On the track, the sleds started on a packed clay areas before transitioning to grass. To create the best, most repeatable runs possible, organizer Heinrich Kirschner moved the event to a track he knows well – the Seneca Falls Super Track in Seneca Falls, New York, one of the premier grass drag tracks in the country and the site of many world record grass drag runs. This year, due to the COVID-19 related restrictions, the Shootout was held outside of the Old Forge/Inlet area with no spectators, and it was focused on stock snowmobiles this year with no aftermarket sleds due to the COVID situation and its restrictions on out-of-state travel. Let’s cover some details, and then get to the results.

No Yamaha dealer chose to participate in the event this year. It would also be the place to find out how the 600-, 800- and turbocharged engines from Arctic Cat, Polaris and Ski-Doo would perform. This would be the first place a Polaris 650 Patriot engine would be dyno’d and then tested in its new Matryx setup. Though no crowd was in attendance, the action was still intense and the results are still highly coveted. the old/traditional AmSnow Shootout in the Old Forge area) held the season’s traditional first shootout and dyno test of the new iron again this year. The ZR 9000 Thundercat not surprisingly put up the fastest time at the event.ĬOVID be damned, the shootout must go on! With that sort of mindset, the organizers of the annual New York Shoot-Out (a.k.a.

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