“While G-Force did start with just my father and I, along the way there were so many people that truly brought me to where I am today. “Special thank you to Chase Miller from Hypersports for helping in the trailer this weekend and noticing my seat almost coming off, and running to fix it by the time I got in the trailer. G-Force as a team was able to run through the checkered flag against one of the best at the track-Corey Sullivan. In the ProX-55 class, Gibas’ Grim Reaper made a run to the finals despite “Blowing the belt through the flags in rounds one and two, to my seat backer almost coming off in round three. “Even with losing in the Outlaw semifinals, the first weekend out with Spiderman felt like a huge success.
“Friday night felt like a great success for the team, and it gave me a lot of confidence as I ran six strong passes (on the two sleds),” continued Gibas. His G-Force racing team picked up Spiderman only three days before the Rice Lake event, unloading at the track Friday night for its first run in Outlaw qualifying. “Last year, I was driving The Grim Reaper in Outlaw, but it has been rebuilt over the off-season to compete in ProX-55,” said Gibas. Gibas beat Corey Sullivan by inches in the ProX-55 final.
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Twenty year-old Gibas fell to Allen in the Outlaw semis riding the “Spiderman” HRC-4, but took “The Grim Reaper” HRC-2 all the way to the winners’ circle in Pro Xtreme 55.
Allen took the final round win when Kelly Shilts redlit on the Chad and Jenny Nyhus-owned ProCharged, nitro “John Deere” sled.ĭefending Outlaw champion Dominic Ernst lost to Alec Gibas in round one. The win was also a big deal for rider Mike Allen, making his first race since a big, top-end crash a few seasons ago. “I suspect that there will be some revisions as we increase the percentage of nitro and gain more knowledge.”
“So far the only changes from our turbo engine package have been the compression ratio and the injectors,” said Campton. Which means that despite solenoid problems and torching the head and cylinder with 50 feet left in the final round, there’s gobs more performance left to be found in The Grinch, which recorded a low ET of 3.47 (Matt Luke set high MPH at 163.72.) 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.
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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.
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