Motorcycle and ATV racers take to a plowed-out ice oval near the South Port Marina on Big Lake to test their skills at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour.

"When you're out there, and you're in the pack, things move incredibly slow. Everybody jumbles around slow, the positions move slow, it seems like you go slow," says Alaska Ice Racers president Richard Dietrich. "But when you look at the camera for an outside view ... We're not going slow."

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