Welder Dave
Senior Member
Wasn't a 40 rider gate? I wasn't very fast but raced in Alberta. Favorite track was Antler Lake. I did the track prep there for about 10 years including a round of the 1999 Canadian nationals. I made a deal with the 2 clubs that used the track to haul about 300 yards of sand to the track earlier that year. I was kind of proud of that because the 2 clubs didn't really get along. I think that was the best prepped the track ever was. It was a very fun track because you could go fast on several sections even if you weren't that fast overall. I was pretty good friends with Zoli Berenyi Sr. who won the world vet championship 12 times. 2nd most all time. I got into track prep helping him. He asked me if a skid steer could do much and the rest is history. I used my tractor too. I stopped doing the prep because in the early 2000's only 1 club used the track and a new president didn't want to acknowledge what anybody before had ever done. He got someone else to do it that cost the club 10 times more money and the guy eventually ruined the best feature of the track. There was a big hill with about a 50ft. table top jump at the top with a steep landing. The fast guys made it look easy and slower guys would just bounce of the top. It was a safe jump because everyone knew about and was easy to adjust your speed coming up the hill. Well this guy cut over half of the table top off and made it a very gradual landing. Totally ruined it. Now even Jr. riders have to slow right down to avoid over jumping it and flat landing. It used to be a 4th gear partial throttle jump downshift to 3rd in the air for the fast guys. Now I think you could over jump it in 2nd gear pinned. Beyond stupid when accelerating up an 80 to 100ft. hill on about a 45 deg. angle. One of the fastest guys forgot how much he had to slow down and I think had a mild concussion from flat landing and going down.
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