“That’s a huge accomplishment, to say the least, for the whole Ratzlaff Racing team,” said Allen. Luke bested that with a 3.46 before The Grinch - designed and assembled by Craig Campton of Hypersports - took it back with the 3.45. The Grinch set the mark with a 3.47-second run at Rice Lake. “Definitely an unbelievable comeback year, with us being in all three finals and winning two of them,” said Allen, who’s proud of his team’s battle to hold the ET record. This season was his first after breaking his neck in a top-end crash a few years ago. Making it all look easy in the seat is Allen, who knows all-too-well just how uneasy the sport can be. I’m sure we can go 3.30s and that’s my goal for next year.” “We will keep tweaking on this thing and I’m sure we will be faster next year. “The track was nice and smooth all day but got pretty tore up pretty quick,” said Ratzlaff, who was thrilled to find a spot to lay down that 1.00 60. In fact, the whole event was run on Friday to beat a serious ice storm that started just over an hour after the finals were complete. Warming temps made for a tricky surface at Cable. It loves fuel and timing! I kept tweaking on the CVT drive and also kept working on the rear skid suspension. I found a bunch of power in timing this past week. “I kind of wish we weren’t done now, because we are just getting a good start figuring it out. With that problem solved, Ratzlaff is now faced with a long off-season to ponder the limit on his bright green toy. I found the issue this past week when I was doing an injector test, when the injector number 1 was going on-off, on-off. “When you have an injector not working half the time, due to a bad wire on the harness that plugs into the injector module, it can really do a lot of damage to the engine. “I have learnt not to have an electrical issue!” said Ratzlaff. And this time, the weekend passed without the aluminum-melting carnage that The Grinch experienced in the first two events. After the E1 gimme, Allen beat Long Lake winner Dominic Ernst on his turbo-methanol HRC-4 Eagle 1 sled, then took the final against wheelie king Matt Luke. He and rider Mike Allen were having a good weekend with The Grinch. At some point, though, starters always insist on keeping the show moving and Ratzlaff was told to start up and stage. In the other lane, Jeff Ratzlaff patiently waited to start his own nitro snowmobile - the screw-supercharged “Grinch” that debuted (and won) at the delayed season opener at Rice Lake. “I pushed my luck and tried it three times,” said Romine, who eventually traced the problem to the hex drive on the fuel pump. This time, though, no nitro found its way to the injector. The sled - built and tuned by Jack Romine, and ridden and owned by Matt Musselman - failed to make the transition from alcohol to nitro that is a standard starting procedure that Romine has performed countless hundreds or thousands of times on nitro Harley motorcycles. That last one was the opening round of eliminations. The Weenie Roast World Finals at Lakewoods Resort in Cable, Wisconsin, on March 4 saw a radical new sled debut, and a sled that was radical just three short races ago take a championship-scoring win.Īlthough the brand new, nitro “Harley” V-Twin Samson Exhaust/Hammer Down Racing “Hate Tank” didn’t play a winning hand on this trip to the table, the Pro Outlaw class sled performed exactly as expected on its first lap, taught the crew a clutch-plate lesson on its second (digging a hole in the snow and “dropping a hole”), and suffered an unusual parts failure on its third. The annual Where many forms of motorsport these days are comprised of near-identical equipment, creativity and innovation are alive and flourishing at Snow Outlaws snowmobile drag races. Photo submitted by Eatmyink Motorsports Media. Where: Lakewoods Resort, Cable, Wisconsin, USA Recently the circuit held its season finale at Cable, Wisconsin’s annual World Largest Weenie Roast festival, and Tim Hailey of Eatmyink Motorsports Media filed the following report: Snow Outlaws snowmobile drag racing series race coverage reportĮ vent: Snow Outlaws Weenie Roast World Finals With astonishing acceleration rates that propel professional riders from 0 to over 150 mph in 500 feet over 3.5 seconds on a snowy surface, the Snow Outlaws snowmobile drag racing series is a mind-blowing endeavor.
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