Jaguar's Ice Academy lets drivers test their limits on a frozen lake.
February 15, 2020, 10:03 AMCatch up on the developing stories making headlines.The commands were coming fast and furious from the walkie-talkie positioned upright in the cupholder.I pressed down on the accelerator, eyes fixated on the cones ahead, and rotated the steering wheel 30 degrees to the right. The rear tires started to slide, and I instinctively jerked the wheel back, startled by the sensation of losing control and the fear of crashing into a snowbank.
"Honestly, this type of driving should be part of your driving test," Karl Jones, a race car driver and Academy instructor, told me."Not many people understand what to do ... how to react to it instinctively and quickly."The first lesson involved zigzagging, or slaloming, around a series of cones on a closed circuit in Jaguar's all-wheel-drive F-PACE SUV.
Karl and Geoff would push us harder each round --"exaggerate the curves, balance through the slalom" -- and I would get a little faster but admittedly still cautious and restrained in my technique. "The big thing here is learning how safety systems protect drivers," Ian Kitching, the Academy's global lead instructor, told me."It's reverse psychology -- we want the driver to say, 'why would I ever turn off the ABS?'"
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