Race Into Winter

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Photo Courtesy of Jack Carrubba

Jack Carrubba

Fremont NH- This event is a weekend full of action packed events with many attractions and events. It takes place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The Race into Winter event is a huge snowmobile show that is basically the “start of winter”. There are hundreds of vendors that come and set up tents to sell their products. As well as grass drags, water crossings, lawnmowers racing, and the Ravex freestyle show. 

The most exciting part of the show is definitely the Ravex Motorsports freestyle event. This event is one of the stops on their Ravex Outer Limits Tour. There are professional motocross riders that jump a ramp set up and do crazy tricks like flip and flip combinations. Along with the riders social media phenomena Ronnie Mac made an appearance at the show. 

The water crossing racing has multiple levels of competition from amatuer level to pro level and levels in between. The race on a modified snowmobile meant to be raced on water around a man made pond. The racers race a circular style race where they will race 3 times around the pond and the winner will move on. Crashes can occur and the snowmobile can sink to the bottom of the pond where a boat will come and winch it out. This is a huge attraction for this event. 

The grass drag portion of this event is the other main attraction. With snowmobiles lined up on a line and when the light goes green the racers pin it for a quarter mile dash, etc. Racers modify snowmobiles to be lower and faster so they are more aerodynamic. These snowmobiles can get up to insane speeds of 90 and more depending on the class. 

There are many other attractions such as all the vendors. You will see all the big name snowmobile brands here and big name snowmobile gear companies. Such as Polaris, Arctic Cat, 509, etc. A lot of these companies that come do exclusive deals with people who attend. This event is where a ton of people will purchase gear for the upcoming season and where you can look at the new snowmobiles and gear for the upcoming year.

This event goes from Friday to Sunday every Columbus day and will attract tens of thousands of people every year. This event is a super fun time and highly recommend people to check it out next year.