Irvine, California - It has become something of a fashion for makers of luxury sports cars to offer their customers the opportunity to experience driving on ice and snow, under controlled conditions.
For Aston Martin, that means two three-day sessions in one of the United States' most rugged and demanding environments. After its inauguration in 2014, Aston Martin on Ice will return to the western town of Crested Butte in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in February 2015 for a second season of adrenaline-fuelled thrills and luxurious living.
The three programme will provide drivers the opportunity to drive Aston Martin sports cars in an environment far removed for their more usual roads, on a four-hectare layout specially built to entertain and inform, with a braking/cornering exercise loop, slalom, skid pad and full circuit.
The participants will practice car control under expert in a series of braking, cornering and handling exercises before putting their skills to the test on a 1.6 kilometre frozen road course.