Tips

Checklist for the teams

· Log (provided by the organisation)
· Driving licences
· Passports / Identity cards
· Vehicle registration card
· Confirmation of Permission (if required)
· Insurance policy / ‘green card’ insurance certificate
· Stickers of event sponsors applied in the right place
· Winter tyres (including spare tyre)
· Towing cable
· Spare light bulbs
· Visibility vests (orange / yellow)
· Emergency lights (orange) or torches
· Fire extinguisher
· First Aid kit + 2 thermal film blankets
· Warning triangle
· Red/white emergency ribbon
· Screen wash (for cold temperatures, to -40 C)
· Maximum 20 litres of spare fuel
· 2 mobile phones
· Accurate road maps
· Safety cordon (red/white)
· Vaseline

What to do in case of an accident

• Call the relevant country’s emergency number (see log)
• Inform the Back Office.
• In the event of an accident with animals such as reindeer or moose: cordon off using the safety cordon, call the emergency number and forward the coordinates

Other tips

• Main-beam headlamps mounted at the front / on top of the car provide better sight at night (also on the shoulders)
• Snow chains / car socks are not mandatory, but may make a huge difference in some events.
• Thermal clothes / underclothes
• Hand torches (+ spare batteries)
• Solid jack
• Spare wiper blades
• Power tape
• Iron wire
• Heavier battery
• Sufficient and adequate food and drink (energy drinks, small meat balls, savoury snacks)
• Car canvas / cover
• Sufficient and adequate food and drink (energy drinks, small meat balls, savoury snacks

Do you have any more tips? We would like to hear it!