It would be great if somebody would explain the meaning of this research to our heads: I can imagine what will happen if after the lunch I will arrange a siesta!

On Christmas my friend has invited me to drive his car on ice. He’s not a racer but he copes with his car quite good and loves speed. The main idea was to show me, a dummy, HOW a car can be driven on a greasy covering, and to try to teach me the basic techniques of such extreme driving. I’m not a tyro at driving, but I don’t acquire such experience – and I even never considered I needed it.So, not everything at once. My friend picked me up on his Impresa in the morning, when I only was going to have my breakfast. So I had to postpone my breakfast till the supper, as it has appeared later, I had luck… We left the city and arrived to an icy bay. It is a perfect place for driver technique trainings – there are no obstacles, no casual cars and pedestrians. And it has begun! First half an hour I honestly was trying to understand my friend’s explanations and to feel nuances of car’s behavior, then endless
drifts and turns just made me sick, so for some time I was out of reality.The worse was ahead! Friend has sat me down at the wheel and asked me to repeat everything he has shown me… Have you ever heard the expression "like a caw on the ice"? So, in comparison with me at the wheel this caw was a figure skater. In the beginning I even couldn’t start in spite of car’s all-wheel-drive… But my friend’s insistence and perfect characteristics of
his Impresa (with its rally genealogy) have done their stuff – after several hours I felt myself at least like Peter Solberg! It seemed to me I have understood and could do everything, but the task has become complicated:friend has taken out of his boot a bag with empty beer cans (he stored them up especially for me!). He has placed them on ice and started allot real
tasks: not just "make a right turn during a controlled drift", but to not leave the imaginary road, limited by cans… it was terrible! I had only two valid trial of twenty. L

But my friend doesn’t despair: he says he will make a driver of me till the ice will not melt. But I’ve noticed that I’ve become more careful on city streets. Now I know that my skills are not enough in emergency conditions.

Well – I’ll learn more! As the saying is – to be continued.