It's definitely the weirdest drag racing video you'll see today, but I think snowmobile asphalt racing deserves a lot more coverage than it gets. The Hayabusa rider runs the 1/8-mile in 7.42 seconds at 84 mph (135.18 kph), but you can clearly see that the rider is struggling to fight the strong wind. The gap makes sense given that the Hayabusa's trap speed was almost 20-mph (32-kph) higher.īrian actually manages to win the second race, this time around with a notably quicker 6.63-second sprint at 97.39 mph (156.73 kph).

The Ski-Doo crosses the line in 6.86 seconds. The first race against the Suzuki Hayabusa sees the bike take the win with a 6.54-second ET. This snowmobile actually competes in quarter-mile races, but strong winds and bush fires in the area forced Byron Dragway to run 1/8-mile races only for safety reasons. And it's impressively quick too.īrian does a test 1/8-mile run at 6.88 seconds and 95.30 mph (153.37 kph) before taking on the Hayabusa. That tiny 0.8-liter (49.3-cubic-inch) two-stroke, three-cylinder runs on racing fuel and nitrous. It has been modified to run on asphalt and it features a rebuilt engine, prepped to run fast at the drag strip. He brought his modified 1999 BRP snowmobile to Byron Dragway and ran a couple of 1/8-mile sprints against a Suzuki Hayabusa.Īs you might have already guessed, this isn't a regular Ski-Doo.

There's even a Snowmobile Asphalt Drag Racing Association that runs events regularly and the yellow snowmobile you're about to see below belongs to Brian Lamb, who just won an MSADRA event a few weeks back.

Snomobile drag racing