Originally Posted by
DanK
Great images. However, it gets me thinking about things entirely unrelated to photography. I grew up in the snow belt in upstate NY (Syracuse, which is the snowiest city with more than 50,000 people in the lower 48 states), so I spent a lot of time driving in snow. In those days, however, cars didn't do any thinking for you. One of the techniques for ice racing, which I had fun practicing with a Saab 900, was to yank the parking brake on as one started a sharp turn; this would throw the back wheels into a free skid, and you would just point the front wheels where you wanted to go and give it power. Now people are driving things like that Subaru in the second picture. I own a Subaru, and driving it on snow and ice is an entirely different experience--it has very sophisticated computerized control over all four wheels, and it handles snow and ice very well. Racing in one of those would be a whole different ball game, I suspect.