Extraordinary new NASCAR race on frozen lake

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NASCAR has announced its European bid volition clasp its season-opening contention connected a frozen water successful Finland adjacent March.

The race, scheduled for March 4-5, volition beryllium held successful Rovaniemi, the tract of the yearly Arctic Lapland Rally.

While the rally stages traverse the water and forests surrounding the town, the NASCAR Euro Series volition vie connected a closed circuit connected the lake.

Ice races are communal passim North America and Europe - peculiarly successful countries surrounding the arctic circle.

The thought for an crystal contention was archetypal sprouted aft the car completed an crystal trial successful Val Thorens, France past March.

The car ran precisely the aforesaid instrumentality it would connected bitumen, prevention for a acceptable of skinnier, studded snowfall tyres.

It was driven by NASCAR Euro Series president Jerome Galpin, who said the car performed "surprisingly well" connected ice.

"That was ace fun! To beryllium honorable we didn't expect this archetypal trial connected crystal to spell truthful well," helium said.

"The car has a large balance, truthful it is precise casual to plaything astir connected the ice.

"It is astir apt among the astir versatile contention cars ever built, capable to contention connected each way and each surface, successful each condition."

Galpin said contempt lone 1 time of testing, it came adjacent to breaking the thigh grounds for a rear-wheel-drive car.

The NASCAR Euro Series volition vie astatine six title contention meetings, to beryllium held successful the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy and Belgium.

The NASCAR organisation volition adjacent twelvemonth observe 75 years since its inception.

The athletics has been undergoing a diversification of sorts implicit the past respective seasons - it's returned to its roots by racing connected ungraded astatine Bristol successful Tennessee, and adjacent twelvemonth volition contention connected a thoroughfare circuit for the archetypal clip successful Chicago.

It besides relocated a accepted pre-season accumulation contention from Daytona to the Los Angeles Colosseum.

A modified NASCAR volition besides vie successful the iconic Le Mans 24hr for the archetypal clip successful decades successful June arsenic portion of the Garage 56 entry.

The Garage 56 is an invite-only programme tally by the ACO - governing assemblage of the Le Mans 24hr - for cars that don't acceptable the rules for immoderate of the different classes. It is ineligible to triumph the contention outright.

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