For Immediate Release
NSSR Chetek, WI News – February 27, 2021
“CHETEK WINTERFEST”
Fascinating Day for the NSSR Super Series in Chetek, WI at the Chetek Winterfest Celebration. National Straightline Snowmobile Racing held its first and only race of the NSSR 2021 Super Series for the “Fastest Show on Ice”. Temperatures ranged from about 25 degrees F in the early morning to 41 degrees F in the afternoon with a slight breeze from the West less than 5 mph during the day. The 1000 feet of shaved ice tracks, 3800 feet shaved with shutdown, were aimed to the East. The racetrack was under beautiful sunny skies all day. The tracks held up fairly well in the warm temps and sun until about 2:30. Racing action started early at 9AM and ended at 2:45PM.
NSSR worked with Mr. Rob Licht, Winterfest Chairman, of the Chetek Chamber of Commerce to get the event set to coincide with the City’s local events with Winterfest. It was also great to have the Kids Pro Ice Series set up next to NSSR so that spectators could watch some great oval track racing with the future of the sport! Fans and Spectators had the thrill of also watching nearly 700 passes down the 1000 foot straightaway! The Bikini Run was run by the Chamber and raised over $10,300 for the Cure for Cancer and Cancer Research!
Racer entries included over 80 entries on the Pro track and just over 150 on the Radar Run track making a great number of entries at 230 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 the ice and the track held up well for racing action until mid-afternoon. The Chamber of Commerce had a record setting day for this event with over 3000 spectators on the ice! More important, the racers had a great time getting the sleds out and meeting up with fellow racers and spectators. The Radar Run track had some great hot rods including vintage sleds, many running near or 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 the only ISR Affiliated Speed Run organization where you can set World Records on the 1000 foot shaved ice competition. World Records in the Stock and Pro Classes were again limited with the warmer weather and NSSR Racers posted only a few World Records at this race.
When it comes to World Records it was the four stroke sleds strutting down the track in the warmer temperatures. Doyle Swift came out to bump his record from 2020 by running his Pro Stock – Stock Turbo up too the 148.61 mph mark with a back up of 147.97! Erik Fagerlin of Wisconsin came out and posted an amazing 99.11 mph on his stock Yamaha 3 Cylinder Four Stroke. Top Speed of the Day was in the Top Gun Class at 181.01 mph on the Hypersports Warning/Ensor Family Custom four cylinder four stroke machine. This machine is now testing the drive train with the huge horsepower advantage. The quest continues to break the 200 mph mark on this machine so get ready for some more competition with this Hot Rod at the 2022 Winterfest Celebration.
All records require a run within 2% to back up their World Record run and over 1000 fans and race supporters were on hand to witness the racing throughout the day!
This NSSR Super Series event in Chetek was hosted by the Chetek Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with many of the local area businesses of the Chetek Area. Also, a big thanks to the City of Chetek, the Chetek Police Department, the Barron County Sheriff’s Office, and the Wisconsin DNR for their support and cooperation to make this event happen. I would also like to give a special thanks to Brit who brought the big snow cat to move the snow in the areas of the race track and parking areas.
Ron and Stacy Bray of NSSR want to thank all who participated, supported, and sponsored our 2021 event for just another great year of speed run action. We would like to thank all our sponsors who make these races possible!
See www.racenssr.com and facebook under National Straightline Snowmobile Racing for more information on results and upcoming events.