This is the last sled Gilles Villenueve ever raced. At the time he was racing cars for Ferrari. In the fall he was at Bombardier, working on the twin tracks, then left for Europe to race the Ferrari's. Gilles came back to Canada mid-season to race this one. He ran it once. Ferrari found out he was playing with snowmobiles, and that was the end of Gilles' sled racing.

There was two Ski-Doo twin trackers built for the 1981 season, and one Moto-ski. They were the prototypes for the twin tracks that would come later. For most of its life, this sled was run by Bill Fullerton as a Ski-Doo, painted yellow right over the original Moto-ski Orange. Ed Webb had this sled in his collection until he sold it last year to Brad Warning bought it.

Brad got it restored just in time for the Eagle River show last weekend. Brad was yanking everyone's chain at the show by telling everyone within ear shot he was going to "fire it up and drive it across the parking lot". As you can imagine, all the Deckers looked it over very carefully. Allen Decker was in on the testing of them in 1981. At the end of the season, Allen got one of the prototype Ski-Doo's to race, so he remembered everything about them. Allen still owns his, and it was also on display last weekend at Eagle River. Jacques Villenueve's Ski-Doo is still owned by Bill Fullerton.

Even though these were revolutionary, according to Allen Decker, the first year prototype was one big bug fest. They knew the twin trackers had potential, so they just kept working through the issues. Brad Huling's on his single track Scorpions killed everyone in 1981. But by 1982, the twin tracks began the domination that would eventually drive the single trackers off the track.