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Well I have a few pictures, and a story to tell about Eagle River Vintage Weekend. I went back this year, mostly as a pit crew for my friend and his son.
Last year's event was the first time his kid got to ride the new super mod 440, and he went into the hay bales on his first lap. They had the rest of last winter to sort it out and were getting some respectable lap times at some tracks here in Michigan. This year, the Derby Complex cancelled all practice laps, you were told be ready to race. Well it was warm, they had trouble with half of the drivers transponders not working.... so it took over 4 hours for 56 drivers to each get two laps in qualifying. With the warm ice, the #61 super mod was really tight, and kept lifting the inside ski. He initially was qualified 34th or somewhere close to that spot. In the drivers meeting, it was announced that no buybacks if you haven't already done it. Well, almost 30 had, so as the day progresses, temperatures are dropping and the track gets looser as the ice gets harder. After the dust settles he missed the show by 4 positions. His Last chance qualifier he's running in 4th of 8 drivers and spins in corner 4 on the final lap. Top 5 transfer..... that's how the weekend goes.
The F500 sled was running good, but another driver spun out in front of him, and he tagged her in the rear of the tunnel trying to get by, which collapsed the expansion pipe...... after that it wouldn't rev over 7000rpm...
The dad's Blizzard 7500 had issues in both of his races, 1st lap was good as far as RPM's go then it was going flat. We tried clutching and jetting, but ultimately it was ignition problem. It has been switched over to Polaris ignition and dynoed right back to where it was.
I heard over 400 sleds were in attendance for vintage WC, and over 700 registered for all the various classes.
The final Super Mod 440 WC on Sunday was a crash fest, before 1 lap had been completed they were down from 12 sleds to 7. At lap 6 they were down to 4. Sabrina Blanchette won it, becoming the first female to do so.