MOYLE WINS TLR CUP TITLE

Volume 25 • No. 7 • 2011 

MOYLE WINS TLR CUP TITLE 

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FINAL 

DIAMOND CLAIMES 

VICTORY AT LINCOLN 

MOYLE CAPTURES TLR CUP IN FINALE 

ROB DIAMOND (CENTER) CELEBRATES WITH DUSTIN WAHL AND 

GARY MOYLE FOLLOWING HIS FIRST TLR CUP PRO CHAMP 440 

VICTORY. WAHL FINISHED THIRD, MOYLE GRABBED SECOND PLACE. 

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GARY MOYLE, #33. 

JOEL DIAMOND, #02 FINISHED FOURTH IN POINTS. 

Lincoln, Mich., February 26, 2011; - Gary Moyle of Houghton, 

Michigan knew their would be little room for error if he wanted a 

chance to win the First Annual Tommy Lipar Racing (TLR) Cup 

Championship. Trailing Malcolm Chartier by 22 points going 

into the final race of the season it appeared Chartier had the 

title pretty well locked up, however, Moyle had other ideas as 

he drove his 2011 ski-doo Pro Champ to a 10 point margin of 

victory to claim the Championship and $20,000, over Chartier 

who finished second in the standings on a Houle/ski-doo. 

Dustin Wahl rounded out the top three in the final standings on 

a Wahl/Polaris. 

Overcast sky’s and light snow greeted drivers at the Alcona 

Recreation Site for the sixth and final race of the new series 

founded by businessman Tommy Lipar. Despite having to 

deal with increased dust caused in part by falling snow, drivers 

had no trouble rounding the iced half-mile oval at near record 

speeds. 

Qualifying second to fellow ski-doo ace Joel Diamond of 

Lapeer, Mich., for the final Moyle appeared poised and ready to 

give everything he had to take the race and the championship. 

Diamond who had yet to win a TLR Cup final had other ideas. 

At the drop of the green flag it appeared it would be all Moyle 

as he exploded off the line into the lead well ahead of Diamond 

in second. Finding good clean ice to run Diamond began to 

gain on Moyle going into the corners. Coming out of turn two 

going for the white flag Diamond took advantage of lap traffic 

and made his move to take the lead. Exiting out of turn four 

down the front straightaway, side by side the two nudged each 

other on two separate occasions before Diamond pulled out 

front for good going into turn one. Despite an impressive effort 

Moyle and his sleek black ski-doo were never able to close the 

gap as Diamond sailed to victory. 

Dustin Wahl of Greenbush, Minn., finished third on a Wahl/ 

Polaris followed by Nick Van Strydonk of Tomahawk, Wisc., in 

fourth on a T & N Racing/Polaris. 

MOYLE RACING OF HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN CELEBRATES THE 2011 

TLR CUP CHAMPIONSHIP. 


DRIVERS ARE INTRODUCED JUST PRIOR TO TLR CUP FINAL IN LINCOLN. 

JOEL DIAMOND HOLDS OFF GARY MOYLE GOING FOR HIS FIRST TLR 

CUP VICTORY. 

Malcolm Chartier of Fair Haven, Mich., rounded out the top 

five on a 2011 Houle/ski-doo. 

Joel Diamond is certainly no stranger to the Alcona Recreation 

Area (ARA) oval. Back in the late 1970’s, 80’s and early 

90’s his father Rob put many miles on the track competing 

in the Lincoln Lions 250 mile enduro. Joel and brother Mitch 

have also made their mark on the track in recent years with 

both drivers taking several wins in the sprint classes. In 2007 

Joel captured the Michigan Cat 500 lap enduro on a Yamaha. 

While he has pulled out of enduro racing to focus on his Pro 

Champ ski-doo, he remains active on the sport working behind 

the scenes helping Mitch who continues racing in the Soo I-500 

and Michigan Cat 500. After coming up shy of the winner’s 

circle on the TLR Cup tour Joel was eager to close out the 

season in Michigan before home state fans on a track he knew 

so well. 

“ In the last three weeks we’ve really stepped up our game. 

