porsche Ice Experience 2023: Taming Canadian Winter Conditions, 101
Photo: Porsche 2023 Porsche Ice Experience - Porsche 911 • The 2023 edition of the Porsche Ice Experience took place recently.Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci, QC – This was the 13th edition of the annual event put on by Porsche, and if the number of goofy grins on participants' faces is any indication, the Porsche Ice Experience will be back next year. And the year after that, and the year after that.
But who needs to travel? We had one right here in our backyard. The experience offered to us by Porsche Canada is called Ice Trial, essentially a brief overview of other ice driving programs. At $3,750 per person, the program is spread over two days, one comprising a reception, dinner and overnight stay at the Esterel Resort and the other spent at the nearby Mecaglisse complex in Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci.
The cars on hand were all new-generation Porsche 911s with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive , and all were equipped with the 8-speed PDK gearbox. Which makes perfect sense given the point of this icy exercise: to be able to control the cars on a half-snow, half-ice surface. Our group was sent first to do the controlled skid exercise. Behind the wheel of a 911 Carrera S, drivers had to understand the distinctions between understeer and oversteer. The goal of the exercise was to keep the car skidding around a central point without stopping. Thank goodness for all the space available, because we quickly realized it’s not so simple keeping a rear-engine RWD car in a controlled skid.
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