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Season Finale Weekend Recap
MSDRS
traveled to Brainerd for the 2nd weekend of racing their this season.
What a great weekend for racing. Mid 20's to low 30's both days made it
almost a shame that the season was coming to a end. After a season of
what seemed like a endless run of sub zero weekends we all needed last
weekend. Many of the class points battles were not settled until
Sundays races were completed. Several classes had points so close that
it made for some tough decision making by the tuners on various teams
involved.
Kruger Vintage World Finals Feb 9th and 10th Weekend Racap
Saturday
morning greeted racers to moderate snowfall and mid 20's for temps. But
it wouldn't last long as the weatherman was right for a change. As race
time aproached the temps began to fall and the predicted wind began to
blow. By the time the first heats began there were moments of near
whiteout conditions. The MSDRS staff did a great job of keeping the
timing system operational. Snowdust is the biggest nuisance to the
timing system. as the day progressed the snow ended and the sun began
to peek out but it didn't keep the temps from dropping. By the days end
actual air temp was near 0 and windchills approached -20. It didn't
stop nearly 150 entries from racing thoughout the day though. There was
some very closely contested classes including 2 New Mod Stock 440
Champions. Josh Erdman bested the 10 sled field and Claimed the
Mod-Stock 440 Free Air Class which netted him a cool $425 payday and
Jonathen Letzkow finished on top of the 12 sled field of Mod-Stock 440
Liquid sleds along with $440. Both left with the 4' tall traveling
Tracy Kruger Memorial trophies to display on their mantles until next
years Vintage World Finals. This years event had over $3500 in total
payout making it one of the richest purses on Vintage Drag Racing.
Results can be viewed Here.
Sunday
was a day for only the hardcore of hardcore racers the morning air temp
was -11 and windgusts aproaching 30mph made for a bitter cold day. The
high for the day ended up at -4 but the winds eased up around noon and
the race went off as scheduled. The sleds ran very well throughout the
day with some very impressive E.T's to those that had given their
machine a good dose of fuel as the word for the day was lean,lean,lean!
With only 63 entries the day went rather quick but the racing was still
hot as always! Results are posted here
Races Rescheduled for February 2nd & 3rd
The races scheduled for last weekend are going to be
made up on Super Bowl weekend at Ernie's on Gull Lake in Brainerd.
After a -22 degree start to Sunday a decision was made, that in the
interest of everyones safety and the potential for damage to the wire
in the timing system, that the race for Sunday would have to be
rescheduled. As a result we will try to make up both lost days of
racing on the 2nd & 3rd. Hopefully we can get Mother Nature to give
us a few nice weekends in a row now so that we can all just go race and
not have to reschedule any more events the rest of this season.
February will be a busy month so take this upcoming weekend and get
those sleds Dialed in. We apologize to all that came last weekend but
hope you all understand the reasoning behind the decision that was
made. Check the message forum for room deals at the AmericInn in
Brainerd.
Clay Nueman to be Inducted to SHOF
As
many of you may know, we lost Clay Neuman, a long time member of the
MSDRS racing Community this past September. What some probably have not
heard or read about is that prior to his death Clay learned that he was
selected as a 2008 inductee to the Snowmobile Hall of Fame. A honor
only given to a very select few people in Snowmobiling. To read more
about his induction please follow the link Clay Neuman SHOF Induction
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