He started with an Opel Mantra and a few guests in 2005. Today is a pretty quiet day for Eric, but there are still eight cars out driving. There are also some oval tracks and some other training tracks. So out here on the ice, we find perfect replicas, scale 1:1, of formula-1 tracks such as YAS Marina in Abu Dhabi, Circuit Paul Ricard, Nürburgring and Le Mans, and Silverstone. – Yes, many of them have already driven on the tarmac of the original tracks, and now they get to experience them in a completely different way. We’ve only copied relatively flat tracks, to give our guests something that equals the experience they can get on the original. – Oh no, says Erik in his matter-of-fact way, Monaco is a very hilly track. – But Eric: how come you don’t have the Monaco Grand Prix track here on the ice? It’s an area six times the size of Monaco. Lapland Ice Driving, run by Eric, celebrating its 15th anniversary the season 2020, rents 1,200 hectares from Sveaskog for its operations at Uddjaur. It’s difficult to grasp how big this business is. The most important thing for every driver in any situation is control. – That’s what we offer our customers, a better driving school to teach them to master their cars, whether it’s a four-wheel-drive Subaru or a Lamborghini with the engine at the back. It’s more about being able to control the car, planning every turn or incident before it happens. – But no, actually it’s not about that, about driving fast. Sorsele, Jokkmokk, Arvidsjaur and Skellefteå all have event companies for those who want to put the pedal to the metal. It’s the same for many other event companies around here, of course. The cold and ice are prerequisites for Eric Gallardo’s business. – I don’t know what to say about Arjeplog? I’ve just been here in winter, for 30 years. These days he runs Lapland Ice Driving, an event company with some of the coolest cars in the Arctic World. The author visited some training tracks in Sweden and Norway last spring.Eric came to Arjeplog thirty years ago, working his first season as a test driver above the Arctic Circle here in 1989. If this suggestion is taken up training grounds open throughout the year are required. The ad hoc group of the Ministry of Communications suggests such training also for Finland. For other licence owners training under slippery conditions is not obligatory. In Norway licence owners have to take a new "skidding" driving course two years from the date they obtained their first licence.
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Such training is obligatory for car and van drivers (b licence) provided that there is a specified training track at certain distance (80 km in Sweden, 60 km in Norway). In Sweden and Norway driving schools include training under slippery conditions in specific training areas. It may be assumed that advance training could reduce such accidents. More than one-fifth of all accidents occur on wet roads.
More than 25 per cent of all accidents in Helsinki take place under icy and snowy conditions. Accident statistics highlight this problem. Driving schools do not give much training for such conditions and the first experience is normally gained in traffic. TRAINING TRACKS FOR DRIVING ON SLIPPERY ROADS IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY LIUKKAAN KELIN HARJOITTELURADAT RUOTSISSA JA NORJASSAĮven experienced drivers-to say nothing of new licence owners-can be surprised by slippery road conditions.
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