Believe it or not, ice racing is a past-time that evolved out of necessity. It comes from skijoring, or 'ski driving,' when farmers equipped with skis would enlist either horses or dogs to pull them across the ice so they could get around in Scandinavia.
Eventually, what was once a necessity became something that people did for fun. That's how Austria's new winter sport of ice racing at Zell am See was born back in 1937. If you're a Porsche fan, you may recognize the town name as the home of the Porsche family. By 1952, an annual ice race named for the recently deceased Professor Ferdinand Porsche was born.
