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Paul Thacker Does it Again 301 ft Jump
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Polaris snowmobiles not only deliver Terrain Dominating Control, in the hands of high-flying extreme rider Paul Thacker, they deliver world-record flight capability.
On March 26, Thacker piloted a Polaris 600 IQ® on a ramp-to-ramp flight of 301 feet, a new world record for snowmobile distance jumping. He accomplished the feat at the Brainerd (MN) International Raceway. The record-breaking jump was arranged by Monster Energy and Slednecks, who, like Polaris, are among Thacker’s sponsors.
Thacker and the Monster crew endured two days of unfavorable wind and weather before he made the record-setting jump late on the afternoon of March 26. He attained the necessary speed, launched his Polaris off the take-off ramp and landed it cleanly and safely a football field away.
“I got up to 87 miles per hour and hit the take-off ramp,” Thacker said. “When I was in the air I just knew it was perfect. Flew over 301 feet. With the amplitude and the way I landed, I knew we got to where we wanted to be. I was already screaming in my helmet on the down run.”
Thacker broke his own snowmobile distance jump record of 271 feet, which he set on a Polaris in the midst of a snowstorm on February 17, 2008, in Shakopee, Minnesota. Thac
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Paul Thacker: 245-Foot Flyer
Snow, sleet and rain dumped overhead and wind whipped gusts reaching 40 mph while thousands of Minnesotans and their sled-head brethren huddled around a 3.8 million-gallon mound of man-made snow at a horse track. On Saturday night, Feb. 24, all the elements were in place at Shakopee, Minnesota's Canterbury Park for Paul Thacker's world record-breaking snowmobile long jump.
"The visibility wasn't good by any means, but I could see well enough to know which direction I needed to go," shrugged Thacker, who hit the metal take-off ramp with his 430-pound Polaris IQ snowmobile at 80 mph.
The consequences of not landing the Duke Boys-style, 245-foot jump would be like "stepping off the top of a five story building," said Thacker.
By day, Thacker, 32, of Anchorage, Alaska, is district manager for Wells Fargo Financial. By night (Saturday nights like Shakopee in particular), Thacker is the leading long jumper in the world, and his latest landing cements his claim further.
Thacker's 245-footer betters his previous record-making mark of 238 feet set on a sunny day in April 2006. "That was the first time we'd ever done anything official" for distance jumping "in all of snowmobiling," said Thacker. Diehard riders of the Slednecks variety have always love