08/22/2026
A THOUGHT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SNOWMOBILE DRAG RACING
Something became very clear to us this week while digging through old race material.
A tremendous amount of snowmobile drag racing history still exists.
The problem is finding it.
Old race flyers are sitting in forgotten forums. World-record information is buried on old race-team websites. Results are scattered across archived pages. Photos are sitting on hard drives, in photo albums, race trailers, and old Facebook posts. Sanctioning bodies have come and gone. Websites have disappeared. Publications that once documented the sport are no longer around.
And every time one of those sources disappears, a little more of the history of snowmobile drag racing disappears with it.
Years ago, publications such as Snow Week, Race & Rally, SnowGoer, American Snowmobiler and others documented what happened in the sport. Racers, teams, tracks, records, events and championships were recorded in print, where people could go back years later and find them.
Then along came the internet, giving us something incredibly powerful: instant information. ⏱️
A result gets posted.
A photograph of a timing board gets shared.
A screenshot lands on a group page.
Everybody knows who won by the end of the day.
Then the feed moves on.
A week later, that information is buried beneath hundreds of newer posts. A year later, it can be difficult to find. Twenty years later, we’re searching old forums, abandoned websites and personal archives trying to reconstruct what happened.
That isn’t anyone’s fault. It’s simply what social media was designed to do.
Social media is very good at telling us what is happening at any given moment.
However, it is not very good at preserving what happened for the future.
And snowmobile drag racing needs both.
The immediate result matters.
But so does the complete story.
Who qualified where? Who raced whom? What were the ETs? Was a record broken? Who held the previous record? What machine was being raced? Who built it? What track did it happen at? What sanctioning body recognized it? Who won the championship? What happened to that racer, team, track or organization afterward?
That is how a result becomes history.
We spent only a short time searching this week and uncovered old Seneca Falls race flyers, period event information, photographs, firsthand racer memories and documentation of record-setting performances.
Imagine what is still out there.
That is one of the reasons rebuilding the Snowmobile Drag Racing Network matters to us.
The long-term goal shouldn’t simply be to tell you what happened five minutes ago.
It should be to create a place where, five, ten, twenty or fifty years from now, somebody can search for a racer, race team, event, track, sanctioning body, class, championship or world record and actually find the story.
We cannot preserve everything overnight.
But we can start.
And we can ask the snowmobile drag racing community to help.
If you have old race programs, flyers, results, timing sheets, photographs, videos, magazines, newsletters, championship records, sanctioning-body documents or other pieces of snowmobile drag racing history, hang onto them.
Better yet, share them with us when the opportunity presents itself.
Because somewhere in your basement, garage, race trailer, filing cabinet or hard drive may be the only surviving copy of a piece of this sport’s history.
And once it’s gone, we may never get it back.
The history of snowmobile drag racing belongs to the entire snowmobile drag racing community.
It deserves to be preserved.
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