We’ve been fighting all season. Today we finally got everything 

to come together in our favor winning all three heats and the 

main event. 

I can’t believe it but as heavy as I am, I actually spun out of 

TOMMY LIPAR/DIAMOND RACING CREW: ROB DIAMOND, TOMMY 

LIPAR, ROD DIAMOND, GEORGE SHERRARD, JACK GASSEL, TERRY 

MACDONALD. DRIVERS: MITCH & JOEL DIAMOND. 

DUSTIN WAHL #74 FINISHED THIRD IN THE FINAL AND THIRD IN 

POINTS. 


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NICK VAN STRYDONK #13 FINISHED FOURTH IN THE FINAL AND 

FIFTH IN POINTS. 

the hole and gave up the hole-shot. The hole-shot has been 

our number one key all year long so when Gary (Moyle) started 

getting away in the TLR Cup final I honestly didn’t think I could 

get him back. I was blowing a corner down in turns one and 

two. I couldn’t see the groove I wanted to run. During the plow 

they filled that groove in with a lot of snow dust. When I hit it my 

sled would skate and take off on me, as a result I would lose 

ground. I finally just kept moving down to clean ice until I had 

gone through the rough stuff to get it to bite. From that point on 

I was able to start making up ground. I could see Gary getting 

closer, the closer he got the more it lit the fire inside me and I 

finally reeled him in. Coming off of turn two we encountered 

some lap traffic going for the white flag I used that lap traffic 

to my advantage to run side by side with him into turn three. 

When we came off of turn four we were side by side, I thought I 

had cleared him but when he nudged me, we hit coming for the 

white flag. We bumped twice pretty good but I managed to clear 

him going back into turn one, from that point I was unable to put 

some distance between us on the last lap. It was an exciting 

race, no doubt about that. 

MALCOLM CHARTIER HAD A GREAT SEASON FINISHING 5TH IN THE FINAL AND SECOND IN POINTS. 

Out of the six TLR Cup races this is the second one we’ve 

held fast time. We were the number one qualifier in Weyauwega, 

third fastest in Valcourt , Quebec, today we were able to 

stay on top right through the final. The last three weeks have 

really shown our improvement I’m happy. 

In 2007 Mayne / Diamond Racing co-sponsored by Yamaha 

won the enduro race. I actually drove 448 laps out of the 500 

laps. Over the years between enduro and sprint races I’ve recorded 

thousands of miles on this oval. I love this track!! 

Darcy Rosentreter out of Winnipeg, MB Canada built our 

motors and pipes, he has done a heck of a job. Our chassis is 

a Wahl Brothers Chassis, I’ve had to do some tweaking to get it 

to my liking, I’m getting to where I like it now. 

The TLR Cup is great! Realistically snowmobile racing as 

a whole needed something to bring a little fire back. It needs 

something to make people raise their eyebrows a bit and notice 

the sport. Just like anything else money does that, when you 

SEVENTEEN-YEAR OLD SPENCER GRAFF #97 CAPTURED SIXTH IN 

THE FINAL ON A SKI-DOO. HE PLACED NINTH IN POINTS. 


CURTIS BOIVIN #19B TOOK 10TH IN THE FINAL, SIXTH IN POINTS ON 

A WAHL / POLARIS. 

MASTER FLAGMAN AND FORMER “TEAM HIGHLAND” ENDURO 

RACING LEGEND ROGER BRITT GIVES DRIVERS THE GREEN AS THEY 

HEAD DOWN THE FRONT STRETCH IN THE TLR CUP FINAL. 


MALCOLM CHARTIER WITH CHECK IN HAND CELEBRATES WITH HIS CHARTIER MOTOR SPORTS TEAM AFTER TAKING SECOND PLACE IN THE 

TLR CUP FINAL POINT STANDINGS. 

start throwing large dollar amounts people are going to pay 

attention. I know Tommy Lipar is working hard to increase the 

dollar amounts and bring more people into the series. Tommy 

is a successful businessman who is dedicated to this series. 

