You could also be aware of the FIM—or the International Motorcycling Federation—because the governing physique relating to all issues motorbike racing. But do you know that the FIM is extra than simply about bikes?

For these of you dwelling in colder areas that snow for almost all of the yr, chances are high you’re aware of, or maybe you’ve even tried, snowmobile racing. The FIM acknowledges snowmobile racing and has been holding the Snowcross World Championship since 2004.

Now, in 2024, the FIM Snowcross World Championship is again, with its first spherical in Turkey held on March 11, 2024. In case you missed the motion, the occasion noticed a ten,000-strong crowd watching eagerly as American racer Jesse Kirchmeyer and his Polaris 600 took the highest spot within the first spherical of the motion.

Kirchmeyer was adopted by Norwegian Magnus Reiten aboard a Lynx 600 in second place, and Ole-Herman Sjorgen from Austria along with his Lynx 600 RS taking third place.

Is it nonetheless a wheelie even when there technically are no wheels?

Upcoming rounds of the FIM Snowcross World Championship will see the motion fly over to Finland, within the Joensuun Ravirata racing course, on April 14, 2024. Every week after, the racing sequence will head to Norway, with challengers slugging it out within the VM Arena Kirkenes race monitor.

Seeing expert snowmobile racers on the high of their sport slice by way of the snow at excessive speeds is nothing in need of mesmerizing. These machines can simply weigh in near 500 kilos, and seeing these racers flog these snowmobiles round like light-weight dirtbikes is definitely exhilarating.

You may be stunned to study that snowmobiles truly share a whole lot of know-how with bikes, regardless of them seeming to be worlds aside. Indeed, the motorcycling world could pick up a thing or two from the snowmobile world, and vice versa.

Executive editor Jonathon Klein just lately bought to run a Ski-Doo Summit X 850 E-TEC Turbo R by way of its paces, and after studying it, let’s simply say that I actually want it snowed right here within the Philippines.