What exactly is ice racing? Just picture a racetrack but surrounded by snowbanks and sparkling with an ice surface that tests every ounce of driver control. Drivers navigate tight turns and long straightaways, while competing against other drivers, constantly adjusting their grip on the frozen surface and challenging their driving skills in ways that dry pavement could never offer.
Each winter the Canadian Auto Sport Club (CASC) organizes a six-round championship in the town of Minden, some 3 hours north of Toronto. The parking lot of the local Fairgrounds is flooded and groomed like a hockey rink, and gearheads of all kinds arrive to compete. There’s different classes for two-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive vehicles, plus a category for those using studded tires on the slippery surface.
The racing looks like a blast, and are a cost effective series. But the events run Saturday and Sunday for six consecutive weekends (including Valentines Day) from late January until early March. Just a bit too much and too far for city boys like Demaras Racing.
Be easy to do up here on the ice roads!
When it snows 10cm here, the entire city shuts down.
So funny 😂
Here’s a shameful statistic. On Wednesday night it dripped 15 vm of snow on Toronto and therefore on Thursday everything was shut down. Schools, businesses even our expensive new streetcar. Total shutdown.
10 years to THE DAY our stupid old Mayor Mel Lastman called in the army to dig Totonto out of a similar snowstorm. 15 cm.
I think people in Manitoba and Alberta are embarrassed people from Totonto actually count as Canadians.
Oh i don’t know about embarrassed lol but yeah up here 10-15 cm is a regular day, they might close schools if we got 30 cm or more in one shot but 10-15 is peanuts 🥜
I’m excited to get to Toronto some day and take it all in!
Looks like fun racing. Too bad you can’t participate.
I may have found another option closer to home. Will follow up next week.
And no… its not the Walmart Patking Lot 500
There’s a Walmark Parking Lot 500?
Every night when it snows… until the cops show up!
We don’t get enough snow. All the Walmart parking lots have surveillance cameras with loudspeakers to keep gangs from gathering.
Up here there’s plenty of snow. They plow the parking lot early (during a storm) so there’s always an inch of fresh powder for you to do donuts on.
Then you can treat the police to a donut on the way to the calaboose.