This week is finals week for me.  I'm on a study break right now.  turns out that it is harder than I thought it would be to write 10 pages in 2 days.  Oh well.  but after this week I'll only be working 40hrs a week so that will actually be easier than going to school.  Hopefully then we can get going on our sleds.

We took the rear skid out last weekend.  Polaris doesn't skimp on loctite, thats for sure.  We set it side by side with the xtra-10 we have and noticed that they aren't much different at all.  The newer one just lacks the adjustability of the xtra-10.  Still trying to decide what skid to run.  We like how the newer stuff is beefed up but the xtra-10 is a proven skid.  We also recruited jeff to be our accountant.  We tried to settle the finances from the year and realized we need to get our act together.  Jeff is going to lay down the law so we don't have this same issue next season.  I keep getting more and more pumped up about next season and its hardly even summer yet.  Hopefully I can get everyone to start working out over the summer now that Jeff has a bunch of free weights.  The Pros don't slack off in the last 100 laps so I don't plan on doing it either.  We made a name for ourselves last year and plan on continuing in that direction.

The sled is tore down and we are now getting parts for it.  We picked up an xtra 10 suspension, HTG twin pipes, and a full set of brand new walker evans shocks.  Once school is out I hope to get alot more done on both sleds.  we can't forget about our old faithful Gen II

This past weekend was MIRAs banquet in West Branch.  The whole team went.  We got 4-2nds and 3-3rds.  Then to top off the excitment Roger Britt, the flagman and respected member of the racing community, selected our team to be the recipients of the 2008 MIRA Hard Charger Award.  This award is for the team that never gave up and was the standout team of the year.  It was a real honor.  So we walked away with 8 CRYSTAL trophies.  Then to add to the excitment, we recieved alot of press in the highlight video put together for the season including our picture on the DVD case and being mentioned in the same sentence as the pro enduro champs as "the ones who controlled the enduro action."

We got the sled on saturday from Mt. Pleasant.  We got 14 inches of snow the day before and we were all itching to ride it but we all held off settled for firing it up in the shop  This sled will see nothing but ice for its entire life.  We got Mike's D&D F8 out instead.  After doing some landscaping with the sled we started tearing down the IQ.  About 3 hours later all that was left was the chassis, motor, and rear skid.  We are raking our brains trying to figure our how we want to make the front suspension.  We have lots of theories but nothing to go off of yet.  Found some sweet deals on ebay too, for some parts that we are going to need.

LMB SpeedShop has now added a 2007 Polaris IQ HO 600 CFI to the arsenal of race sleds.  We bought it brand new and are picking it up next weekend.  The only miles that this sled will ever see will be on an oval track.  People say that the new bump jumper style sleds can't turn, well we are going to try to prove them wrong. 

We really just needed something to do all summer.   :)

I uploaded a few more pictures.  I added some new ones to Drummond Island and all of Michigan Cat 500.  Still waiting for some free time to edit the hood camera footage from the first lincoln.

Thanks to our sponsors for their support throughout the year.  Burchett Quality Tool Ltd., Yankee Springs Snowmobile Association, Leaders Marine, Woody's, and SuperSeer.  Special Thanks to our Crew (Les, Alex, Randy, Jeff, and David) Kammi Racing #10, and Hunt Racing #31