There is no doubt in my mind he’ll make it go. Gary Moyle, 

Dustin Wahl, Malcolm Chartier and all the guys that run this series 

are the best there is as far as competition goes”, Diamond 

explained. 

Will Diamond return to the enduro circuit and perhaps join his 

brother Mitch? 

“There are times that I miss it. I can’t tell myself yet that I 

wouldn’t want to run the Soo again, in fact I’ve even considered 

running the 500-lap enduro here again but you never know. 

I never say never so we’ll have to see what happens in the 

future”, Joel Diamond said. 

Joel Diamond is sponsored by Tommy Lipar Racing (TLR) 

ski-doo and Woody’s. Crew members include; Team Owner 

Tommy Lipar, Crew Chief: Rob Diamond Crew Members: 

George Sherrard, Rod Diamond, Jack Gassel and Terry Mac- 

Donald. Team web site www.liparracing.com 

Being a sprint racer Gary Moyle had not recorded near the 

laps Joel Diamond had on the Lincoln oval, however, he knew 

enough from past experience on the track what it took to get 

the job done. With a points title at stake, Moyle would have 

his best day of the season and a little luck to get the job done. 

Failure was not an option! 

“Coming out of Valcourt going into Lincoln I knew I had a very 

fast sled, all we had to do is make sure we didn’t screw up and 

cross the line by getting greedy with speed. We just needed to 

JOEL DIAMOND AND TOMMY LIPAR WERE ALL SMILES AFTER 

DIAMOND LED HIS TLR / DIAMOND RACING SKI-DOO TO THEIR FIRST 

VICTORY IN THE SERIES. 


Thank You Participants, Promoters, 

Race Associations & Fans 

For an incredible Inaugural Season. 

TLRcup.com 

Congratulations Gary Moyle 

20 1 TLR Cup 

Champion 


MEMBERS OF CHARTIER MOTOR SPORTS HAD A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF 

ALL THE ACTION FROM THE TOP OF THEIR TEAM RACE TRAILER. 

be conservative yet fast enough. 

The big plan was simply to win all the heats and the final. 

We would have to just give it our best and see where the cards 

fell. Turns out I could only win two heats. I wasn’t comfortable 

enough with the small distance between Dustin Wahl and myself 

so we decided to try something different for round three, we 

ended up second to Joel Diamond. 

Lincoln is a true NASCAR style big track with high corners 

and fast straightaway speeds. A track like Lincoln is really 

fun for the driver because of the speed, but also for the tuner 

because actual driver effort is less than at other tracks like 

Weyauwega where you are always in a turn and still doing 

speeds in the 90s. In Lincoln we were hitting over a 100 mph 

and carrying tons of speed through the corner. It’s really a great 

track! MIRA and the Manning’s do an excellent job. I’m glad 

they keep building a track for us to race on. 

We were kicking ass in the final for two thirds of the race, 

then my infamous ignition started capping my engines rpm, 

there was nothing I could do to stop Diamonds march to the 

front. He drove hard and fast, so did I, but in the end I had 

nothing for him. It was fun for me up until the last lap, but hey 

that’s racing! Yeah about that - sorry Joel! I thought I had a 

great chance to make a real run at him through turns three and 

four but I just couldn’t get my sled to shoot out of the corner 

like I wanted. As J.V (Jacques Villeneuve) would say “we met” 

and that’s that. I hate getting passed near the end of a race and 

I wasn’t giving it to him easily. He drove smart and hard and 

thinking about it right after it happened I’m glad it was Diamond 

I bumped because he doesn’t move and doesn’t lift, had he 

done either probably would have been cart wheeling down the 

front straight away”, said Moyle. 

Looking back does Moyle or his teammates wish they had 

done things differently? 

Well we would have put a new stator in right away for the 

weekend just to be very conservative but who thinks of that? 

My hindsight is great, but really Diamond had a better set up 

and drove it home. He won fair and square. 

I was just focused on the TLR Cup. Actually all I could think 

of was “where did Malcolm finish? Once I saw him pull to his 

trailer instead of the top three presentation I knew I had it and I 

was damn excited. 

