Looking For Grip

November, 1998

Sliding sideways and being cool about it are what I've wanted to do ever since I dreamed about that first fast car. Recently, I had a chance to slide like a skate at an ice-driving school in Steamboat Springs, Colorado sponsored by the folks from Bridgestone Tire Co. Their purpose is to teach drivers how to handle a car that is trying to break loose on ice, as well as to demonstrate the virtues of their awesome Blizzak snow tires. My purpose was to go skidding: sideways, frontways and ass backwa...