- Title: U.S.A.: RACING SNOWMOBILES ON GRASS IN IDAHO.
- Date: 17th October 1974
- Summary: 1. GV PAN Two snow-mobiles start 0.08 2. GV PAN One snow-mobils past camera 0.10 3. SV PAN Another pair of snowmobile racers starting 0.18 4. GV PAN Another pair starting and run 0.29 5. SV Scoreboard 0.32 6. SV & CU Lubricating rubber track and cooling engine (2 shots) 0.48 7. SV & GV PAN Start of race and shots of race (2 shots) 1.02 "The sport of grass-racing snowmobiles began just a few years ago, when you might suspect the winter snow came late. Snowmobilers had nothing better to do. But it progressed from that time. Now racing teams participate just on the grass. Some machines here have never been ridden in the snow. "Racers hit top speed of seventy-five to eighty miles per hour from a dead start -- such as conventional drag racers do. Snowmobiles are raced according to the engine size and its modifications ... if any. And the losers are continuously eliminated until only the winner remains. "The problems involved with racing a snow machine on grass or dirt -- for one -- keeping the rubber track lubricated and -- another -- keeping the engines cool in uncustomarily-warm weather. Ice is plentiful here and it melts quickly when placed on the hot manifolds. "The fastest time of the day is eighty-three-point-six-miles per hour by Danny Wheats from Bore, Montana. From the North Western States Grass Snowmobile Championship in Idaho Falls, Idaho, this is Todd Owens Reporting." Initials BB/1936 FC/PN/BB/1948 SPORT: SNOWMOBILE RACING TELERECORDING TODD OWENS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: IDAHO, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
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