Porsche Ice Experience

It's a game best played on ice with the Porsche 911 Dakar

- RAMESH SOMANI

There are some experiences and adventures that you do for yourself, and no videos or pictures can justify the real feeling. Imagine you have returned from a space tour where you could not take any pictures and videos, but the experience will be surreal and lifelong. Porsche Ice Experience is one such life experience. This was my second time, and as such, this program is also called Level 2 of Porsche Ice Force. In the end, you are handed over a certificate to prove that you can drive and drift on ice. This certificate also helps your case in getting earlier allotments of enthu-cult machines like the Porsche GT3 RS. In my case, it’s a remembrance of the three days of metamorphic experience on ice.

Porsche has been doing this for almost 12+ years in the little sleepy town of Kittila in Finland, also famous as an ice-skiing tourist destination. A large swamp is converted into a playground on the ice where iconic Porsche machines drift and slide till the snow melts. The level 2 programme has a price tag of 10,000 Euros plus flights and gets sold out faster than you can digest this. It’s a very sought-after Porsche Experience, and it’s also common to find enthusiasts who have done this multiple times and are always ready to drift, eat, sleep and repeat. At the registration, you also have to provide your credit card details, and there is a maximum cap of another 10,000 Euros in case there is any vehicle damage or if you decide to go more adventurous than required. So, in total, we are talking roughly INR 12-15 lakhs for three days and four nights and adding another ten lakhs more in the worst-case scenario of you trying to do “Ice Breaking Stunts’’.