YZ450 POWERED SNOWMOBILE! FIRST FOUR-STROKE TO EVER WIN A SNOCROSS

Boss Racing’s Robbie Malinoski drove a prototype Yamaha four-stroke snowmobile to victory in round three of the 2007 WPSA PowerSports Snowmobile Tour at Brainerd, Minnesota. This was the world’s first National Snocross victory by a four-stroke sled. Just as Doug Henry gave Yamaha the first-ever Supercross victory by a four-stroke motocross bike (the YZM400 in 1997), and the first ever National Motorcross victory by a four-stroke (the YZ400F in 1998), Malinoski’s historic performance on a special Yamaha sled proves Yamaha’s four-stroke technology can go ski-to-ski with any two-stroke out there.

Malinoski’s race couldn’t have been any better scripted. He qualified well and then grabbed a holeshot to lead all 20 laps of the technical jump-filled course, using the huge torque of the Nytro-based three-cylinder engine and the agile handling of the FX Phazer-inspired chassis to dominate the event. “The engine has so much power and the chassis is built perfectly around it,” Malinoski said afterwards. “It’s amazing how the track gets that massive torque and horsepower to the ground.”

This event will be telecast on SPEED on Feb. 7 at noon EST, followed by the re-air Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.

Robbie Malinoski joins Doug Henry in the four-stroke Pantheon.