Feature article
Assigned story prepared with phone interviews, but I tried to convey immediacy to the scene through the copy.
Autoroute Magazine
Ice racing feature
... up the 1300 cc engine, and before long, he's crunching across the snow to where the track lies, deep blue and slick. He actually enjoys driving on treacherous ice, slush and snow. But then, he's an ice racer, rubber tire class.
When the flag drops on a rubber car, you gotta remember that you're sitting on glare ice, and you try to take off gently and get traction... and away you go. You end up with a real schmozzle in the first corner because everybody piles in there at the same time.
Prentice is hooked. Ice racing does that to you.
In 1975 Prentice caught a race off Young's Point near Peterborough, Ontario. The next year, he built the track in Minden for the Kinsmen Water Carnival...