Iron Dog

[rpr10ak]

Here is the starting order for the 25th Tesoro Iron Dog. We are Team 30 starting 23rd. The race starts Feb 10th.

www.irondog.org

Start Order/Team Number/Racers

1 7 Rick Fleming / Tim Bruns
2 16 Todd Minnick / Nick Olstad
3 10 Chris Olds / Matthew Spernak
4 1 Lahka Peacock / Dan Paajanen
5 5 Wayne Wold / Steve Spence
6 25 Troy Wilbur / Tyler Brown
7 22 Todd Palin / Scott Davis
8 8 Tyson Johnson / Tyler Aklestad
9 9 Kurt Steiner / Darrick Johnson
10 14 Eric Quam / Marc McKenna
11 21 Randy Hunter Jr. / David Branholm
12 23 Mark Niver / Jeff Whitstine
13 3 Shane Barber / Evan Booth
14 19 Daanan Mahn / Todd Stam
15 4 Pete Demoski / Tyler Huntington
16 15 Kane Richardson / Bryce Benson
17 6 Bob Jauhola / Tim Jauhola
18 11 Brad Reich / John Bahnke III
19 17 Jimmer Dick / Dusty VanMeter
20 18 Andy George / Dwayne Drake
21 38 Charles Distel / Terry Hawkins
22 33 Calvin Gooden / Jason Peterson
23 30 Ray Richards / Ron Soule
24 12 Robbie Muir / Don Seidler
25 31 Jacob Hannon / Daniel O'Connor
26 39 Rod Downey / Joey Hamilton
27 34 Stewart Pitka / Ashley Wallace
28 2 Will Burton / Jeremy Neeser
29 36 Harvey Farley / Howard Farley
30 42 James Hastings / Charles Potter
31 27 Vernon Albert / Richard Frerichs Jr.
32 26 Clinton Huntington / Jeff Pelkola
33 32 Chris Downs / Ryan Swanson
34 13 Unch Schuerch / Jade Greene
35 28 James 'Tre' West III / Jim West West Jr
36 20 James Spikes / Andrew Zwink
37 35 Gary Higdon / Calvin Monroe
38 29 Peter Reich Sr. / Fred Otton
39 41 Forest Fyrberg / Mark Paaso
40 37 Louie Carlo / Tom Kriska

 

[AK800VE]

I got 10 bux on Palin and Davis

 

[Skid Performance]

I'll go with Stiener & Johnson. They got the real hardware and mental toughness to go the distance.

 

[AK800VE]

and palin and davis dont.........they are goin to repeat again

 

[supercoolguy]

obviously Palin and Davis are a good bet. I'm rooting for Barber and Booth.

I seen team 37 at Hatchers pass polaris the other day. the old man pulled a goober move in the parking lot loading his sled and didn't make it up his ramp onto his trailer as I was coming out the door. no big deal we have all done it. so I walked over and me and the young guy(carlo) grabed the skis and yanked it up onto the trailer. I said something like good luck and Kriska just gave me the serous stink eye. The young kid seemed cool and was all smiles. Ithought damn dude load your own sled cornball how bout a thank you a$$??? maybe he was having a bad day but anyway I won't be rooting for that jack a$$.

 

[Spook]

Mine's on Quam and McKenna. It looks to be a good running group.

 

[Spook]

S---- I forgot about those asphalt boy's Good luck Wayne!

 

[rpr10ak]

I have my favorites, but, there are 5 teams capable of winning. Probably 10 teams that can get in the top 5. The rest, can all be top 10 teams.

We are shooting for a top 10.

25% of the field will never make it to the coast on the Northbound trip. another 10-20% will scratch on the southbound trip.

theres snow the whole way and i bet its gonna be cold.

 

[greeneman]

Good luck Ray

 

[MARV1]

Go team #3, always route for Olds, Chris is cool.

 

[rmkswim]

Under Way

The race is underway. The Irondog website has a cool GPS tracking link where you can watch your team while they throughout the race.

GO TEAM 17!!!!!!!!!!

 

[greeneman]

What happened to team #15 mech problem at the start?????

 

[STR8UPAK]

I just talked to Bryce and he said his gearcase took a dump on the Skwentna River and Kanes was starting to leak, so by the time it would of taken to take 2 off other sleds and put them on theirs they decided they couldnt make up the lost time. I feel bad for them being that it was something that they had no control over.

 

[supercoolguy]

wow, teams 16 and 8 are flat out hauling a$$!!!wonder if they can keep the pace???

 

[nuckinfuts]

The boys left Nome this morning. Looks like it's still a tight run.....GO CAT GO.

 

[AK800VE]

Yup it is still a race, lot of time left for something to happen.

 

[nuckinfuts]

Palin

Sounds like Todd took a nasty spill on the way to Galena, went to the clinic there. Are they still in it or, sled damage antone know?

 

[AK800VE]

From the sounds of it, yes. the paper said that he was walkin around. But they did say the extend of the damage to his sled, only a bent ski???? More then likely arms, generally plastics breaks

 

[nuckinfuts]

Looks like McKenna/Quam and Drake/George should be in Tanana in the next hour or so. They are flyin. GO CAT GO.
Aklestad/Johnson GPS must be broke, map shows not to Ruby yet but stats says there in Ruby fixin Doo's.

It would be cool if the GPS tracker would give current speed

 

[revneck]

Unofficial Race Results

Looks like a 1, 2 finish went to CAT... McKenna/Quam clinch it Congrats!!!

Poos had brutal luck with crank issues... several teams went down

http://www.irondog.org/results/pro-race.php