Please tell us more. Winter tyres essential I'd assume, it'll be cold.
Mac.
Yes.
The short version is much of the rest depends on how much you want to make use of the fact you'll be up north in the coldest part of the year and therefore also the most likely to have clear skies and therefore be able to see the northern lights... but you're a tick too far south.
How the Icetrack sessions work: I have (paid) access to a track ploughed into the ice by a local farmer - he is a petrolhead through and through and builds his tracks for fun. The last few years we've been on his "personal" lake and it's pretty darned good. It's not too deep, so it freezes quite early, and as long as there's snow and low enough temperatures for long enough, we are good. Last year it was no snow until really late on, but then it caught up with a vengeance. Tracktime is always subject to correct weather being available. I'm asking for a land-based track this winter, too.
I run it so that we have a block booking at a "local" hotel (everything's relative - local is within 30mins drive at 50mph) and we have all day Saturday and Sunday on the track. You handle your hotel booking, your ferry booking etc. - I set up the track time and food.
Normally the Germans would be on the ferry on Wednesday night - it leaves Travemünde Thursday at 0300 and gets in on Friday at 0900. Then it's a convoy up with stops for supplies, lunch, coffee, catch up and meet others and then hotel for the evening (with a Sauna extremely likely!). Saturday we meet up early at the local fuel station, then it's track time with coffee breaks and lunch at the track before heading home to more sauna, probably some beer, and then bed. Repeat Sunday. Monday offers the opportunity to do some more stuff locally - like husky sledding, snowmobil ing, ice fishing - or scoot off to your next appointment to disturb Santa in his grotto in Rovaniemi or whatever else you want to do. You could also return to Helsinki Monday so you have some time to explore before the ferry leaves on Tuesday at 1700 from Vuosaari. It would arrive back in Travemünde at 2100 on Wednesday evening.
Winter tyres are a legal requirement. The cold weather clothes are up to you
Could be only -5C, might be -30C. It's a friendly weekend with lots of opportunities to drive sideways and learn some more about car control... and maybe to lust after a quattro.
Pricing I have no clear idea about yet, but last year would have been similar to the year before, i.e. €55 / head / night in shared twin rooms, with track at €200 per car. Food packages I am still working on, but consider it to be around €150+ for Sat+Sun breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches, and dinner Saturday. I will be back up there in a couple of weeks (with the A2!) and will be trying to hammer out some more details with providers at that point.
More details to follow when I have them. Feel free to bring real spiked tyres if you have them, we don't have an issue provided the weather is cold enough (i.e. below -5, or they'll tear up the track rather than roughen it). I have a video from 2020, I just haven't finalized it yet.