Winter Karting on Ice and Snow

All the footage I have seen is night. Is this an evening only operation or is Minnesota arctic and you guys are plunged into darkness for 6 months a year like parts of Canada and Alaska? (I kid)

It gets dark here in the upper Midwest at like 4:30 in the winter.

Seasonal Affective Disorder is getting triggered just thinking about it. When I was a kid and I lived in Paris it was very weird experiencing what no daylight savings time is like. Summer nights it was night out till 11pm? Winters it would be night until after first period class. @Awa Is Sweden like that?

Usually the evening is the only time we get a chance to record anything :joy:

We run during the day too.

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Dug up some daytime videos. Nothing speculator but you get the idea.

Mute for this one as the wind noise is really bad. It was a blizzard and the guys from Polaris stayed out for almost and hour. This is the 2022 layout which was a short roval of sorts.

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Oh found this one. It’s night but has some funnies in there.

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When I was in Ireland I remember being surprised when we left the pub at 11:00p.m. and the sun had just set.

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Heyy! Sorry for late answr. So basically top of sweden during summer we donr have night really it gets dark but like 1hr maby during winter we have at max 4hr of light. Its kinda messed up but you get used to it!

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Oh @KartingIsLife … look! Micro sprints with snowmobile treads on banked Ice Oval!

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Snowmobile racing is a big deal up here. I know quite a few karters who race or have raced in the winter.

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Its not often I am jealous of WI and MN weather. But here in Indiana we are too cold in the spring to race karts and too warm in the winter for any snow racing.

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