Jimmy Marietta, of Hubbell, swept both of the Pro Classes at the Terra-X races in Ontonagon last weekend. (Submitted Photo)

ONTONAGON — Hubbell’s Jimmy Marietta, and MTU student Jordan Wolfe, each won 3 classes at last weekend’s MASTERS Terra-X races in Ontonagon.

Marietta won both of the Pro Classes, Pro Open Stock and Top Dog. The popular snowmobile racer, also won the Vintage class.

Wolfe not only set the fastest time in qualifying, but he also won the Stock 600, Stock 850 and the Mod 850 classes. In qualifying to advance to the finals, Wolfe ran 44.55 seconds on the challenging three-quarter mile course in the Top Dog class.

However in the Top Dog 2-sled shoot-out between Marietta and Wolfe, Marietta won the race. While this class is for Modified snowmobiles, both racers were on their Stock sleds — Marietta on an Arctic Cat and Wolfe on a Polaris.

Marquette’s Joel Nylund held off Marietta in the grueling 33 minute Vintage Enduro. 6 of the 7 sleds that entered this personal and sled endurance race did finish the race, however only Nylund and Marietta were on the same lap.

Greenland’s Wyatt McIntyre won the Mod 850 class, and advanced to the finals in both the Stock and Mod 600 class.

“One of the best races of the day was between Wyatt (McIntyre) and (Dalton) Moyle in the Mod 850. Moyle was on the snow flap of Wyatt for the entire race,” said Jason Kleinschmidt, MASTERS director of race operations. “All of us thought that Moyle was going to pass Wyatt on any one of the tight turns.”

Hubbell’s Joel LePage won the Junior Class in a final against Ahmeek’s Kolten Laurie.

“Both sure did not look like ‘Junior’ racers. Joel (LePage) and Kolten (Laurie) have a bright future in Terra-X racing,” Kleinschmidt said.

4 children between the ages of 5 and 11 raced in the Stock 120 class. Unlike the other classes, this class had all 4 racing at the same time. In the finals, Ontonagon County’s Klayton Kin defeated the sister-brother team of Ryland and Braden Rose of Marquette County.

Also competing was the young girl, Sunshine Oelfke, who took money out of her piggy-bank to buy milk for her classmates in school.

As a part of the festivities, Scott Collins of L’Anse displayed four of his Vintage Snowmobiles.

Terra-X is a new form of snowmobile racing that the MASTERS introduced to the Sport last year. It encompasses a course of tight turns, uphill and downhill, jumps, and bumps. It would be considered comparable to a cross country race, but is done on a short three-quarter to one-mile course.

The Vintage Enduro is a form of racing that the Range Snowmobile Club started last year on the grounds of their clubhouse in Atlantic Mine. It is for 500cc sleds that are 20 years and older. The Range Snowmobile Club will have their Vintage Enduro this coming April.

Both races were sponsored by 906 Services as a fund-raiser for the North Country Snowmobile Club. The club grooms over 100 miles in Northern Ontonagon County.

The MASTERS have two upcoming hill climbs including the Triest Forest Products-Vollwerth’s Meats Mid America Championship Hillclimb on Feb. 1 and the Ojibwa Casino WINTERNATIONALS on Feb 22. Both Hillclimbs will be at Whealkate Bluff in South Range.