When the mountains in France start to cowl with snow, posh individuals from throughout descend on locations like Tignes-Val d’Isere, Portes du Soleil and Grand Massif to point out off how nice they’re at snowboarding. However snowsports aren’t the one factor you are able to do on a snow-capped alp — you too can go racing. The right automobile for this type of cold-weather motorsport might be a Lancia Delta or Ford’s unimaginable hybrid rally monster. However I’m fairly certain you possibly can have simply as a lot enjoyable in a Citroën 2CV on the snow, particularly if this movie from the Late Brake Present is to be believed.
The Citroën 2CV has simply 25 horsepower because of its tiny two-cylinder engine. That may not sound like the right automobile to take racing, however it seems that when you throw in some ice and freezing temperatures then 2CV racing can change into the happiest motorsport on the market. In the Late Brake Present movie, which you’ll be able to see for your self under, a plucky troupe of 2CV drivers from the UK drove throughout the Channel and to the Alpe d’Huez ski resort in France to participate in a spot of ice racing.
Over the course of ten races on a specifically minimize out ice observe, the sector of getting older Citroëns struggles to get above 15 miles per hour — even on the straights. As an alternative, the automobiles slide everywhere in the observe, pirouette over the packed snow and actually do their utmost to place the enjoyable again into motorsport.
As a part of the 10-race collection, there’s even an evening race that pushes the outdated Citroëns’ historical headlamps to their restrict. It’s throughout one of many night periods that Late Brake Present host Jonny Smith confesses “actually, I believe this may very well be one of the vital fulfilling motorsports I’ve ever finished, since you’re skidding and also you’re attempting to get final automobile management.”
I’m inclined to agree, because it seems like an absolute hoot! At any time when the following spherical of this unimaginable motorsport is, and regardless of the place it meets, I wish to area a Jalopnik group to see simply what it takes to win a Citroën 2CV ice race.
