2011 American Snowmobiler New York ShootoutBy Mark Savage By Mark Boncher
Published:
December 13, 2011 
Photo by AmSnow
Exploding off the line early Friday afternoon Hall posted a 119.68 mph run in 1,000 feet on a snow-starved track at our Woodgate, N.Y. location. Low snow conditions in the Adirondacks left us with a frozen track, but just a light dusting of snow to cool the sleds on their runs and give them proper lubrication for the hyfax. That kept the stocker’s top speeds down a bit as they ran full ¼-mile test runs and their top speeds tended to peak out before the full run. The smell of hyfax was certainly in the air!
D&D provided four modified sleds for our testing before a healthy crowd that was slightly larger than last year’s shootout attendance.
While D&D’s mod sleds were impressive in their performance, much of the draw for consumers at the AmSnow NY Shootout is the testing of the box stock sleds, to see how fast these are before we all start playing with them.
This year we had two clearly defined classes, the 120+ horse class and 150+ horse class, with one stock sled from each of the Big 4 manufacturers in both classes.
Yamaha’s 4-stroke Vector LTX dominated the 120+ class from its very first run, setting the top speed of 90+ mph, and setting the quickest time.
Over in the 150+ class, the Ski-Doo MXZ 800R E-TEC notched the top speed at nearly 99 mph, while the Polaris Rush 800 Pro-R recorded quickest time.
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