Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Mazda MX5 Ice-Race 2011

Mazda opens the 2011 season on the ice in the Swedish town of Are. After the success of the MX-5 Race Open last year, Mazda is replicating the race on ice in Sweden with the MX-5 sports in recent days since the event will take place 21 to 24 February 2011. A total of 20 MX-5 modified for driving on ice and adapted to mount studded tires, will participate in the race for four hours over a distance of approximately 5 km proceeds on a frozen lake will give life to Mazda Ice Race 2011.

The lap times are around 5 minutes and many bends (well 43) are almost all to go in the second and third gears as well carry a trace very selective. The MX-5 will be led by teams from 26 participating nations, including many journalists from the automobile sector with experience in competitions, TV enthusiasts and readers who won tickets to the event in special competitions.

The four-day event in Åre, Sweden, provides two large training sessions, a qualifying session to determine the pole and starting positions, and then the race is divided into two sessions. At the deposition of snow the team that leads the most laps during the four hour race win. Tuesday, February 22 trials were held, with a first contact with the track from the drivers, Wednesday 23 will be played instead of the two endurance races with formula, the Italian Team is Claudio Galiena, Develop monthly meter that has alcunee sent photos of the circuit and that will tell us a bit 'behind the scenes of the competition.

Claudius speaks of an initial approach for the Italian team a little unfortunate, since they were penalized by a little off track in the early stages of testing. This required the replacement of the bumper, thus reducing significantly the possibility of using the shift test and optimize the time of qualifying.

But the Italian team is made up of journalists and well-trained and highly skilled pilots, in addition to Galiena fact we find two other journalists and testers very fast as the pilot Gampaolo Tenchini (known as the "Tenk") and Lorenzo Facchinetti (Automobile magazine), the other Team members are Italian Sergio Troise (sent the Messenger and the Morning) and Alessio Odinzoff (AGM), coordinator of the sports team is rather like a former rally driver Lorenzo Marini.

The temperature is always close to -20 ° C, a slippery slope and a very difficult path composed of no less than 43 turns to go in opposite lock and almost always with continuous operations of the pendulum. Many pilots and specialists from the ice in the other foreign teams, but we are sure that the Italian team will be able to assert themselves in both races scheduled for today.

We will be then linked on the developments of the race and in the meantime we send a big good luck to Claudio and the whole Team Mazda Italy.

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