Yes, they still race at Haydays.
It’s the official start of winter in September. This past weekend 50,000 snowmobilers descended upon a fallow farm field in Sunrise Township just East of North Branch, Minn., looking for deals on the latest products and hoping to get some sort of snowmobile fix to tide them over until the white stuff dumps on us.
A lot was new this year including the venue, Sno Barons moved the event from Lino Lakes to its a new location, a spot they bought and developed specifically for the event. Somewhere between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. everyone began to find out that the road system was woefully inadequate when it came to funneling the entire snowmobile world into one small area. People sat in traffic for hours until the cops finally shut it down and began turning people away. Growing pains.
Since we used to hunt deer in the area we took some back roads and made it in OK. And we took pictures.
Snocross fans have probably already heard about the injury Cory Davis sustained to his foot while riding moto about four weeks ago. When he’s not racing sleds the Christian Brothers Racing/Team Arctic rider from Soldotna, Alaska, says he absolutely loves riding freestyle moto and that’s exactly what he was doing when he got hurt, getting ready for a comp in his gravel pit. Cory checked in with sledRacer.com last night and gave us all the (sometimes gory) details on exactly what happened. Read on and learn all about getting pumped full of sedatives, fracture blisters and exactly how many doctors it takes to put your foot back onto your leg. Here it is in Cory’s own words:
You could say that when it comes to racing snowmobiles Steve Scheuring’s been around the block a few times. He started racing back in the 1970s and later was one of the few people brave enough to race a twin-tracker. Later, he was part of the Yamaha factory crew, then in 1998 started his own team after landing a sponsorship deal with AMSOIL. The Original Independent, Scheuring’s been at the snocross game as long as anyone. His operation has evolved into one that is totally self-contained with its own race shop, dyno room, test track and snowmaking operation. Read on as we find out about Steve’s hobbies, what he thinks of the state of snocross racing and coming home to Ski-Doo.
