“We faced the most extreme temperature conditions you can imagine—100 degrees to -40 degrees below.”

When adventure driver and off-road racer Scott Brady led a one month, 9,000-mile (14,484 km) expedition from the extreme heat of Arizona to the subzero chill of the Arctic Circle, he knew that maintaining the performance of his vehicle was paramount. How would the engine react to being taken from one extreme climate to another?  Mobil 1 knew their oil was up to the task-and provided the product and technical support during the expedition.

“With those temperature extremes, we had to have a premium oil that would deliver exceptional performance no matter what the conditions were or our engine would either burn up in the heat or freeze in the Arctic.” He chose Mobil 1 synthetic oil.

Along the way, Scott and his teammates, Chris and Pasquale, camped along the Dempster Highway in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The temperature? -40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Everyone woke up the next morning cold, tired and with a few numb body parts, but when he went to turn the key on his truck—which had been turned off for six hours—it roared to life immediately, without drivetrain noise.  After crossing the frozen Arctic Ocean to the Arctic Circle, the team doubled back to hot and sandy Arizona—all on one single fill of Mobil 1. “The idea of using another oil…would be like driving on ice with bald tires,” Brady said.

Read the full story here, and view below some of the amazing videos taken during the expedition.
For more information about Scott Brady and the Expedition West, visit www.expeditionswest.com