Arctic Cat Cup Magazine English Edition Issue 4 2013 | Page 48

PREMIERE FO

To this season SVEMO´s Snowmobile section has completed a
new rule book for the class 150
gold helmet for snowmobiles. We
asked Rickard Stenberg from the
snowmobile section about the
new rule book.
Why is there a need for a rule book in
150 gold helmet class?
What we´ve seen the for a while now is an
increasing interest in ”exhibition races” for kids
on snowmobiles in connection with snowmobile
races. That´s a problem because we don´t have
the class regulated in our racing rules. And therefore the kids has to drive outside the competition and without insurance that our other classes
are covered by. So the most important reason
to the rule book in 150 gold helmet is to protect
the kids with insurance and of course making it
a little bit easier for the arranger too. The second
reason why we have done this is that we´re experiencing a declining interest among the younger
drivers. But the interest among kids who wants
to drive in 150 gold helmet is huge. The earlier
the kids get interest for the sport the bigger the
chance that they continue in junior class.

Who are your target group?
From our side (snowmobile section) the focus
is targeted at play. That will say that we want
as many kids as possible to try this and have
fun with a reasonable cost for the parents. The
rules are designed to leave a lot of freedom to
the arrangers in how they want to structure
the competition. For example in wich classes
they want to devide the drivers in. We don´t
have an ambition that this should be like in
the ISOC-series with points. As I said it should
focus on fun and that everybody is a winner.
And hopefully some of the kids go further
towards real racing when they get older.
How did you decide on the limitations?
We had to have some limitaitions. We looked
at the rule book for our other classes and
copied parts that we wanted to use in the new
150 gold helmet too. Some are for pure protection reasons like emergency stop and the size
and use of snow flap. We also wanted some
limits connected to the engines. We browsed
what kind of mini snowmobiles that was out in
the market and then put the cc limit to 150 cc.
Then you can use Kitty Cats, all the newer 120
cc machines and even the elderly Yamaha Sno
Sport. Then it´s upp the arrangers to devide