Wanderscheid Seeks Fourth AMSOIL Eagle River Snowmobile Championship This Weekend
 The AMSOIL World Championship Snowmobile Derby is taking place for the 46th time at the AMSOIL Eagle River Derby Track in Eagle River, Wis. this weekend, where Team AMSOIL racer P.J. Wanderscheid will be seeking a record-setting fourth win in the AMSOIL World Championship race on Sunday afternoon.
Despite temperatures near -17°F before the wind chill factored in, Wanderscheid qualified 10th in the Pro Champ 440 class on Thursday, clocking in a 37.335 second lap time. Defending champion Brian Bewcyk was the top qualifier at 35.546, and second place through 11th all finished less than a second apart. AMSOIL rider Brad Bettin stopped the dial at 36.858, good for seventh fastest. The top 16 riders advance to the Friday Night Thunder portion of the AMSOIL World Championship, with the winner earning the pole position for Sunday's World Championship race. Friday Night Thunder starts at 6 p.m., and all the action can be seen on a Pay Per View basis at the Derby Track website.
A full day of racing is underway today, including qualifying for the Pro 600 classes, which showcases Team AMSOIL snocross rider Shaun Crapo, who is using Eagle River as a final test before next week’s ESPN Winter X Games. Crapo's teammate, Ryan Carey, will also race this weekend in the Pro class.
AMSOIL Shock Therapy Monster Truck Finds Early Success in 2009
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The AMSOIL Shock Therapy and Excaliber monster trucks kicked off the 2009 racing season on the weekend of January 2-3 at the Monster Truck Winter Nationals event at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, N.C. On Friday night, driver Jon Zimmer drove the Shock Therapy truck to a perfect 30 in freestyle, giving the AMSOIL-sponsored truck its first freestyle win of 2009. Zimmer and Shock Therapy found even more success on Saturday night, dominating the field to earn the team’s second freestyle victory and its first racing win of the season.
The weekend of January 9-10 brought Shock Therapy and Excaliber to the Monster Jam event at BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Ala. On Friday night, Shock Therapy finished second in both the wheelie and the freestyle competitions, then returned strong for the Saturday matinee, grabbing 30 points and the win in the wheelie competition and second place finishes in the elimination and freestyle competitions. On Saturday night, Shock Therapy grabbed another pair of second place finishes in the wheelie and freestyle competitions.
Shock Therapy and Excaliber will compete at Monster Jam this weekend at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn.
A Monster Jam recap program will be televised February 1 at 8 p.m. EST on SPEED. |
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Team AMSOIL Kicks Off Supercross Season
Anaheim, Calif.
Team AMSOIL kicked off the 2009 AMA Supercross season January 3 in Anaheim, Calif. With the team thinking of sending 2008 Lites Eastern Regional Supercross Champion Trey Canard to the supercross class next season, they decided to give him some experience on the west coast tracks, where he is competing in the Lites Western Regional Supercross Series with teammate Dan Reardon this season.
In the main, Canard was taken out by another rider exiting the second turn. After restarting, he experienced some more bad luck, which cost him even more time. He soldiered on to a 14th place finish. Meanwhile, Reardon experienced his own run of bad luck. After grabbing the lead and holding it for the opening two laps, he fell to second and was soon hit by another rider and knocked down. Unable to restart his bike, Reardon finished the day in 19th.
In the 450 class, Kevin Windham got off to a good start, jumped into fourth and quickly started gaining on third. However, as Windham attempted to push himself into second after race leaders James Stewart and Chad Reed crashed, Stewart pushed his bike in front of him and sent him to the ground. He eventually finished 15th.
Phoenix, Ariz.
The second round of the 2009 AMA Supercross season was held January 10 in Phoenix, Ariz. In the 450 class, Windham started near the tail of the top 10, but quickly began moving forward, pushing up as far as fifth before losing one spot and finishing sixth.
In the Lites class, Reardon worked his way through the pack to finish 10th. Teammate Canard was fast all day, but a miscalculation on the first lap of his heat race led to a crash that cost him his chance of advancing to the main event.
The third round of the 2009 supercross season takes place Saturday, January 17 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. |
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Huge Crowd Highlights AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series in Shakopee
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The third round of AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series racing took place January 10-11 in front of one of the largest crowds in the 10-year racing history of Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn. Despite both pro riders battling the flu, Team AMSOIL/Scheuring Speed Sports had a strong weekend of racing, with D.J. Eckstrom finishing eighth in the Pro Open class and fifth in the Pro Super Stock class and Shaun Crapo finishing 12th in the Pro Open class and sixth in the Pro Super Stock class. Team AMSOIL/Judnick Motorsports rider Ross Martin finished fifth in the Pro Open class and 11th in the Pro Super Stock class, while teammate Matt Judnick finished 11th in the Pro Open class and ninth in the Pro Super Stock class.
Next up for Team AMSOIL is the ESPN Winter X Games, where Eckstrom will attempt to win another medal for his trophy case, and Martin and Crapo will be looking to earn their first X Games medals. The ESPN Winter X Games will air live on ESPN and ABC January 22-25.
The next AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series race will be the BIR National in Brainerd, Minn. February 6-8. |
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