bretti_kivi
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Icetrack 2020 is coming. There are some changes for this year, primary amongst them being it mutating into a three-weekend event. The weekend of 1+2 Feb 2020 is the one for the A2 group. There will be additional events on the weeks before and afterwards.
I expect to be able to offer driving someone else's car for at least one weekend, and it may be possible to do all sorts of other stuff now. Like seriously cool rally stage stuff, but I need to gauge car and instructor costs and interest on that one before saying much more.
However: spaces are going to be *tight* on that A2 weekend; I think I'm already at 20 cars and it's only just June.
I'll publish the video from last year shortly. If you're interested, please let me know either here or email icetrack2020 at gmail dot com.
A note on costs: something similar to 2019 is likely. For driving someone else's car, the cost is likely to be around €1000, which will include hotel, food, transfers, drive time, instruction and the first €150 of fuel. Those cars will likely be front, rear and awd, and also some will have studs, others rally spikes. As a learning tool for grip and its effect, it won't get much better than this. We've asked for a large "freifläche" - so an empty iced space - to do more safety stuff and practice donuts etc.
For driving your own car, Finnlines cabin prices have just been published: apparently, it's €624 for four in a cabin - *return* - including car from Travemünde to Helsinki. That's €300 for a car with two people or €150 return for a driver.
Assume €700 for the weekend - 200 track, 200 hotel, 150 food package, and another €150 for fuel and you're not far off. You also get a great springboard for other adventures, for example up north to watch the lights, spend some time in Helsinki, or go wandering in deep, deep snow.... your choice
Details from me, I'll push more here as I have them, I need to talk to Trackmeister and my hotel guy before I go much further.
- Bret
I expect to be able to offer driving someone else's car for at least one weekend, and it may be possible to do all sorts of other stuff now. Like seriously cool rally stage stuff, but I need to gauge car and instructor costs and interest on that one before saying much more.
However: spaces are going to be *tight* on that A2 weekend; I think I'm already at 20 cars and it's only just June.
I'll publish the video from last year shortly. If you're interested, please let me know either here or email icetrack2020 at gmail dot com.
A note on costs: something similar to 2019 is likely. For driving someone else's car, the cost is likely to be around €1000, which will include hotel, food, transfers, drive time, instruction and the first €150 of fuel. Those cars will likely be front, rear and awd, and also some will have studs, others rally spikes. As a learning tool for grip and its effect, it won't get much better than this. We've asked for a large "freifläche" - so an empty iced space - to do more safety stuff and practice donuts etc.
For driving your own car, Finnlines cabin prices have just been published: apparently, it's €624 for four in a cabin - *return* - including car from Travemünde to Helsinki. That's €300 for a car with two people or €150 return for a driver.
Assume €700 for the weekend - 200 track, 200 hotel, 150 food package, and another €150 for fuel and you're not far off. You also get a great springboard for other adventures, for example up north to watch the lights, spend some time in Helsinki, or go wandering in deep, deep snow.... your choice
Details from me, I'll push more here as I have them, I need to talk to Trackmeister and my hotel guy before I go much further.
- Bret