Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
GOGEBIC COUNTY Fairgrounds' half-mile oval track had six inches of ice on Friday. Tom Auvinen and a crew are running two trucks, when weather permits, to lay ice for snowmobile races on Dec. 30 and Jan. 7-8. The desirable depth is 10 inches of ice, so they have one week and a pending cold snap to get four more inches of ice formed before next Friday's vintage racers begin their practice runs.
IRONWOOD - As Ironwood gears up for an influx of snowmobile racers for the next few weeks, Tom Auvinen and crew are busy making ice and preparing the track.
Without the ice-makers and hay bale layers, there would be no racing in Ironwood, but for Auvinen and crew, they are fine with the racers receiving all the attention.
Next Saturday, Dec. 31, between 9a.m. and 4 p.m., vintage racers will ascend to race on the historic half-mile oval at the Gogebic County Fairgrounds.
On Jan. 7-8, the Ironwood Snowmobile Olympus races, constituting round two of the TLR Cup Tour, take place between 9 a.m. Sat...
