World Championship Snowmobile Derby

[2] Eagle River is located in the same county as Sayner, Wisconsin, the place that Carl Eliason invented one of the first modern snowmobiles.

The first winner was an eighth grade student named Stan Hayes, who won the marquee race in a 9 horsepower sled.

Numerous guests attended the event, including Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke and Fuzzy Thurston from the Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers championship team.

[5] The current event is highly unorganized and features 1400+ entrants racing snocross or on the oval track in vintage and modern snowmobiles.

Combined with warmer winters creating inconsistent ice conditions the races have often been cancelled and draw less competitors each year.

The top finisher in the ten competitor qualifying race starts on the pole position for the world championship feature on Sunday.