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Article: Nice ice: the science and strategy of the perfect drag strip.
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- Snow Week
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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It's early November and Bob Stairs stands on a bridge overlooking the Bay of Chaleur with a pair of binoculars.
He's scanning what, in four months, will be the site of the Atlantic Winternational drag races in Bathurst, New Brunswick. Earlier that day, he looked out his window, also overlooking the bay, and thought he saw a tree sticking in the mud that was exposed during the low tide. On magnified inspection it wasn't, but he spent the next half hour looking for other anomalies that could hamper his perfect sheet of ice.
Stairs, who's known as The Ice Man within the Maritime Snowmobile Racing Federation circles, is in a small club of drag strip makers ...