Posted Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 10:02pm
Driving experiences rarely come more surreal than sliding a car on ice. Step foot on an icy sidewalk and you’ll be slipping and sliding all over the place – but somehow a high-performance vehicle can dance over a similar surface at high speed.
Patrik Sandell knows a thing or two about driving fast cars in deepest winter. Once a Junior World Rally champion, these days he’s working with DirtFish to show anyone – whether a complete novice or professional drivers – how to experience the unreal sensation of gliding a Subaru WRX between snowbanks on the frozen Dollar Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin.
“It’s how all Scandinavian drivers start,” explains Sandell, who became Junior world champion in 2006. “It’s where I learned the first basics of car control and rallying. For me, it’s the best place to learn to handle a car and eventually become a rally driver.”
