And while Campton said the team wasn’t ready to talk nitro percentages, the word in the pits was the sled started with 30% on Friday and was up to 40 by the end of the event. The first time the sled moved under its own power was Q1 Friday night in Rice Lake.”īut when The Grinch out-60 footed Teasley in round one and took the stripe, it already looked like a well-sorted machine. Besides several days of dynoing, there was no time for actual testing. “We did the engine build in October and began assembling the chassis in early December. “We started designing the ScrewCharger-specific chassis and the blower drive components in early April,” said Campton. Jeff and Kim Ratzlaff are the owners, Howard Haack and Jeff Ratzlaff jointly tune it, and Mike Allen rides the beast. The Grinch is a brand new, screw-supercharged, nitro-powered sled designed, assembled, and dyno-tested by Craig Campton of Hypersports. Teasley didn’t make it that far this time around, as his reward for number one qualifier on Friday was a round one pairing with “The Grinch” on Saturday. On Friday night, fans saw three rounds of Pro Outlaw qualifying beneath the lights, and relative newcomer Jeremy Teasley nailed down the number one spot with a 3.48 at 152 mph on Chris Connelly’s Jeremy Hannen-tuned, turbo-alcohol HRC-4 “Problem Solver.” Teasley is a well-known motorcycle drag racer that made his snowmobile debut at last year’s Snow Outlaws finals, going all the way to the final round before losing a photo finish. Fortunately, fans could duck inside the Loyal Order of the Moose 402 for warming libations between Snow Outlaws’ efficiently run rounds. Saturday registration is from 9:00 to 10:00 am, drivers’ meeting at 10:00, eliminations at noon sharp.Taking a radical new build from completion to the winners’ circle rarely happens right off the bat in motorsports, yet that’s exactly what did happen at the Snow Outlaws Winter Nationals presented by Rice Lake Tourism.Ī rowdy Wisconsin crowd braved gusty, 35 mph winds blowing loose snow across Rice Lake’s 14+ inch cover of solid ice as the nation’s hottest snowmobile drag racing series threw down stunning laps on the 500 foot, packed snow course. Qualifying and testing runs under the lights at 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm. Racer registration is Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, with a mandatory drivers’ meeting at 4:30. Snow Outlaws boss Nyhus will likely be defending his Pro Mod championship on his “Dirty Allis” sled against Casey Rosenbrook, Tyler Stelton, Blake Saltzman, Cole Myers and more. He’ll face the likes of ’22 Weenie Roast winner Brian Sullivan and his “John Deere” themed Hypersports HRC-2, Brian’s brother Corey Sullivan (the defending season champ), ’22 Long Lake winner Casey Ausloos, Matt Musselman and Samson Exhaust’s Mike Baverstock on their Jack Romine-tuned sleds, “Farmall” owned by Chad Nyhus and ridden by Scott Kostman, Mike Sweeney Jr., Samantha Martin and more. Gibas won the Pro Xtreme 55 class at Rice Lake last year and will be defending that win again this year along with his laps on the Hulk. Young Alec Gibas lost to the Grinch in the Rice Lake final last year, but saw the light of the green sled’s header flames and returns with a Hypersports-built, blown nitro sled of his own-the Hulk! Nothing beats the smell of nitro in the crisp Wisco air and Rice Lake will see plenty of it.Īlso expect to see Dominic Ernst and wheelie king Matt Luke on their turbo-methanol HRC-4 sleds, and many more. “I’m sure we can go 3.30s and that’s my goal for 2023,” Ratzlaff said at the end of last season. Veteran tuner Howard Haack helps with the maps on this Hypersports-built beast and with a championship winning season of lessons learned, this combo will be fun to watch and tough to beat. Pro Outlaw snowmobiles are the real studs of the snow, and Mike Allen rides the baddest sled around: Jeff Ratzlaff’s screw-supercharged nitro “Grinch” that debuted (and won) at Rice Lake last year. Pull up to Moose Lodge 402 and check out the world’s quickest sleds-nitro, alcohol, supercharged, turbocharged-you’ll see them all in action over 500 feet on the Rice Lake ice. STM Powersports Snow Outlaws-the hottest show in snowmobile drag racing-is back in action this weekend February 3rd and 4th with their first 2023 race at fabulous Rice Lake, Wisconsin-the quickest track in the sport.
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