2021
This sort of domination is not supposed to happen at the Eagle River World Championship Snowmobile Derby – especially on a high-banked ice oval track as rugged as the one this year!
Blaine Stephenson of ( Hutchinson) St. Cloud, Minnesota, got the holeshot in the 25-lap final, won the sprint through the first set of turns, held off an early challenge from his main rival Gunner Sterne and then stormed away to an incredible fourth straight World Championship title in Eagle River, Wisconsin.
Last year Stephenson became the first driver to win three consecutive World Championships; he now has topped that feat by winning four straight while also matching the legendary P.J. Wandersheid – one of his childhood racing heroes – as the only four-timer overall in snowmobile racing’s biggest prize.
“It’s just insane – you look at this place and the history, I don’t know what to say about it. It’s just crazy – four years and four championships. I looked up to Wanderscheid as a kid – a lot – and now, gosh, it’s just him and I,” Stephenson said....
