80's Ice Racing | Retro Review

[@advilshenk]

Watching these videos makes me feel old and how i used to be a kid. Time seemed to fly by. Pushing 50yrs old soon

[@reallyrandomrides1296]

I'm right there with ya man! I know how you feel.

[@chaseman94]

The Heat is On and the video is about ice racing. Props to whoever at Motorweek picked that song for this segment.

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Because when you’re racing and competing against the opponent! The heat is definitely on!

[@TheVonMatrices]

At -23°F, I'm sure those cars have their heaters turned up to maximum.

[@KenanTurkiye]

That's a good catch, I was too busy trying to identify the model of the cars with tears on my eyes seeing their slow destruction. : )

[@JohnMachado24]

Lol, hopefully someone got fired for this!

[@artoodiitoo]

If you dont have the heat on, the windshield will freeze : D

[@aronbennett4760]

God bless Motor Week. I never get tired of watching their program.

[@DonkeyKong2222]

Amen. And the fact that they added their Retro Review makes it even sweeter.

[@artoodiitoo]

I remember going to watch ice racing many times as a kid in the 80s and 90s on a local ice track in Finland, many Beetles and Fiat 850s with crazy long spikes and tuned engines (and a lot of dents) going around. Great fun! Later had some unofficial "racing" on the same ice where we plowed our own track, I had a Fiat 127 with spiked front tires, and it spat flames through a motorcycle muffler, raced against a Lada that got stuck on every lap in the same patch of snow, and some unrecognizable Datsun sedan with bullbars. Crazy!

[@quentinwooten30]

A "best motoring" vibe going on here

[@jareknowak8712]

Winter time on Tsukuba.

[@McBeamer94]

Yep, totally! Reminds me of that snowy "Tsukuba 1990" video!

[@creamy9000]

would love to see a segment on lemons racing

[@nothanksguy]

Reminds me of a Christmas Eve I spent with some friends 5 years ago. A heavy snow and ice storm hit the town around mid-afternoon, and as Santa flew overhead me and the boys were at the sports stadium parking lot doing about 60 MPH drifts

[@DonkeyKong2222]

Hell yeah! We used to do this every winter many years ago. I had an old Accord that I used. Great times.

[@liverush24]

I see MK1 Fiestas, Skoda Estelles, MK2 Capris, Mk1 Civics.

[@jareknowak8712]

+ Mini, Chevy Nova, BMWs.

[@liverush24]

@@jareknowak8712 Yep.

[@mirisch64]

@@liverush24 And a Lada! 1:33

[@liverush24]

@@mirisch64 Yeah. I missed that one.

[@quattroTorsen]

My favourite activity in the winter indeed 😃

[@richierich859]

Great timing with the freezing temperatures we have since a couple of days here in Canada 🇨🇦 😅

[@liverush24]

I learned how to drive on sheet ice in that same year. It's great fun. Especially with rear wheel drive.

[@TermlessHGW]

With rwd on ice it's not driving. It's fooling around.

[@liverush24]

@@TermlessHGW It was definitely fooling around. It was great fun.

[@artoodiitoo]

I could make a Mercedes 190 diesel powerslide on ice, must have been really slippery : D

[@timhanna4700]

I remember going to a race on Lake Phalen in St Paul Minnesota during the St Paul winter carnival back in 78 or so. Damn I’m getting old. Great memories and I swear the ice was 6 feet thick then.

[@davidjames2910]

What a mix of cars - I didn't know Skoda even sold the Estelle in Canada!

[@scottyg7284]

I was going to add the same about the Skoda, I did see a lada when I was near lake simcoe in 1996 but never a Skoda!

[@ianmcgee9945]

They sold the Estelle in Canada for a few years in the mid 80's, but I don't think many were sold. One of my high school teachers had one!

[@JJVernig]

First they complain the betacam's (videocamera) did have a hard time in the low temperatures, and 1:45 they really break the tube, you see the tail! Nice vid!

