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Unless you’ve been living under a centrally-heated rock for the past couple of weeks, you’d know that the UK is currently in the middle of a deep freeze. Scotland has recorded its lowest temperature in 25 years, with the mercury plummeting to -23°C in Braemar in the Scottish Highlands. Even the usually snow-shy South Coast is covered in a splattering of the white stuff. And as you would expect, drivers don’t know what to do with themselves…
Video: Flat‑out on a frozen lake
Unlike in Italy, where the drivers in the Ice Challenge most certainly do. In fact, they more than know how to handle themselves on the white stuff – to the point of showing off.
Join 19Bozzy92 on the sidelines of the first round of the 2021 Challenge, held at the Ice Driving School's Livigno circuit. With temperatures dropping to -24°C, drivers wrapped up warm to race against the clock, in a style similar to Formula Challenge races. Among the contestants was Hyundai WRC driver Craig Breen, behind the wheel of a modified utility vehicle. Also skidding around the ring was a dual-engined Range Rover Evoque lookalike, a Giannini 350 GP-styled, Alfa Romeo V6-powered Ice Proto car and the ex-Snobeck Racing Opel Astra Hatchback 4WD V6. It’s certainly a site to behold, and has left us determined to perfect our snow drifting skills…
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