Trophée Andros Series

Festival Location: Val Thorens France

Festival Type(s): Car Shows, Motor Sports Events, Winter Festivals

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Ice Racing: Automobiles

By: © Michael J. Rosen 2010

"A Full Set of Snow Tires Is Recommended."

- Michigan Ice Racing Association

The Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club called automobile ice racing "the safest and most inexpensive form of road racing available today." Watching a five-year-old vroom-vroom toy cars down a Hot Wheels freeway, most parents would dispute this claim.

Nonetheless, automobile ice racing has gained recreational popularity in Canada and the northern United States, where the possibility of ice and roadways go together the way oil spills and waterways sort of go with the coastal states. The French, however, dominate this slippery sport, hosting and invariably winning the annual Trophée Andros Series, which reinforces American feeling of inferiority, especially hearing the taunts of "Mangez mon gel!" (translation: "Eat my frost!") in that mellifluously pretentious tongue of theirs.

Without the strictures of an indoor "rink," cars can average 70 miles per hour during these outdoor races and often reach top speeds of over 100 miles per hour. Most makes and models of cars are appropriate for ice racing, except, of course, any car that someone want to drive to work the next morning.

Winter blues get you red hot? Check out www.icerace.com.

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