The greatest American snow-driving showdown is about to go down and you ask yourself, how can I be a better driver in the snow? So, on the eve of Sno*Drift Rally's Recce day, we asked five top drivers including Block and Pastrana, their best advice to be in it to win it.

#1 Andrew Comrie-Picard: "It's easy - If you live in a place where there's winter, you need winter tires," says ACP, the 2009 North American Rally Champion, and tire guru. "There are a million arguments about the relative merits of getting winter tires, and it's so important to us that we always have at least four different types of winter tires with us at a snow event (that would be: special rally snow tires, regular street ice tires, tractionized ice tires and deep snow tires). Get yourself winter tires and you'll find everything from steering to stopping to getting yourself out of your plowed-in driveway suddenly gets a lot easier."

#2 Matthew Johnson: "Minimize steering! If the surface is icy, you get little feedback," the former PGT Champion, fast-MF, and all round nice guy says. "Keep those happy hands in check and use your patience to let the tire start to do it's job. Then keep tiptoeing until the surface gets better." Believe it - when he isn't rallying, MJ is at Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Steamboat teaching ambitious drivers, safety conscious folks, and rally-savvy shreds exactly this.

#3 Bill Lockwood (yeah, yeah, I needed a fifth quote, ok?): "Cars are like snowflakes, no two are the same. What you do when the road is slick depends what you're driving. Is front-wheel drive? Rear-wheel drive? All-wheel drive? Traction control? Anti-lock brakes? Next time it snows, find a safe place - like an empty parking lot - cruise around in 1st or 2nd and figure out how your car reacts to various inputs. Hammer the brakes and feel the ABS kick in, if you don't have ABS lock the wheels up - ah, no steering but lots of weigh transfer. Steer abruptly - does the car turn or plow. Does the traction control engage? Brake firmly and then turn, does the tail kick out? Get a feel for your car, the next time it's get sketchy, you'll know better what to do."

#4 Travis Pastrana: Straight outta the gate, four-time Rally America Champion, Travis Pastrana says, "Only go as fast as the snowbanks are hard - As in, hard snowbanks equal video game status corners and powdery snowbanks equal lots of digging. The soft snowbanks will pull you in and get you stuck. If you hit a hard snowbank, the car tends to bounce off and back into the road." Travis' rubs bumper on bank with the best of 'em so listen up.

#5 Ken Block: Last but not least, OG rally badass, Ken came out with a banger. "Go fast, take big risks!" he says. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and mention that this tip really only works if you've got tips one through four on lock.

Blah, blah, screwing around in the snow is fun and all, but be safe. A 3,000 pound car can slide forever when you're trying to wrangle it. Don't hit stuff. Don't run in to people. The beauty of snow is you can learn a lot about how your car reacts - and how to control it - at a low speed with lower risk. Think about it.