News Update
Press Release
Date: March 21, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Labrador City, NL – 21 teams left in the race and it promises to be an exciting finish. All remaining teams have signed in to Kuujjuaq, QC to serve their 16 hour mandatory layover. In order to ensure a daylight finish, Cain’s Quest held teams over an additional 12 hours in Kuujjuaq which allowed the first team (Lessard/Hall) a checkout time of 16:46 today. Read more
Penalties Clarified
Teams delayed in Kuujjuaq to ensure daylight finish
Teams will be held up in Kuujjuaq, QC for an extra 12 hours to ensure a daylight finish.
CQ News Update
Press Release
Date: March 20, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Labrador City, NL – It is day 4 of Cain’s Quest Snowmobile Endurance Race and 12 teams have checked in to Kuujjuaq (Checkpoint #11) for their 16 hour layover. It was a good day for most teams today with only 1 team scratching this morning at Wedge Hills (Checkpoint #10) Edward Watkins and Simeon Berthe from Kuujjuaq ran into some bad luck this morning with a blown motor and could not continue. Read more
Teams in Kuujjuaq
7 teams are now in Kuujjuaq after a long night in the middle of nowhere. Teams 29,26, 25, 22, 20, 44, and 31 are all in Kuujjuaq. They will do their 16 hour layover here. Read more
March 19 – News Update
Press Release
Date: March 19, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Labrador City, NL – Today in Cain’s Quest Snowmobile Endurance Race teams made their way along the second leg of the race toward their next 10 hour mandatory layover stop in Nain. Teams are really battling rough terrain out there along the race route and it has been the demise of a total of 13 teams so far leaving only 22 teams left in the competition. Historically, approximately 50% of the registered teams make it to the finish and it appears that Cain’s Quest 2012 is proving to be just as unforgiving.
Teams 22 and 25 News Update
Teams 22 and 25 are back on the clock and have left Nain checkpoint. It appears, their spot units are not transmitting and CQ is making arrangements to reach them and to reset the units.
Logistics Important For Race To Happen
Many logistical pieces have to be in place to make a race such as Cain’s Quest work. We have remote checkpoints that will be manned by volunteers. They need supplies to survive and to make their checkpoints work. This year Air Inuit helped us move supplies to two of our remote checkpoints.
Great start to an exciting week
Droves of spectators came out to the Cain’s Quest 2012 start line in Labrador City on a beautiful Saturday morning Read more
