Jan 23 - Ice driving school (Audi, BMW, Porsche, Subaru, VW)

[TT]

Well, I can finally add a 2006 section to my meetings' one because I had the first one this Friday. It was again a day organised over at asphalte.ch, that local forum with which we put together this little drive back in 2005: http://www.swisscarsightings.com/asp...tobre2005.html

Anyway, this time it was to have some ice driving lessons. I would have preferred to be at the wheel actually, but tok the decision too late so I was just the official photographer, which was plenty cool enough.. A marvellous sunny day deep into the Alps, 1600 meters in the Grand San Bernard vallery, right before the tunnel going to Italy, an ice/snow course, stunning scenery and great ladies and gentlemen! it was great fun!

The wake up was at 5.45 am, I met with some of the guys on the way, one of them beeing our leo and the drive up there was quite fun, even if only the last few km could be called "mountain road". A bit sad to follow an RS4, M3 and Impreza in my poor 320, btu who cares
then the fun begun, and instead of bother you with lot of text, let's bring on the pics!

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12 cars were allowed and here they are (the new Toledo is one of the instructors' cars)


Here are the cars taking part:

Audi B5 S4, an agressive lady at the wheel! She was really 100% focused on it!


Audi B6 S4, quite amazing car, really on rails!


Audi RS4 B5, thanks to its power (it's also chipped BTW), it can slide quite well


After the Audis, the BMW. First of them, this lovely E39 M5 (already seen in my indepths)


And three E46 M3!




Finally, a 3.0 Z3


More German cars, Porsche this time, in the shape of this 996 C4


And pierre's 996TT


leo's Subaru! Thanks for the ride dude!!


And even a brave lady with her Polo 16v!


Enjoy!

[ARMAN]

Fantastic pics on snow TT! ... and where is your BMW drifting???

Zcoupé looks great in any angle and best shot imo is the last lineup then is the one you have in your sig

Thanx for posting, been waiting for those

[T-Bird]

looks like alot of fun was it all just snowy grass or was it on a small lake?

[TT]

It's a specially prepared ice/snow course.

[sameerrao]

Superb pictures! Thanks for sharing

[EnzoLover]

Nice pics!

And some drifting videos ?

i saw a suction mount at M5

[TT]

Yup, the M5 owner is a sucker for vids (especially tunnels LOL) and I think he filed a bit, but he terribly lack free time to edit them, so no vids atm :bah:

[FPVPSI]

What an event! I bet the RWD cars would have been a ball!

Wish we had events like that in Australia...ohh well we'll have to make do with water...

[PATo355]

Nice pictures TT , the scuby must do it pretty well .

[Toronto]

amazing pic's there TT.
looks like alot of fun, did you have any pics from inside the Subaru?

[1zippo1]

Cool pics TT, seems like a nice experience. But I would feel bad if I was there and couldn't join in...

The lady in the VW Polo is really hamering it, look at how sideways she goes!!

[stmoritzer]

Awesome pics TT!
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun
Pierre = Mr. 8) behind the steering wheel




Very nice winter-scenery, thanks for the bunch of nice photos!


edit: I guess the lady did a handbrake-drift with the FWD Polo

[manta]

awesome pics!! the bmw start with snow flying behind is really funny!!

[pzgren]

wow! looks like a 100% pure fun event! where was it held?

nice pics as always!

[AlienDB7]

:shock:
Looks like you all had a blast. Did you get a chance to take your 320 on the snow course TT?

All the high powered cars on snow covered roads must be fun!! That M3 went really sideways.