Sebastian Schnuelle won the Yukon Quest in 2009 and starts at the “Iditarod”.
Sebastian “Sab” Schnuelle is the first German who won this year the toughest sled dog race in the world, the “Yukon Quest.”
So far, he came 4 times under Top-10 – this year he won with a new record time: His Alaskan Huskies run the 1.600 km in 9 days, 23 hours and 20 minutes.
The Musher
Yukon Quest champion Sebastian Schnuelle talks about eating vacuum-packed McNuggets, cooking for canines, and taking on Lance Mackey.
Sebastian won the Quest 2009 with the fastest time ever driven after 9 days 23 hours 20 minutes.
Mark finished as a Rookie in an awesome 11th position - he needed 11 days 17 hours 34 minutes.
Sab won the race with just 3 minutes before Hugh Neff !!!
GRATULATIONS !!!
Sab lost another 5 minutes on Hugh Neff on the last 10 miles – another 10 miles to the finish line !
Sab go – Abfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahrt !!!!!!!!!!!!
Sebastian passed Nordale Bridge in Northpole short after 9:00 AKST (19:00 MEZ) – Hugh Neff halved the distance on him and passed only 15 minutes later.
The expected arrival time is around 11:00 AKST (21:00 MEZ).
“It wasn’t even the wildest dream of my mind (to win the Quest), I have to say,” Schnuelle said in a interview with the newsminer. “You know how I approached this. I said I want to go camping.”
Read the whole article at newsminer.
On the Yukon Quest website Sebastian is in second position, but if I interpret everything right he should be in 1st place as Hugh Neff still has to take his 2 hours penaltie in Two Rivers.
So Sab would be 35 minutes in front of Hugh Neff and 57 minutes in front of Jon Little before the last run to the finish line.
Go Sab go !!!
Lance Mackey won the Yukon Quest the 4th time in row.
While I didn’t reach my target – to run the Yukon Quest – but it has still been worthwhile. In Sabs opinion, I couldn’t find a plausible explanation why I have scratched in Mile 101, it was a gut feeling that I couldn’t make it and when I now hear the trail reports (jumbled ice, overflows, lack of trail markers) and see how many dogs had to be dropped, then I must say that it was probably a good decision.
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Yesterday evening I started from Mile 101 to Central. On the way I had some problems on the icy parts and when the trail got up in the windy sections my dogs didn’t want to go ahead and I couldn’t convince them to do so. So I returned to Mile 101 and after I sleep I decided to scratch. The dogs, and I, are all well.
