Skrevet av: Niels Westphal
Dato: 17.10.2005 23:13
Polaris Norway and Finnmarksløpet are collaborating in the 2006 race. The deal includes that the winner of the 1000 km also in 2006 will win a Polaris ATV. In addition the cooperation makes it possible for Finnmarksløpet to use numerous snowmobiles before and during the race.
The work with Finnmarksløpet’s collaborators and sponsors for the 2006 race has begun and these days Executive Director Hanne Rosenberg is meeting with businesses and others to discuss the possibilities for cooperation. Sales Manager for Polaris Norway Arild Sundby, Head of Marketing in Polaris Skandinavia Johan Didrikson, Polaris salesman in Alta Sven Heitmann and representatives for Finnmarksløpet were meeting Wednesday afternoon at Canyon Huskies - run by Roger Dahl, the winner of 1000 km this year. Here the agreement to collaborate in 2006 was confirmed.
From left: Polaris-salesman in Alta, Sven Heitmann, Sales Manager Polaris Norge Arild Sundby, Executive
Director for Finnmarksløpet Hanne Rosenberg, leader Alta Sled Dog Club Jan Gunnar Vian and behind on the
ATV this years’ winner Roger Dahl.
Polaris offers a brand new ATV to the 2006 winner of the 1000 km. This price has become very popular within the Sled Dog community. A musher with a large team of dogs uses an ATV during training before the snow falls and one can start using sleighs. This years’ winner of the 1000 km Roger Dahl proudly demonstrated his ATV and said: - Knowing that there was an ATV waiting for the winner at the finish line was an important source of inspiration when the race got harder. Me and my competitors are training very hard for the coming race and I can promise that there will be a tough fight for the 1st place.
Executive Director Hanne Rosenberg says that she has gotten numerous questions from competitors and others about whether there will be an ATV this time also. - It is good for the race that we now can publish the fact that this nice, valuable and to the mushers, useful, price also in 2006. We know that this is one of the factors that help raise the numbers of participants and create tougher competition.
In the months before, during and after the race Finnmarksløpet needs a number of snowmobiles to make and mark trails, and to clean up. Furthermore, the race has its own press which works to get some of the press-members out onto the trails to cover the race. There is also work being done on trips and safaris for guests and collaborators during the race where snowmobiles will be used.
-Finnmarksløpet has neither the resources nor a wish to own such a large number of machines and therefore this agreement with Polaris means a lot. The snowmobiles that Polaris let us use are needed in order to be able to arrange the race, Rosenberg says. Finnmarksløpet is very pleased with the local sales-representative Sven Heitmann who has been very determined to create this cooperation. - You can thank Heitmann for this cooperation, says Sales Manager for Polaris Arild Sundby.