The Christian Brothers Racing team covered some series ground in the last week, competing at the New York stop of the ISOC AMSOIL Championship Snocross schedule and the grueling 2000-mile Iron Dog in Alaska.

ISOC Seneca Allegany Snocross

With Garth Kaufman out with a back injury, Logan Christian was left to carry the flag for Christian Brothers Racing in New York. He just missed transferring to the final during Friday night’s racing, landing in the LCQ where he finished second. Starting from the back row he fought to an eighth place finish in the rough track built next to Seneca Allegany Casino. He came back Saturday and went 2-3 in heats which sent him straight to the final where he again came in eighth.

“It was a tough weekend,” says Christian. “Starts were critical because the track was really rough and had some different kinds of jumps that made it hard to pass. We just didn’t get the breaks we needed this weekend.”

Arctic Cat continued its dominance of the 2012-13 USXC cross-country snowmobile racing season as Ryan Simons swept the Pro classes at this past weekend’s Oslo 100.

The weekend was the first ditch race for the circuit and racers battled the clock through ditches that got brutally rough as well as on the Snake and Red Rivers where speed and handling ruled the day.

Simons set the pace in the first race of the day, the two-lap, 56-mile Speedwerx Pro Open race finishing over a minute ahead of the second place Polaris of Bobby Menne. Polaris rider Aaron Christensen came in third and Arctic Cat rider Brian Dick, who was battling the flu, finished fourth. Simons held the pace later in the day in the DRIFT Racing Pro 600 race. After four laps and a mandatory fuel stop, Simons’ lead was at nearly one minute and 38 seconds over the second place Arctic Cat of Zach Herfindahl. Brian Dick finished third and Polaris rider Spencer Kadlec came in fourth. Kadlec had to borrow the sled of his Pro Women-class teammate Jen Fuller after his sled suffered a mechanical breakdown in the Semi-Pro 600 race.

Round three of the USXC series took place this past weekend at the Willmar Area Lakes 1000 in Willmar, Minn. and Arctic Cat racers continued their early-season dominance by sweeping the podium in both Pro classes.

The USXC crew laid out roughly a 10-mile course on the frozen surface of Foot Lake. Racers set up shop at the Kandiyohi County fairgrounds and fans lined up on the ice along the shore Saturday to watch the action from the warmth of their vehicles.

Arctic Cat rider Zach Herfindahl started the day off by claiming the first Pro win of his career in the Speedwerx Pro Open class. The 16-year-old rookie Pro is spearheading the youth movement in cross-country snowmobile racing and laid down the fastest time in the five-lap, 50-mile race (47:37.106) besting his teammate Ryan Simons (47:42.328) by over five seconds. Brian Dick, another one of Herfindahl’s teammates, finished in third with a time of 47:44.148.

Riders left in flights of two in the 10-lap DRIFT Racing Pro 600 class. After the 100-mile race that included a mandatory fuel stop, Brian Dick rode his Arctic Cat to victory with a time of 1:34:40.222, seven seconds faster than second place finisher Herfindahl and over a minute faster than the third place Arctic Cat of Wes Selby. Just behind Selby was Simons and rounding out the Top 5 was the Arctic Cat of Chad Lian.

It was a busy weekend for the Christian Brothers Racing team, with half traveling to the ISOC Canterbury Snocross in Shakopee, Minn. and the other half hitting the USXC cross-country race in Detroit Lakes, Minn.

The USXC event was held on Big Detroit Lake where the USXC crew had laid out a 10-mile ice lemans course featuring a mix of tight and sweeping corners and flat-out straightaways. It made setting up the Arctic Cat snowmobiles challenging but the CBR crew was able to dial in the machines and set fast times in both Pro classes with Brian Dick taking wins in both the 100-mile Pro Stock race and the 40-mile Pro Open race. In all, the team claimed a total of four of six podium spots – Zach Herfindahl finished third in Pro Stock and Ryan Simons, who swept the previous race at Pine Lake, took second in Pro Open.

Arctic Cat racers, led by Brian Dick, ran roughshod over the field at the USXC J&K Marine Beach Bar 200 in Detroit Lakes, Minn. this past weekend. The second stop on the eight-race USXC schedule, the one-day event took place on Big Detroit Lake in the heart of the popular resort destination town in Central Minnesota.

The USXC laid out a 10-mile ice lemans course on the lake that featured a mix of tight and sweeper turns mixed in with blazing fast straightaways. Brakes, handling, traction and skill played huge in the race.

Dick claimed his first win in the four-lap Speedwerx Pro Open race setting a time of 37:48.593 edging his teammate and fellow Arctic Cat rider Ryan Simons (37:49.618) out by one second. Arctic Cat riders Wes Selby (37:53.195) and Zach Herfindahl (37:58.686) finished third and fourth and Polaris rider Ryan Faust (38:07.492) finished fifth.