The TLR Cup covered a great variety of tracks and geography, 

it was awesome for the sport. Having a true Pro Champ 

Tour set our schedule before the season started. If Tommy 

Lipar wouldn’t have ran with his great idea we literally were 

planning on only hitting a handful of races and that’s it. The tour 

got our team very excited. We decided the week after Beausejour, 

MB this was the series we were racing for this year. I was 

aiming for another Eagle River World Championship too of 

course, but the TLR Cup was just as serious. Normally I don’t 

care about points racing, it really affected how my team and 

many others approached the season, it was for the better for 

sure. 

I’m happy with the number of races but of course I’d like to 

have Eagle River on the schedule to help my chances!! More 

races on this tour would probably get to be a little too difficult 

to find enough teams to swing the whole series. It takes a lot 

for the teams, their families, their businesses and their pocket 

books. Six is a good number of races to have. 

I just want to thank my crew and their families, my family, 

and all my sponsors and friends. This sport is about a lot more 

than snowmobiles - it’s about families and like-minded people 

getting together on weekends to see who is faster. It sounds 

simple and maybe it is, but that’s what I love about it, the people. 

Winning is only great if you beat good people and losing 

is only slightly tolerable, but still somewhat tolerable because 

good people beat you. If nothing else came from this season, 

all of us involved with the TLR Cup know that when every race 

counts you try harder and in the end are better off for it. The 

season isn’t quite over yet but so far this has been my most 

challenging and most fun”, Moyle said. 

Moyle Racing is sponsored by; United States Marine Corps, 

Ski Doo, Amsoil, Hooper Race Engines, Mike Houle Racing, 

Woody’s, Moto Tassinari, NGK Sparkplugs, Met-Tec, Dayco, 

Millennium Technologies, Camoplast, Skinz Protective Gear, 

Scott USA, Super Seer, River Valley Bank, Boat Car Club of 

America. 

Crew Members; Mike Hill, Dan Ghazale, Dick Baccus, Andy 

Moyle, Tom Moyle and Amy Moyle. 

Malcolm Chartier was pretty fired up going into Lincoln where 

for the first time this season he would have a chance to compete 

in front of Michigan race fans and perhaps come home 

with the TLR Cup. Known as “Mr. Consistent” throughout the 

Cup series Chartier racked up second place finishes at Rock 

Rapids, IA, Amherst, Wisc., and in Weyauwega, Wisc., while 

posting a fifth place finish in Wausau, Wisc., and fourth place 

in Valcourt, Quebec, Canada. A native of Fair Haven, Mich., 

and a former pro-am driver on the Midwest International Racing 

Association (MIRA) circuit, Chartier knew exactly what to 

expect from the oval at Lincoln and what he needed to take the 

championship, sadly things didn’t work out. Qualifying fourth 

for the final Chartier was unable to make a run for victory as he 

finished fifth for the second time this year on his ski-doo. 

“Going into Lincoln I was in a good position to win the cup, 

but the day did not go as I planned. On Friday during testing 

my Mike Houle Racing/Team Woody’s Champ was flying. I was 

able to hold it deep into the corners, I only had to burp the motor 

for a second. The top speed we thought would be competitive 

for Saturday. Testing is a great tool, but until race day you 


don’t know how you will stand against the competition. Gary 

and Joel were both getting through the corners smooth. One 

thing that did bother me was having no hay bails in the corners 

as we reached speeds up to 100 + mph. That is not my excuse 

for the results, it just helps me think clearer while racing. Gary 

had a great day, I didn’t, plain and simple. I am still very happy 

with my second place in the cup chase. 

I would compare the Lincoln to the track of Weyauwega, 

Wisc. Lincoln may have longer straight-aways but the corners 

are similar in respect to width. I wish I had rode at Lincoln like I 

did at Weyauwega, where we finished second. 

I feel that my crew is the hardest working group of guys at 

the track. My team did everything possible that day to win. As 

a driver I struggled to get in the groove of things and adjust my 

sled appropriately. Sometimes you have good days and sometimes 

you have bad days bad. I think mine was somewhere in 

the middle. 

