After three days of exciting racing at
the AMSOIL Eagle River Derby Track, the big show has finally arrived. Today marked the AMSOIL World Championship Snowmobile Derby and Team AMSOIL rider PJ Wanderscheid was looking to make history.Qualified to start on the front row for the 25-lap final, Wanderscheid was in great position to win his fourth World Championship race, and in turn, becoming the only person to win the race more than three times.
After a strong start, Wanderscheid was running in third. Handling issues, however, caused the three time champ to struggle on the fast oval ice turns. Wanderscheid would drop to sixth and battle for fifth for the remainder of the race. While the checkered flag was flying for the race leaders on the last lap, Wanderscheid's handling issues caught up with him and sent the Arctic Cat into the hay bales. Wanderscheid would be unable to finish the race.
Gary Moyle won his second AMSOIL World Championship and ran a strong race. AMSOIL thanks all of the riders and teams for competing at the AMSOIL Derby Track this year and we can't wait for 2008's version.Next weekend, check out the AMSOIL Racing Blog as we will be writing in from the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Find out how snocross riders DJ Eckstrom and Shaun Crapo do in the big air of Aspen.
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See you at the races,
Jeremy Meyer
AMSOIL Race Coordinator
