February, 2012

A Maine couple was married in a snowmobile theme wedding on February 25. Roland Voisine married Lorrie Robbins Lanphere of Millinocket, Maine. Roland and Lorrie both love snowmobiling and decided to wed while snowmobiling. They rode to the wedding location...

There is a large group of people who are buying "performance" and "touring" crossovers instead of what we have considered more traditional short-track trail sleds. There hasn't been a huge influx of new snowmobile consumers; snowmobiler's...

Ryan Simons nabbed the win at the USCC's Oslo Pro Open race on February 25 in Oslo, Minn. It was the equivalent to a winter wonderland for USCC racers. The small farming community played to host to the fourth race on the 2012 USCC schedule,...

Ski-Doo racers Marc McKenna and Dusty Van Meter won the Iron Dog snowmobile race that runs from Wasilla, Alaska to Nome and then to Fairbanks, Alaska, and established a new course record along the way. McKenna (37) and Van Meter (42), also, walked...

Polaris' Ross Martin won the Pro Open on Saturday, and Ski-Doo racer Tim Tremblay made quite a statement with his 14th-to-podium rush in the Pro Open main event in Farmington, N.Y. And in Pro Lite division racing Kody Kamm (Polaris) made it a clean...

The race of Boonville of March 4 have been cancelled. The next race is in Roberval on March 10, 2012

Tucker Hibbert won his second FIM Snowcross World Championship title in front of 12,000 screaming Russian fans in Semigorje, Russia . Tucked into the deep woods of the Ivanovo region over 400 km northeast of Moscow, the Technical Sports Centre Semigorje...

Monster Energy Gives Back Program teamed up with the Paul Thacker Spinal Cord Recovery Foundation in an effort to help continue to raise funds for Paul's Recovery and others in similar situations. With any long-term recovery process the expenses can...

Robbie Malinoski (Ski-Doo) won a wide open Pro Open final and Kody Kamm (Polaris) prefacing that with a solid win in the PRO Lite class at the ISOC Farmington, N.Y. race. Pro Open Friday Final High wind warnings - with gusts above 50 mph - including...

USCC has been forced to cancel the New York 100 scheduled for March 3 in Inlet, N.Y. due to a lack of snow. The area doesn't have enough snow on the site where the race was to take place, therefore forcing the USCC East and the promoter of the...

Bill Rader, the long-time racing coordinator for the Polaris snowmobile race program passed away Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 54. Rader played a major role in the resurgence of the Polaris snowmobile racing program...

Two time champ, Dustin Wahl won his third Grand Prix Ski-Doo of Valcourt on February 19. Wahl, from Greenbush, Minn., crossed the finish line ahead of two-time Valcourt defending champion Nicholas Van Strydonk of Tomahawk, Wisconsin and Malcolm Chartier...

Joel Diamond won the Grand Prix Ski-Doo of Valcourt Pro Champ 440 final race. The Lapeer, Michigan veteran edged a hard-charging Dustin Wahl of Greenbush, Minnesota and Nick Lagoy of Morrisonville, New York. Jacques Villeneuve of St-Cuthbert finished...

Ski-Doo's Tim Tremblay and Robbie Malinoski both won the snocross Pro Open at the Grand Prix of Valcourt this weekend. Both Friday and Saturday Tremblay ran away with the Pro Open. During Saturday's race, Tremblay had to play catch-up in order...

Bunke Racing and Subway will be hosting a "Bunke Racing Meet and Greet" at the Subway in Roseau, MN from 4:30pm-6:00pm on Wednesday, February 22. Coming off the 2012, Soo I-500 win, Pro-Racer Gabe Bunke and his team will be at Roseau's Subway...

If there was one segment that Ski-Doo lost market share in that hurt them the most, it was the Crossover market. That has been rectified for 2013 as most of the Renegade lineup gets the new rMotion. It will be standard on the X, Adrenaline, Backcountry...

P.J. Wanderscheid won the 2012 TLR Cup and its $25,000 top-prize, the largest series payday in snowmobile racing. With six events spread between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the TLR Cup and its $101,000 total purse attracts the fastest oval racers...

Mother Nature has caused the USCC to cancel the Red Lake I-500 in Thief River Falls, Minn. according to the USCC's website. "We were hoping along with everyone else that we would get some snow, but it's just not happening," said USCC...

Tim Tremblay won the Pro Open in front of a crowd of 20,000 snowmobile racing fans at the 2011-'12 AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series at the Pontiac (Mich.) Silverdome. Pro Open After Ski-Doo's Justin Broberg pulled holeshot, the Pro Open turned...

Arctic Cat racer, DJ Ekre won the USCC Grafton 100 Pro 600 race in Grafton, N.D., on February 12. The Pro 600 race was set for five laps, a 100-mile run that proved a brutal one. Ekre once again set the pace, finishing nearly two minutes ahead of the...

Polaris has released a 2013 lightweight 800 Pro-RMK 155 with the QuickDrive Low Inertia Belt Drive System and dry weight of just 417 pounds. The rest of the 2013 models will be revealed to the public March 5. The new 800 Pro-RMK 155 provides mountain...

Yamaha's racy 130-horse FX Nytro XTX has been around for several years, but for 2013 will feature refinements to improve performance both on and off the trail. This year Yamaha takes aim directly at the off-trail crossover segment of the rough...

Fuels with more than 10% ethanol in them could be required to go through a comprehensive review before hitting the marketplace, after the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology approved a bill on February 7. Wi.-US Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner...

The Bunke Racing team of Gabe Bunke, Aaron Christensen and Bobby Menne IV won the International 500 on the famous Soo I-500 track in Sault Ste. Marine, Michigan, on Feb. 4. Bunke Racing completed the 500-mile race in 9 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds...

Editor's Note: Here is an update on Tabitha Bode, the racing teen friend of the magazine seen in January 2012 racing issue. She's on her way up with two podium finishes. " I just wanted to send a quick update to let you know how the past...