A decade of Icetrack meets. Back at Joe’s mouth

DaBoom

Worlds fastest Amish
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Kouvostoliitto, Finland
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Various BMWs, a Swift cabrio, Benelli TreK
I'm having trouble finding some older pictures that I wanted to start the thread with. I'll add that in later, if discoveries are made..

Anyway, it's that time of year again..

Our usual place of the past few years in Pudasjärvi seems to be still suffering from ownership transfer issues. It seems every year that I contact them, there’s different people in charge, numbers and addresses have changed etc etc. So earlier, when dates were decided, I dropped them a message asking for reservations and frankly forgot the whole thing after that. Later, when I didn’t get any replies to either the original message or follow up questions, I called the guy who does the airfield maintenance. While he has nothing to do with reservations, he at least had calendars for the premises and told me the cabin was booked for the weekend.

At least I had a secondary plan ready, so after some calls, accommodations were booked at Joensuu. Somewhat appropriately as well, as this would be the same track where we started a decade ago, serving as surroundings for both first FG icetrack meet in 2013, as well as the first international meet in 2014.

While the place to stay was sorted, the track situation was quite uncertain even in December, as both tracks replied “possibly available, depending on weather”. And earlier in January the rally cross track let me know that they’ll have “our” Saturday for their own club, but fortunately we managed to get at least Friday on that track.

The drive to Joensuu was slightly shorter for most, compared to Pudasjärvi, but still a fair bit. So I made it to our accommodation with some Norwegian reinforcements late on Thursday afternoon.
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Unfortunately the place seems to be a clubhouse for some “questionable” people. Which is a shame, as it was quite a nice place otherwise. It used to be an old village school, now with plenty of sleeping room and common spaces, with a small display of game consoles, beers and military history downstairs.
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After unpacking the car, I went to the sauna. Because of course I would. Plenty of room to cool off, although that heating arrangement might've had a smoking problem..
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Enough room in the sauna as well. Wood burning stove and no running water, so a nice cabin-like experience in an enlarged form. It took until 2AM for the last of days’ arrivals to make it. And obviously most headed for the sauna as soon as possible. And even the last of us were already in bed before 5AM.
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Despite the late evening, I was up early, to deal with track payments, have some breakfast and kick late sleepers awake. And obviously almost an hour later than I said to the track staff, first cars were at the track! Weather was on our side as well.
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Driving got exhausting straight away, which was a shame, as it was such a lovely day. Fortunately it was just one of the mounting rubbers coming off, but unfortunately all the shops in the town seemed to be out of those. I had some metal wire (because of course I do), so I used that to keep the exhaust somewhat in place. And clunking rather loudly against the chassis on an increasingly bumpy track, as the day went on. Unfortunately this also meant I didn’t dare to drive as much as I wanted, or let others drive it.
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Lighting conditions were rather nice in the afternoon, could’ve done better with something else than a phone. Tobias in the Ford, with unstudded tyres.
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523i doing the rounds.
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Lars enjoying the Omega
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Silly size comparisons, while getting some extra racing overalls, as the walk to the sauna on the other side of the yard very much warranted such attire.
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We were offered pizza on the house, as in made to order downstairs. Nothing special of course, but very convenient in a fairly remote village setting. Also one can enjoy dinner in a racing suit, between sauna stints.
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On Saturday while getting some fuel, I spotted some very wide tracks leading to the fuel station. And made some nice car spottings. I’m sure these two aren’t in any way related.
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As far as Saturday track activities went, I managed to misread info of the other track we were supposed to go to. They were still in the midst of land usage battles, so the track wasn’t open yet. Fortunately Ylämylly was kind enough to house us for the second day, so people had plenty of time to cause more damage to vehicles.

Some exhaust hangers were kindly delivered to me from further south, so I was both able to drive more, as well as let others try the DX experience, with all its “things you need to know before you drive this” -quirks.

After the day at the track, it was time for some burgers. And while not Kauppuri levels of greatness, a perfectly acceptable late lunch / early dinner).
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Aleš really didn’t want to drive the Omega back south. And after we couldn’t even give it away on a short notice, the decision was made to just dump it at the nearest wrecker. And that was celebrated in the appropriate manner.
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Timi having a go on the Omega as well
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Setting off on Sunday, it was confirmed DX can take some cargo.
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The BMW was never going to go back south again, but initially there was the idea that I could possibly scavenge something for my daily, if it made it to my place. But after the beating on Saturday that wasn’t going to happen, so a closer resting place was found at Joensuu.
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The damage at the track was substantial enough that the BMW didn’t even make the last 25min drive to its final destination. But fortunately a ride was available, so we didn’t need to grenade the engine.
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Yellow snow on the way back
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The DX barely survived the trip, as I managed to break the indicator on Saturday. :mrgreen:
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Since editing seems to be ever so slightly limited, have another post then, that was meant as the start of thread. Celebrating a decade of track action.

How things began a decade ago
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How things are going now.
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Yeah the E39 was destined to be parted out anyway due to the significant rust :p
 
It was as always a super fun event. Love coming back to Finland.

People communting between sauna and cottage, here you can see the pro giving the rookie some unsolicited advice.
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@DaHitch coming in for a quick pitstop with the racecar, topping some oil, since there was nothing showing up on the dipstick :p
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Expressing anger at poor bmw radiator placement, making them not very suitable icetrack cars.
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We had plenty of cock
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And left a souvenir for the soldiers of odin :p
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There were some interesting vehicles outside.
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Last picture of the Omega, before it became a cube.
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Hope to see most people again next year, at maybe the traditional location again.
 
So i didn't really take many pictures, just enjoyed the friday to sunday,

Instead using the id3 and charging like 3 times for 1h, i went for the unsensible option and got myself a mercedes benz GLC.


which as it turns out, is a small interior on a somewhat big suv, it was even hybrid with you guest it empty battery D:
The drive to the Joensuu was uneventful and as @Anesthesia for my co-pilot (he had full workday and he then drove 2h to get to my place so we could drive from Vantaa to Joensuu for the ~430km drive) can confirm, not so roomy interior.
But atleast the suv was economic.... erm 8L/100km :D

(Also Sixt had this fuel deal, 1,7eur/L for the petrol, while it was nearly 2eur/L elsewhere, so i took the deal).

But yeah we arrived on friday evening to have a pizza and sauna after the long drive. Both of which were good and needed.

On the morning i made the usual 2 full coffee pots worth and refilled them both to get a better look of the place we had this year:
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The Sauna building:



After some phoning around we managed to get to the track that was used on friday, and i managed to have some fun and kept Harish warm in the idling merc.

Took only 2 pictures:


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After the trackday, the group went to have some burgers:


It was good, but with finnish prices not that good, but the sweet potatoes were heavenly.

On sunday i made the usual amount of coffee for the people and started to pack the cars, even had leached some power to the mercedes from the heating post:


On the drive back we picked up @Brotan from the deal of the bmw and drove him to Helsinki while stopping for some ABC Kebabc at Juva.

On monday morning i drove the merc back to sixt without any electricity nor fuel, since the fuel meter stopped showing range 30km before helsinki the day before, and drove it nearly 80km after that.


Edit: oh yeah we had a karaoke in the merc while driving back from the burgers. i don't go into details who was singing but the car had me, @DaHitch, @Anesthesia and Hariish in the car atm :D
 
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I took photos in Helsinki and in Joensuu and will try to post them here as I process them. I also took drone photography/videography with the help of Adrian flying it around in the comfort of the Skoda SUV and the warmth. I am more sitting on those than I am on the regular photos.
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