[@TheVonMatrices]

I'm not sure what you're talking about. In the crash, the camera got pointed at the sun and overexposed the sensor, which is the streak you're seeing.

[@AaronSmart.online]

@working_country ___ yeah, that's an artefact of tube-based image sensors (vidicon, etc.), this is definitely not a solid state camera. They were still widely used in TV production at the time as broadcast quality CCD cameras weren't really there yet. Pointing them at the sun directly could potentially cause permanent damage, but it depends on many factors.

[@bwxmoto]

3:09 Hey it's my first car! 1980 Datsun Nissan 200SX (yeah it had both badges!). It was terrible in the snow LOL.

[@lutherdrayton6535]

Yeah, that's funny my best car I ever had in the whole wide world and I'm like I'm pushing almost close to 60 as in 1980 Ford fiesta had a carbureted motor 1.6 claim body I put a camera a spoiler in the front and she'll pull over snow on 4th gear 5th gear if I got stuck so light I could pull it out she didn't have a whole bunch of horsepower but when you put it down I should got down carbureted with made by Holly and Weber imagine that look it up but you put it down a second gear 3rd gear and she's gone so only a four-speed don't make those no more I

[@Bandrosonk]

I was hoping you guys were gonna be in Milton NH. I used to love going to the ice races as a kid!

[@KenanTurkiye]

If only them ''crazies'' knew how gradualy valuable them ''11-12-13-14'' year old cars were to get in our times. Some things are just not worth freezing your betacams off. :) Special cars/carts should be built for scrap'em races like these. I'm been sentimental, don't mind me, I love older cars.

[@AaronSmart.online]

Can't save them all! And cars just didn't last as long back then, most of these were probably already rotten and barely roadworthy

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@AaronSmart.online You are right Aaron, it's just I got sentimental thats all. Btw, I believe cars of older generations lasted better than modern cars. But I do get your point, they were probably not worth saving at the time they were made ice-dodgem-racers. : )

[@TheVonMatrices]

@@AaronSmart.online Especially Canadian cars that have been mostly eaten by salt.

[@danebeck7900]

There are still survivors out there, some in surprisingly good shape.

[@paulomedina953]

Great I was an ice race driver for Eurospeed for many seasons of that track in Minden ,I think I started in 2004 up to 2010,beautiful town for all kinds of winter sports.

[@dcanmore]

surprised to see a Skoda (1:36 blue car)

[@mattdavis9601]

Canada had much weaker emissions laws than the US did so they got all sorts of iron that we never did. Skodas, Lada Signets, Lada Nivas, early Hyundais, etc.

[@DeLorean4]

Those poor Mini Coopers and Fiestas... and that Mercury Capri.

[@reallyrandomrides1296]

My how times have changed. Back then, once cars were 10 years old, they were ready for the scrap heap. Today, they're still worth $10,000 or more and can probably go another 10 or 15 years! Not to mention, in these Covid times, it's hard to find any car, new or used, regardless of price. But if one was to get a car for ice racing, it would probably mean getting a rusted out late 1980s or early 1990s car, so at least 30 years old!

[@roysjsg]

I remember the chevy chevette...that car pushed through snow when no other car would

[@MrDDawson]

Then how many years later did Top Gear USA do ice racing. Motorweek, always first.

[@donswier]

So much fun! Almost all racing would improve by reducing both mechanical grip and aero.

[@jareknowak8712]

SKODA! ❤ - the poormans 911 Turbo S! - every GM owner wet dream!

[@runoflife87]

Definitely not as old as other cars and dangerous to drive lol.

[@jareknowak8712]

@@runoflife87 I learned how to drive in one, i would not call it dangerous. Look at the thumbnail - whos leading? :)

[@mirisch64]

@@runoflife87 да там ещё и пятёрка засветилась на 1:33

[@IROCMAN666]

1:36, is it a Wartburg (blue car) ?

