Hoping to race for Team Arctic next season?

Now's the time to fill out and submit your 2012 Race Application.

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Last weekend at the Hillclimb World Championships in Jackson Hole, Team Tapio raced a pre-production 2012 M800 HCR with a Boondocker Turbo in the Open Mod class.

Here's a sweet video about it.

Goodbye Thief River Falls, Hello Sao Paulo (Brazil)????

Click to read a fake story about Arctic Cat's plans to produce snowmobiles in Brazil.

NEWS UPDATE: It's April 1st Folks! And this story was intended only as a joke.

Thanks to the slednecks over at SledRacer.com, my eyes were opened to this concept "sit in" oval race sled conceived and built by oval guru John Hooper.

I can't help but think of Gilles Villeneueve, Alouette, Manta, Ski-Doo twin-trackers and other interesting sleds that have have carved a unique niche (while slicing away the very elements that we think of as "normal").

The future of oval racing...or just the latest in a long line of sideshows?

Click to read more.

There are 14 more North American locations to see, touch, lift, scratch, sniff, dream and otherwise get intimate with the new 2012 Arctic Cat line.

Click for the remaining dates/locations.

One of the guys responsible for helping shape and create the new line of 2012 Arctic Cat snowmobiles, Jack Nelson earns his keep as a Styling Engineer in the Arctic Cat Plastics Group. It's the kind of job he's performed at Arctic Cat since 1975, and he's damn good at it.

Smilin' Jack was kind enough to answer some questions about role within the company. Click to read them.

Now THIS is what a sweet snocross track tooks like. Check out this short video of Tucker Hibbert and Pieti Puhakka practing for today's FIM Snocross World Championship.

I see a RZR-beater, future Baja-winner and Glamis-hero, not to mention the fastest trip to the deer stand ever offered.

Arctic Cat sent a press release about the "Wildcat," the wicked-looking sport side-by-side they teased at their recent snowmobile dealer show.

Click to read the release.

Last weekend, my brother-in-law and I hauled a load of lumber to the family cabin on North Fowl Lake. A border lake of Minnesota and Ontario, Fowl is part of a chain of lakes that serves as the basis of a REALLY cool ride, skirting the BWCA Wilderness and through some very wild country.

Done with our chores, we embarked on a fine March ride that totalled 160 miles, two lake trout, one dead deer, one dead moose and myriad memories.

Click to read about it.

Metalflake... open-face helmets... Fresca pop...and great sled lyrics.

"We tip the glass to the Northern lass, for she won't let you kneel. She'd rather squeal, on a snowmobile."

By winning both ISOC Pro high-point championship titles this past weekend at the season finale in Lake Geneva, Wis., Tucker Hibbert fulfilled one of his main goals for the season.

Then, while sitting in the airport waiting for his flight to Norway (for the FIM Snocross World Championships) he fulfilled his other goal of being interviewed by me for ArcticInsider.com.

Click to read it.

Team Arctic snocross racers ended their 2011 ISOC campaign with five class wins and four high-point championship titles. Nice!

Click to read the Team Arctic press release.

The dates have been set: Arctic Cat's 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place July 29-31, 2011, in Thief River Falls, Minn.

Welcome to the March, 2011 version of Random Photos.

Click to see what I scrounged up for your viewing pleasure (and my own laughter).

Team Arctic's Magnus Lindback (Alta, Norway) is the 2011 European Snocross Champion!

Click to read Magnus's short description about how he won it.

Heckuva weekend for Team Arctic, racking up 33 combined wins between the finalt two USCC races in Warroad, Minn., the ISOC National snocross in Elko, Minn., and the RMSHA hillclimb in Lost River, Mont.

Click to read, and to see the visuals.

My son Calvin raced a snowmobile for the first time this past weekend, at the USCC cross-country race in Warroad, Minn.

During a winter in which we've had some amazing snowmobile experiences, this was MAJOR highlight.

Here's what we learned.

There's so much more to explain about the 2012 model year Arctic Cat sleds, here's a brief overview of just some of it.

Lots more in-depth stuff coming over the next weeks.

Click to see it.

Shown (briefly) at the Arctic Cat snowmobile dealer show this week, was a Prowler-like side-x-side that looks WAY sportier than a Prowler.

Yep, Arctic Cat has been pretty busy lately!

Click to see the U.S. and Canadian MSRP of the 2012 Arctic Cat snowmobiles.