Consistency was a huge factor in our team’s results in the 

TLR Cup. Looking back at it now there are a lot of things we 

may have changed. I feel the factory MHR/Team Woody’s race 

team did a great job this entire season, we focused on the task 

at hand and never over thought the what ifs. I was dealt some 

great cards this year and I would not want to change a thing”, 

Chartier explained. 

How does he feel about the TLR Cup 

I think Tommy Lipar went above and beyond what he promised 

to oval racing. It takes a lot of time and effort to have a six 

race series. I am young and plan on racing for a long time. I 

hope to look back and point to this series as the starting point 

that put oval racing back into the spotlight of snowmobile competition. 

In just one season the TLR Cup has really helped oval 

racing. 

I am not sure if I would like to see more races added. A lot 

changed throughout the series. I think five to six races is a nice 

number. I did find that the points and purse money together 

added more pressure on the driver, more than I have encountered 

oval racing. Eagle River is enough pressure alone on a 

driver, I feel the cup will only add to that. I want to take chances 

at Eagle, racing for the cup we had to be more reserved and 

not take the sled and myself to the edge. 

I want to thank all the people who helped the team achieve this 

success this year. Todd Chartier, Mike Houle, Mark Nabozny, 

Greg Scheiman, Mike Laparl, Bill Phare, and Mike Zimmer. Also 

if anyone has a chance please check out our website http:// 

www.chartiermotorsports.com/ and visit the links to my sponsors 

websites. Without them all of this could not have happened”, 

Chartier said. 

Chartier Motor Sports Racing is sponsored by; Team 

Woody’s, Hydro X, Mike Houle Racing, Grace Performance, 

Fast Concepts, M.L. Chartier, HMK USA, Scott Goggles, Tuzinowski 

Landscape, Pamar Enterprise, Ajax Paving, DP Excavating, 

Kerr Alber Office Supplies, Active Tree Experts, RCS, 

Tek-Vest, TD Motor Sports and Loctite. 

Dustin Wahl, 25 of Greenbush, Minn., broke ski-doo’s dominance 

in the standings. Driving a Wahl/Polaris Dustin qualified 

third, finished third in the final and grabbed third place in the 

TLR Cup championship standings with 411 points. One of the 

top stars in the series. Wahl took the second race of the season 

Amhurst, Wisconsin January 2, 2011 with a victory over Gary 

Moyle. Thanks to an incredible amount of racing history and 

experience on the Wahl team you can rest assured Dustin Wahl 

will be a major contender in the 2012 chase for the TLR Cup. 

Dustin Wahl is sponsored by; Jimmy John’s, Polaris, Micro 

Belmont, T.G. Design, FXR, Fox Shox, NGK, Super Seer, Moto 

Tassinari, Millenium Technologies, Red Line Oil, Camoplast, 

Woody’s, Carlisle Belts, Oakley, DRB Fabrication, TrackTek. 

Team Owner Wahl Bros. Racing Crew Chief: Dave & Durmont 

Wahl Crew Members: Jeff Wahl, Terry Wahl, Jeremy Wahl 

and Aaron Holtan. To learn more about Wahl Brothers Racing 

visit their website www.wahlracing.com 

Thanks to hard work and dedication by Tommy Lipar, his crew 

and some of the finest snowmobile race teams in the world, 

the 2011 TLR Cup Series was a total success. Plans are in the 

works for a bigger and better program for 2011/2012. 

To learn more about TLR Cup Championship Oval Racing 

visit their website http://www.tlrcup.com/ 

CHARTIER MOTOR SPORTS LET FANS AND FELLOW DRIVERS GET A GOOD LOOK AT THE MIKE HOULE SKI-DOO WITH A NICE DISPLAY IN THE PITS. 


TLR CUP • RACE 6 • LINCOLN, MI 

GARY MOYLE, #66 GETS THE HOLE-SHOT AT THE START OF FINAL AHEAD OF JOEL DIAMOND, #02. 


TLR CUP • FINAL POINTS

MOYLE WINS TLR CUP TITLE

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