Driving fast on slippery surfaces is not usually recommended. Ice tyre specialists Nokian recently performed this little experiment, and set a world record in the process, to show the capability of its rubber.
The company equipped an Audi RS6 and handed it over to their test driver Janne Laitinen who wound the Audi up to 208 mph (336 km/h) on a custom cleared 12 km track in the Gulf of Bothnia. The Nokian Hakkapeliitta 8 studded tyres measured 255/35 R20 – very, er, cool…