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The AmSnow Shoot-Out was a weekend full of blistering super sled racing at Brainerd International Raceway where racers hit top speeds in excess of 150 mph. Over 800 spectators attended the event, NOT including racers, their pit crews, or exhibitors.
The Super Sled Shoot-out is the first of two events being held by AmSnow this year. The second will be our "Real-World Stock Sled Shoot-Out", which will be held at an undisclosed location this year. The Real World event will be run on snow and will feature the newest sleds from all four manufacturers. AmSnow staff will run the event exclusively and we will report the "Real World Numbers" to our readers in a future issue.
AmSnow held most of the first round of time trials on Saturday, but a rain delay pushed the majority of racing to Sunday. A gambit of talent was showcased, with a total of over 30 sleds. In the bracket race, independent and sponsored sleds were given three trials and each then picked one of the times to use as their dial-in. After the bracket winner was crowned, the racers with the top four elapsed times of the weekend raced side-by-side in a heads up race for the fastest super sled! Below are our winners:
Bracket Winner:
The winner of the bracket race was Don Hebert from Lac du Bonnet, MB. He ran a 2003 Yamaha RX-1, and used a quarter-mile dial-in time of 11.52. In the bracket final, Hebert ran a time of 11.583 at 108.15 mph, staying within six hundreths of a second of his dial-in.
Super Sled head-to-head racing:
After the bracket race, we pitted the racers with the top four elapsed times against each other to see once and for all who was the fastest. The winner was Jim Moore, a member of the Just For Kicks race team from Casper, Wyo., on his modified 2000 Ski-Doo Mach Z. Moore finished with a quarter-mile time of 8.837 at 148.79 mph in the final run.
In the finals he raced Ron Bray from Anoka, Minn., who ended with a 9.148 quarter-mile time at a speed of 145.66 mph. Bray, the 2003 National Asphalt Champion, posted an 8.804 E.T. earlier in the day and rode for sponsor Straightline Performance.
Two other racers featured in the finals were Christopher Peterson and Steven Wisneski (better known as Asphalt Stevie). Peterson was sponsored by Wahl Bros. and a member of the Just For Kicks race team from Casper, Wyo., and ran a 9.517 quarter-mile at 144.21 mph in the finals. Earlier in the day Peterson ran an 8.656 which was the fastest ET of the event. This was a personal best for Chris and father Steve Peterson's 1998 Arctic Cat ZRT. Asphalt Stevie, sponsored by Wisneski Motorsports and Team Extreme Racing, ran a 9.587 at 155.69 mph in the semifinals. He ran an 8.865 earlier in the day as well at a red hot 157.36 mph which was the fastest speed of any sled at the event. Asphalt Stevie also ran a modified 1998 ZRT.
Turbo class:
Winner of the Turbo Class was Keith Wood on a Bender Racing-sponsored Yamaha RX-1. He had a fastest turbo time of 8.865 at 153.16 mph.
Congratulations to all the racers and a thank you to all our sponsors and all those who helped at the event. Details will follow in future issues of American Snowmobiler, and more specifics will be posted here on AmSnow.com.
The official parts sponsor of the event was
Wahl Brothers Racing. Other sponsors are Mille Lacks Motorsports, Brothers Motorsports, Brainerd Sports & Marine,
Straightline Performance,
Bender Racing,
Aaen Performance, Asphalt Stevie,
Straight Line Speed Association,
World Snowmobile Association, and
Minnesota United Snowmobile Association