"This is America, " said Ed Klim, president of the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, which represents Ski-Doo, a unit of Bombardier Recreational Products Inc.
Mr. McCurdy, a 15-year veteran of the circuit, had spent more than a month working with a friend at night and on weekends to modify a brand-new Ski-Doo snowmobile with new cylinders, suspension system, shorter skis and other parts his first new sled in five years.