[unclebilly]

I don’t do much winter driving…

My kids are ski race kids so this means we drive to and from the mountain every Saturday and Sunday… it’s 168 kms each way. It takes 105-135 minutes each way depending on road conditions.

This past week we we have had the kids training Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in addition to our normal weekend training. On Tuesday night, I had to take a bull to a feedlot for conditioning and testing… the roads were especially crappy so it was 4.5 hours round trip for a drive that would normally be 2 hours towing the stock trailer… that day was 8.5 hours behind the wheel in brutal winter conditions.

It’s not much different than track day driving. You are at the limits of traction and you need to be mindful of the other idiots on the road and focus on smooth inputs to the wheel and brakes…

I credit our winter driving experience to how well we did racing at Daytona in a tropical storm. We understood how to break in a slippery corner (under 1-2” of water) whereas the southern boys consistently locked em up in a corner and slid into the tires…