Snowmobile water racing risky, but fun, participants say

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Pit Row is a grassy sloping into Gordon Lake at a place called Bullhead Billy’s Bar and Grill.The bleachers are lawn chairs overlooking an oval buoyed waterway.And professionals and amateurs race snowmobiles on the open water.It’s like NASCAR except wetter, maybe wilder, certainly wetter.Mike Simonson brings you the sounds of an International Watercross Association race over Memorial Day weekend in northern Wisconsin.

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