For Immediate Release
NSSR Forest Lake, Mn News – January 29, 2022
“Sweetheart Challenge – Ice Blast” CLICK HERE FOR PDF VERSION
Fascinating Day for the NSSR Super Series in Forest Lake, Mn at the Forest Lake Sweetheart Challenge. National Straightline Snowmobile Racing (NSSR) held its first race of the NSSR 2022 Super Series for the “Fastest Show on Ice”. Temperatures ranged from about 5 degrees F in the early morning to 27 degrees F in the afternoon with a slight breeze from the Southeast from 5 to 15 mph during the day. The 1000 feet of competition shaved ice tracks, 4000 feet shaved with shutdown, were aimed to the North. The racetrack was under cloudy to sunny skies all day. The tracks held up fairly well with the perfect weather on order. Racing action started at 10 AM and ended at 4 PM.
NSSR worked with Mr. Jason Houle of Straightline Performance for coordinating the event at this location. A huge Thank You to the American Legion Post 225 for hosting our awards ceremony in Forest Lake! Also, a Shout Out for R Z Enterprises for bring out the Tractor and Snow Blower to flatten and move back the banks from plowing. Lano Equipment provided the Bobcat and Broom for cleaning the race surface at regular intervals during the competition event.
We were fortunate to have the new safety leathers of Dainese on site for display with Giovanni (Chicago Office Sales Manager) coming all the way from Chicago to show off the Italian Safety Equipment. Really cool that they have an inflatable suit activated by GPS and G-Force to protect the driver in any event leading to a dismount or crash. Thanks to you folks for your participation and support.
Racer entries included over 80 entries on the Pro track and just over 85 on the Radar Run track making a great number of entries at around 170 hot rods. Great to see so many nice vintage sleds coming out of the garage to make some sweet passes on the pro track and the radar run track. Keep those gems coming!
What great weather to get the spectators to come out and watch some fast passes on Forest Lake for our first competition event. Nearly 700 passes on the two tracks combined with some great hot rods including vintage sleds, many running near or well above the 100 mph mark.
Our competitors continue to come from throughout the Midwest and included racers for North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. NSSR is an ISR Affiliated Speed Run organization where you can set World Records on the 1000 foot shaved ice competition and was established in 1986 as a World Record Series. NSSR Racers posted an amazing seven World Records at this race.
When it comes to World Records it was both the two stroke and four stroke sleds strutting down the track in the ideal temperatures. Doyle Swift came out to bump his record from 2021 by 5 mph running his Pro Stock – Stock Turbo up to the 153.58 mph mark with a Hypersports 3 cylinder four stroke! Rod Spindler who continues to campaign his beautiful Polaris Improved Stock Machines bumped the IS 500 record to 113.49 mph and the IS 600 record to 121.72 mph for some amazing passes! Larry Stinger had a great day after struggling for several years with his Super Stock Machine posted a new record at 132.82 mph in the Super Stock Triple class! Our new four stroke classes for both the Pro Extreme 55 and the Pro Mod seen new records with incredible speeds. Charlie Fleck riding the Straightline Performance Machine posted a new record in the Pro Extreme 55 class at 174.96 mph and also took Top Speed of the Day! Terry Gilomen of Gilomen Innovations, a new racer at NSSR, came out swinging on his new Pro Mod four stroke posting an amazing speed of 156.73 mph on that beauty. I would say we will see even higher speeds on these machines as they continue to tune for the Chetek Winterfest. Let’s take a look at Jerry Sutliff on his 1981 El Tigre posting a huge speed of 87.85 mph on his Vintage Mod Stock machine and bumping up his record from 2021! Congrats to all the new World Record Holders and their hard work has paid off.
All records require a run within 2% to back up their World Record run and over 500 fans and race supporters were on hand to witness the racing throughout the day!
This NSSR Super Series event in Forest Lake was again hosted by Straightline Performance and T&T Lawn and Sports, along with the American Legion 225. Also, a big thanks to the City of Forest Lake, the Forest Lake Police Department, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, and the Minnesota DNR for their support and cooperation to make this event happen. I would also like to give a special thanks to our Sponsors who make this happen, please support them while they support our events.
Ron and Stacy Bray of NSSR want to thank all who participated, supported, and sponsored our 2022 event in Forest Lake for the speed run action. We would like to thank all our sponsors who make these races possible! Check out our next event scheduled for Chetek,Wi Winterfest on February 26th
See www.racenssr.com and facebook under National Straightline Snowmobile Racing for more information on results, upcoming events, and our list of great sponsors..