonials

Here’s what one of our corporate clients thinks about bringing his team to Ice Driver each winter: “Icedriver has become a recognised internal top reward for high performance employees. The whole experience is just light years ahead of anything we’ve done previously and that includes high profile F1 track days. Andy and his team have [...]

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Is It A Bird, Is It A Train?

October 6, 2009 Travel News

We are often asked when discusing travel routes to Ice Driver, which is best, plane or train? So we thought it would be a good idea to put up a real-life travel schedules we did on one of our site trips this year: Outward Journey 09.00 – Comparatively leisurely start from home in North Yorkshire, [...]

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Is Ice Driver A Good Drift School?

October 6, 2009 Testimonials
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The most fashionable way to drive sideways these days is in drifting. It’s become massively popular worldwide and several motorsport competitors we know are now actively involved in drift championships across Europe. So does Ice Driver make a good venue to get some practice, tuition and experience drifting during the winter? Here’s what Belgian drifter, [...]

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The New Ford Focus RS – We Like It

September 30, 2009 Ice Driver TV

Back in the summer, Andy McKenna was working on the launch of the new Ford Focus RS. 300 Bhp in a front wheel drive car sounds like an awful lot to ask and we were both sceptical about the car’s ability to put the power down without ripping front tyres apart or understeering like crazy, [...]

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Jean Ragnotti

September 28, 2009 Ice Driver TV

Time to dispell lots of myths, all in one hit. Next time someone tells you front wheel drive is boring, show then this. Our Ice Driver Ford Focus sometimes gets overlooked, but this shows you what front wheel drive is all about. Also, we’re big believers in the fact that if you can drive, you [...]

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Running In, Please Pass

September 28, 2009 Blog
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Here’s a couple of quick shots of Ice Driver’s Andy McKenna doing his day job. This time, it was a newly rebuilt Porsche 3.8 long distance racer. Freshly rebuilt, with new sequential gearbox and engine, Fraser, the car’s new owner asked Andy to jump in and put some testing miles on before his first event [...]

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Now That’s What I Call A Drill…

September 16, 2009 Blog

Probably the number one question we’re asked by guests at Ice Driver is “How do you know the ice is safe?” Given that we’ve no desire to end our days in an icy grave, you can rest assured we make sure it’s good. To give you some idea of the thickness,

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The Ice Driver Movie

September 12, 2009 Gallery
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Here’s the short movie that’s been so popular this year with everyone. Shot on the new Canon 5D Mk2 by Neill Watson and rigged out the outside of the Ice Driver BMW M3 Compact, this shows a lap of the 2009 track with McKenna behind the wheel. No promises that this year’s track will be [...]

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Andy Priaulx at Ice Driver 2008

August 11, 2009 Blog
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Back in 2008, on our old website, we talked about Andy Priaulx travelling to Ice Driver. We’ve moved over the quick notes we grabbed from him, just before the World Touring Car Championship season started that year and you can see his thoughts here:

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