NYT article on a snowmobile race where a few years back “a snowmobile racer was rushed to a hospital when his corneas froze. And then there was the year the temperature dropped to 31 degrees below zero, and the portable toilets filled with ice.”
Race motorcycles get up towards 150, maybe 200 mph with six or seven hundred cc’s, but they’re on asphalt and are (relatively speaking) stable because of the gyroscopic action of the wheels. Snowmobiles are on ice with skis and treads, so they’re much less stable, and they’re doing 70-100 mph with 1000cc engines. Did I say the treads are spiked? This is a sport where there are almost as many injured spectators as participants. Wicked pissah.
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