Polestar 2 Arctic Circle EV First Drive: Drift Circler

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Polestar 2 Arctic Circle EV First Drive: Drift Circler
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Wearing white OZ Racing wheels and studded tires, is this Polestar a cleaner, greener Lancia Delta HF Integrale?

) riding on a suspension that's lifted 1.2 inches on springs that are 30 percent softer. Its custom-tuned three-way performance Öhlins dampers offer a range of settings, but for our drive they're set to a softer rate than the Perf Pack runs.

Outfitted with custom-made 245/35R19 studded winter tires , the car probably could have circulated this track at close to the speed it would run on dirt, but racing studs really destroy a meticulously groomed ice surface, so our Mécaglisse track hosts begged us to run Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires with less aggressive"street studs." Their grip probably ranks roughly halfway between that of the unstudded Michelin X-Ice Snow tires and those race studs.

Then we strapped in with two-time Daytona 24-hour class winner Jean-François Dumoulin for a hot lap of a three-quarter-mile better-groomed handling circuit, boasting lots of hills and tight curves, parts of which serve as an asphalt supermoto bike track in the summer.

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