After a week of mild weather which washed away the snow cover in the mountains, with rain up to 2,500 m above sea level, the Isère stage of the Andros Trophy came very close to cancellation.
Ice and snow miraculously appeared in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère), twenty-four hours before the start of this penultimate stage of the race this Friday, January 19.
" We stopped believing it would happen !
admits Alice, a spectator who came from Grenoble with her 9-year-old daughter.
I am a fan of motor sports and mountain sports.
So this competition was great.
I still wanted my daughter to see that in her life.
It's sad that it's ending.
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It was in fact the last time that Isère spectators saw the Andros trophy pass near their home, in the Vercors.
At the end of January, the famous ice car racing circuit will bow out after thirty-five years of existence.
The reason ?
Global warming is hitting mountains hard, twice as fast in the Alps according to Météo France.
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