Race leaders were forced to sit for four hours as organizers made certain there was enough fuel for all with the stretch run in sight.
“We had adequate fuel in checkpoints prior to the race start,” Iron Dog Executive Director Mike Vasser said over the phone from Nome. “We had a couple checkpoints that — and I am not going to excuse anybody that we lost fuel or that fuel is gone — but we don’t have adequate fuel for all the teams to have an equal opportunity to race to the finish.
“... We could have let the lead teams go earlier today, but they would have taken all of the fuel in those checkpoints and could have potentially left seven or eight teams stranded out there because there’s no fuel, and we didn’t want to do that.” After a four-hour hold in Galena, teams began leaving at 4 p.m. Thursday, based on their split times, led by Team 7 of Tyler Aklestad and Nick Olstad. who have been setting the pace for most of the race.
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