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A Full Day 2Day 2 started foggy and damp but by mid-morning the sun broke through to warm the track, topping out in the mid-70s that afternoon. As the track heated up, so did the sleds.
In the All Motor and Big Twin races former AmSnow Shootout winners, relinquished their crowns to some new faces.
The Proline Performance All Motor Shootout came down to a run by Tiina Duncanson of Acton, Ont., and mother of Day 1's Pro Stock runner-up, Kiersten, and the ever consistent Wirbel. Duncanson posted an 8.16 at 154.2 mph to beat Wirbel's 8.22 in the final.
This was Duncanson's first win at the AmSnow event after four years of competing, including a second place last year. Her Canadian team, That Girl Racing, was using a motor it had pieced together from one she had ruined and one her daughter Kiersten had seen expire earlier this season.
"It is sort of like a step-child motor," she said after her win with the 1000cc motor, both originally from MRE in Seattle. Phil Stanley built the chassis, which Duncanson has been running the last half of this season.
"I love this event and I love this track," Duncanson said. Like many of the racers she praised the track's condition for the weekend, saying it was the best she has ever seen.
In the Big Twin Shootout, Tony Morabito of Macomb, Mich., surprised himself with a win, beating former Shootout winner Adam Fricke of Demotte, Ind.
Morabito, who was still cheering and getting and giving hugs and high-fives 20 minutes after the race said it was his first asphalt win, ever.
"I never win anything," said the third year racer, adding this was his only asphalt race of the season. He had planned to attend a New York event in spring, but his daughter, Makenna was born and postponed his racing season.
Morabito posted an 8.81 second run to Fricke's 9.25, both at 143 mph. Morabito posted his best time ever, an 8.72 second run, in his second qualifying run and held off all challengers through the afternoon on his 2005 Ski-Doo Mach Z 1000. He couldn't stop thanking folks after the win. The short list includes Dynatech Racing, which cured a motor ill for him that afternoon with a little water in a cylinder and some good luck, LSD (Limitless Snowmobile Development) and his sponsor Sled-X.com.
The Big Twin was sponsored by Kenneth Smith Inc.
Sunday turned up one repeat winner. Butch Veltum of Richmond, Ill., riding his son's Ski-Doo Summit took the Mott Motorsports sponsored 53-sled bracket race to wrap up the weekend. Veltum, a regular AmSnow test rider in winter, had won the Sunday bracket race a year earlier. His son Ryan also won a bracket race two years ago at the Shootout.
Veltum ran a 10.54 on an index time of 10.50 to beat Brian Werner of Hubbard, Ohio. Afterward Veltum, who had an admitted "miserable race" Saturday, said it took him the full weekend to get dialed in as he hadn't raced all summer.
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