Polaris’ Ross Martin takes the second annual AMSOIL DOMINATOR! AMSOIL Championship Snocross, presented by Traxxas, opened its 2012-’13 competition season with a spectacular one-on-one match race competition dubbed the AMSOIL DOMINATOR® playing in front of a packed house at Spirit Mountain and foreshadowing what is certain to be two more thrilling days of snocross racing at the Duluth National, presented by Bully Dog. Sixteen of the world’s fastest snocross racers lined up in two-man, side by side two-lap match races, winding down a bracket of thoroughly exciting racing action for the AMSOIL
Championship Snocross fans at Spirit Mountain on Friday. And in the end it was Polaris’ Ross Martin defeating Arctic Cat’s Tucker Hibbert for his second-straight $10,000 AMSOIL DOMINATOR® championship. Handed a custom-made trophy crafted by the folks at AMSOIL from spare parts from all three brands (Polaris, Arctic Cat and Ski-Doo) that brave the AMSOIL Championship Snocross circuit, Martin was asked what he thought of the smartly crafted piece trumpeting his big win. “Yeah, I got a perfect place for it ... right next to the
other one,” said Martin laughing. The Wisconsin native got past Garth Kaufman (Arctic Cat) in the opening round, then bested rookie sensation Kody Kamm (Polaris) - last year’s ACS Pro Lite champion - in a spectacular quarterfinal race. Martin then met he 2011 AMSOIL DOMINATOR® nemesis Ski-Doo’s Robbie Malinoski - in the semifinals ... a rematch of their inaugural AMSOIL DOMINATOR® final last year. The two (Martin and Malinoski) would collide in the first turn after matching starts, Malinoski going high and Martin