Steel Shoe Three-Hour National Ice Endurance
Sunset Tavern and Marina
It's Carlson, of Corse!
By DAN SCHMIn
LAKE KOSHKONONG, WI, JAN. 23
S
eventy teams from 14 states came to Lake
Koshkonong, Wisconsin, to meet the challenge 01 the Steel Shoe Fund Three-Hour Ice
Race. Some of the top racers in the country
made the trek to Fort Atkinson: AMA National dirt-track winner j,R. Schnabel, faClory
KTM Supermoto winner Benny Carlson,
Supercross and Supermoto winner Doug
Henry, Formula USA National Champions jeff
Wood and Scott Greenwood, and the world
leader in ISDE medals, jeff Fredette, It was a
beautiful day; the sun was shining, and it was
predicted that temperatures would skyrocket
to a "scorching" 18 degrees!
When Gordon Lunde threw the green flag,
32 heavyweight teams (in the first wave), 29
middleweight and nine lightweight teams (in
the second wave) charged into the first of 55
turns on this 2.2-mile ice track.
Schnabel, on the Bob's HarleyDaVidson/Memphis Shades Yamaha 450, took
the early lead, but just three turns before
completing the first lap he went wide and slid
out in the loose fluff, handing the lead to Benny
Carlson, on the Corse Superbikes/HMC KTM,
jesse janisch, on the Team Suzuki/4&6 Racing
Suzuki, ballied for third with Henry, on the
Bettencourt's Honda, and Erick Bostrom, on
the MilkManfTrackcontrol Honda. It took six
laps for jeremy DeRuyter, on the West Bend
Harley-Davidson Honda 250, and Tim Farrell,
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