Theatrical winter motorsport, sliding sideways on a frozen course.

The F.A.T. Ice Race is winter motorsport at its most theatrical: studded tyres clawing for grip as the cars slide nearly sideways across a frozen course. It traces back to 1952, when daredevils raced first motorcycles and then Porsches on the ice near Zell am See, Austria — the inaugural meeting held in memory of Ferdinand Porsche, who had died the year before. The event ran until 1974 and was revived in 2019 by F.A.T. International and its founder, Ferdi Porsche. After a U.S. debut at Aspen in 2024, the race came to Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana.

The 2026 Big Sky edition ran on 27–28 February at Moonlight Basin, drawing more than fifty race and rally machines — vintage icons alongside modern supercars and thousand-horsepower trucks — in front of a crowd of over 2,000. No longer a single-marque affair, the weekend mixes timed runs, hot laps and air shows. Ice racing rewards finesse over brute power: with traction almost nonexistent, drivers balance throttle, steering and momentum to carry speed where the surface fights them at every turn.

KR Racing won the Classics category outright in its 1980 Fiat 131 Abarth Rally Group 4 (chassis 0388232), running as No. 34 — the very car Walter Röhrl drove to victory on the 1980 Rallye Sanremo. Driven by Alexander, it was prepared by Flying Lizard Motorsports and Road Scholars, shod with WRC-spec winter tyres on aggressive 7 mm studs supplied by Rallysport Development, and maintained through the weekend by KR Racing and Road Race Engineering. It beat a field of Porsches on their home surface — more than four decades after Sanremo, the works Fiat did exactly what it was built to do. The class award was presented by Samuel Byrne of the Yellowstone Club, with Alexander collecting it in a traditional Romanian shepherd's cojoc.