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The World Championship Snowmobile Derby is the World championship snowmobile race. It is held at the World Championship Derby Complex, [ 1] formerly known as the Eagle River Derby Track, along U.S. Route 45 in Eagle River, Wisconsin on the third weekend in January. Eagle River is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts ...
Vintage Snowmobile Racing is the racing of vintage snowmobiles and has grown in popularity as a sporting event on the Canadian prairie and in America. The World Championship Hill Climb competition is held in Jackson , Wyoming, at the Snow King Mountain resort each year in March. 2019 was the 43rd year of the four-day event and drew around ...
Sno-Jet was a brand of snowmobile first produced in Quebec, Canada in 1965. They quickly proved popular and grew to be a well-selling line of snowmobiles until the early 1970s, helping usher the then-new sport of snowmobiling into Canada and the United States. [ 1] The Glastron Boat Company acquired Sno-Jet in 1968.
International 500. The International 500 Snowmobile Race, commonly known in Michigan as "the I-500 ", takes place annually in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It is known across the country, and is also known to be the largest, longest single-day snowmobile race in the world.
Participants in the 2015 Iron Dog. The Iron Dog or Iron Dog Race, [1] originally known as the Iron Dog Gold Rush Classic and between 2000 and 2009 for sponsorship reasons as the Tesoro Iron Dog, is an off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, USA. It normally starts on a Sunday in mid-February. [2] At 2,031 miles (3,269 km), [3] it is the longest ...
I-500. The I-500 was an annual American cross-country snowmobile race. [ 1] The race was a 3-day event covering 500 miles (170 miles a day) and was sanctioned by the USCC Racing Association (USCC). [ 2][ 3] The first I-500 was race held in 1966, starting in Winnipeg, Manitoba and finished in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [ 4]
Yvon Duhamel (October 17, 1939 – August 17, 2021) was a French Canadian professional motorcycle and snowmobile racer. A six-time winner of the White Trophy, the highest award in Canadian motorcycle racing, he was one of the most accomplished motorcycle racers in Canadian motorsports history. [ 1][ 2][ 3] His motorcycle racing career spanned ...
Jim Adema. Jim Adema [1] was a snowmobile racing star during the first half of the 1970s. He was inducted into the Snowmobile Hall of Fame in 1988. [2] An independent oval race driver, Adema won a record setting number of races from 1970 to 1975, all while riding on one of his modified Sno-Jets, each of which were ThunderJet models.