LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge won’t be staged next year.
Held the first weekend after New Year’s for the past five years, the event brought NASCAR and NHRA drivers together in Lake Placid, N.Y., to race modified bobsleds. The goal was to raise funds for research and development for the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project and the U.S. bobsled team.
Bodine began the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project after watching U.S. athletes produce subpar results at the 1992 Winter Olympics in France using European cast-off sleds.
The program, which provides bobsleds for both the men’s and women’s teams, designed and built the four-man sled that Steve Holcomb piloted to the gold medal at Whistler last February. It was the second gold and sixth Olympic medal for the U.S. team since 2002.
Bo-Dyn president Phil Kurze says he’s in the process of developing a different format for future events.