[@AaronSmart.online]

Skoda 120 or 125

[@IROCMAN666]

@@AaronSmart.online Possible, it is surprising to thind a Skoda in Canada.

[@AaronSmart.online]

@@IROCMAN666 The Skoda 120 and 130 were sold in Canada from 1982 to 1989, I don't think the Wartburg was

[@IROCMAN666]

@@AaronSmart.online Ok, you learn me. I didn't know. Thank you.

[@mirisch64]

1:33 YELLOW LADA!!!

[@siemenstraffic]

2:02 Even Mr. Bean likes ice racing!

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@ianmcgee9945]

I can't speak for how well this one did, but Minis won the championship several times in Quebec in the late 80's.

[@KingCast65]

Moosehead.... OMG..... Also 1:38 is that a pair of E28's??? Because that's as close to an E28 review as you will see on Motorweek sadly. I know they HAD to have tested them but they just don't show up on KZbin.

[@rekleif]

Looks more like a couple of Lada's.

[@jareknowak8712]

Its BMW, but im not quite sure if its e28, e12 or maybe something else.

[@rekleif]

@@jareknowak8712 Yeah, you are right about that. edit: Looks to be the BMW New Class from the 60's

[@mirisch64]

@@rekleif the yellow one definetly is.

[@Vtoq]

Sick video!

[@bigd33103]

Do they still do this??

[@boyfrmnewyork]

Ice racing is a hoot! :)

[@angel.c6350]

I'd actually like to do Ice Racing... ( If I could only live in the Northern Hemisphere. ) Also, is the Blue Car at 1:36 a Skoda ?

[@gogutzy]

time to weld that center diff! :D

[@hobbymanx9200]

Once lemons, now gemstones.

[@hobbymanx9200]

40 year old cars in 89 meant a piece of junk 40 year old cars in 2022 mean a piece of history

[@jareknowak8712]

@@hobbymanx9200 Nope, not quite. Cars from 1949 were already expensive in 1989.

[@harkin3684]

They were 15 year old cars back then, cheap and undesirable just as they are now

[@SantanKGhey1234]

Believe it or not Here in Toronto we’re getting pounded with a winter blizzard storm… all our roads are a disaster like this track right now

[@corssecurity]

How long did Adam West narrate?

[@Lianpe98]

"most people would throw them away, what else do you do with a 77 chevette" xD

[@mattdavis9601]

They make a very good boat anchor.

[@RearEngineShop]

So cool!

[@51-FS]

Looks fun

[@vladgladkov237]

Nice video

[@bobwalsh3751]

ICE RACING!!!!!

[@retrocompaq]

nicest form of racing i tried, ice racing is awesome but our gov in canada want to shut us down

[@GKMess42]

1:11 back when a 12 year old car was actually old. Now they're the norm.

[@johnbehneman1546]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I LOVE MY HOT ROD FAMILY!!!! I LOVE MY CANADIAN FAMILY!!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

[@StrangerXiii]

Well that was "cool"🥶🥶

[@KenanTurkiye]

I see what you did there : )

[@corssecurity]

Meanwhile in Winnipeg.....

[@robertcurry6413]

And Nokian tyre company is born…probably after watching this video

[@rustbeltrobclassic2512]

All the trash on the course would be a collector item of some kind today.. now I know what happened to all the mid 70's imports.. hahaha

[@robertcurry6413]

Those old bmws are collector items.

[@uesugikaru]

That course can use a zamboni! Lol

[@paulmirza2083]

Or an even better built Olympia!

[@DavidAndre657]

Show 830 | Originally Recorded 04-20-1989

[@ccright8285]

Great

[@PhillyDee215]

💢HOLY😯ICE RACING WAS REAL😎

[@mercoid]

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[@staysikth]

Wreckkkffeessttttt!

[@DavidAndre657]

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