82 mph between two walls of ice!

[Bill Pemberton]

Wow, if you want to feel like going 150+ at Road America or Road Atlanta is a walk in the park, just watch the guys running the " Luge " at the 2022 Olympics . I feel like a super wimp after watching some of these guys, laying on their backs going down a tunnel of ice at 82 mph--------friggin insane!!

 

[Dave_W]

I don't know if it's better to do that feet-first (luge) or head-first (skeleton). I think I'd prefer to be in a bobsled, just like I prefer to have the steel shell of a car around me on track. The luge & skeleton athletes are probably the type that prefer to race motorcycles instead of cars.

 

[302BOB]

I would just prefer to get my thrills pushing My Boss as far as we want to go.....there is a RPM/SPEED limiter for a reason...........not that I'll ever get there.....

 

[JDee]

Bill, come up to the Great White North and do some ice racing. In the rubber to ice classes it's full contact racing in slow motion, lots of contact but very little damage due to relatively low speeds. But in the stud classes it's full bore flat out racing topping out in the 80mph range or so, often with close to zero visibility, the studs throw up a huge amount of chips and snow. We ran an ice race on a 5/8th mile horse track oval one year and we were seeing straightaway speeds nearing 90 mph before pitching the car sideways and scrubbing speed off into the corner. Snowbanks usually create a cushion, but that race had no snowbanks, just the wooden railings they used for horse racing. Luckily, nobody got into the rails much. Not exactly for the faint of heart!

 

[RES_22]

Passin' time in the snowy north...

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Two good friends, Tommy and Bobby Archer , did a lot of ice racing up in Minnesota , Canada, Wisconsin, etc. and I remember some of their crazy stories about the races.The stories sounded like when we were children, dumping as many kids as we could going down a big hill on our sleds. It appears the only difference is ice racing does the same thing with cars, ha. Couple of Lugers were posting close to 90 mph, so I still give those guys the edge over ice racing a car.

Closest I have come to ice racing is zero visibility racing in the rain numerous times, where the downpours was so heavy you waited to brake when you saw red dots light up in front of you.