The rules are similar to traditional drag races, with the exceptions being that it’s more of a time trial race against the clock instead of racing at the same time as other competitors and, of course, racers will be wearing bikinis. I’m very passionate about my sport and giving back.” ![]() All of the money raised will stay in East Jordan for people going through breast cancer treatments. That’s how I came up with the name TNT’s Ride Like A Girl to Save The Girls Bikini Radar Run. “Since we will be wearing bikinis, I made it a fundraiser for breast cancer. “I have always wanted to participate in a bikini radar run, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to host my own,” Fender said. When she’s close to home in East Jordan, she’s an active volunteer in the snowmobile community, helping out her local snowmobile club by getting the trails ready in the fall, serving breakfast on Sundays during snowmobile season and organizing fundraisers. Photo courtesy Courtney Fenderįender races all over her home state, Michigan, and crosses state lines to compete from time to time. One of Courtney Fender’s racing snowmobiles is a 2008 Yamaha Nytro. When they called my class, I made sure I was up at the starting line.” I bruised my ankle and cracked a couple of ribs. “When I came back down, my foot rolled under the sled and I hit my chest on the handlebars. “I was practising for a race on a ski hill when I hit a bump and came off my sled,” she said. The season I raced for points, I was the high points champion.”Īnother of Fender’s strengths on the race track is her toughness to gut it out no matter what. ![]() “I’m very good at getting off the starting line fast so my competition must run me down on the track. “I have confidence and good reaction time,” Fender said. Representing her teams of Twisted Princess Racing and the Stilson Racing Team, Fender doesn’t just compete in drag races, she excels at them. “I love being a role model for other girls that are thinking about getting into the sport of snowmobiling (via) trail riding or racing.” ![]() “I love competing against the guys and being one of the only girls that drag race in my area,” said Courtney Fender, a decade-long snowmobile drag racer. Women are carving a niche on this competitive track as well. The breakneck sport isn’t just for hardcore guys either. There are usually between 50 and 60 participants who race during any given event, with hundreds of spectators watching. Races are held once or twice a month depending on snow conditions. There are three different classes for the sleds: stock, improved and outlaw, where anything goes. The drag race track is 500 feet (152 metres) with at least 1,000 feet (305 metres) of shut down. When the light goes green, racers take off to see who can reach the finish line first. Three or four people line up at the starting line. ![]() The rules for snowmobile drag racing are pretty straightforward. It’s enough to get your testosterone cranked into high gear. Speeds exceeding the hundred-mile-per-hour mark. The belt should be tight side to side between the sheves in the front clutch also.Nothing beats the high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled intensity of snowmobile drag racing. You should make sure the belt rides as high in the rear clutch as it can (remember,thats low gear) and have a tight deflection between the two clutches, yet doesn't make the sled "creep" when idling. A loose track, that DOES NOT rachet-jump on the drive sprockets is fastest, plus as many boogie wheels that can be added to the rear skid, as well as using "old" hy-fax runners for low friction. The normal "tune-ups" in any "stock" class are usually lowering the chaincase gearing ratio(go to a smaller gear on top,1 or 2 less teeth usually work with a stock chain and adjuster), raising the primary clutch spring pressure or back cutting the fly weights to bump up the launch RPM, cut the heads to up the compression, and jet carb-carbs alittle lean on the primarys and up on the pilot jet. Beware of the berrypickers in these classes, you know, the guy that has some old sled twecked that he only uses in events like this to "win" a trophy. You will have a ball drag racing this thing in some vintage events, or hell, race it in any trail stock class.ĭepending on what type of event you go to, such as a "backyard" deal as the team I use to race with, called them, which most often is hosted by a local snowmobile club, should have a class for a stock, vintage trail use sled, studded or un-studded.
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