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Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Score Baja Race Team

Bi-Polar's Arctic Cat Prowler XT UTV Desert Race Team
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Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Prowler XT UTV Racer
One of the most important elements that Bi-Polar incorporates into the desert racing Prowler is the batteries. “We use three batteries with switches to isolate each battery. They power our lights, which are the state of the art VisionX lights that are LED lights and only draw six amps per light,” Jim explained. “We also have our radios and intercom systems, and our air pump that pumps fresh air into our helmets so we aren’t breathing dust for 1000 miles.”
Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Prowler XT UTV Racer
Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Prowler XT UTV Racer

In Baja and desert racing, the right tires play a big part in avoiding unnecessary time loss brought on by flats and Bi-Polar uses BFG all-terrain radials with beadlocks. “We chose to run the all-terrain radials because it’s the toughest tire known to man. They have more wins that any other tire company on the planet,” Jim declared. “We’ve run them in many races and have never had a flat yet,” he stated. The team does keep one spare tire on the UTV just in case. “You never know what can happen, that’s just the nature of Baja.”

Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Prowler XT UTV Racer
Besides racing in the SCORE series, the Bi-Polar team also races the BITD series and has had some amazing success. Their most recent race was the BITD Blue Water Grand Prix where Jim and his team placed first in their class and their second team placed seventh and earned 15th overall. Their results are quite impressive considering they are running bone stock motors. The top speed of the vehicles reaches about 62 mph but in rough terrain a maximum speed of about 40-45 mph is most consistent and controllable depending on conditions.

Even though the Bi-Polar team utilizes many of the stock parts from the Arctic Cat Prowler 650 XT, Creagan admits it still takes a lot of time and expense to get the machines ready for the grueling desert events. The cost of building a Bi-Polar Prowler costs somewhere in the $50k range, but Creagan estimates that on an individual basis that the Prowler could be built to Baja specs for roughly $10k, plus the cost of the machine, if one was inclined to do all the work themselves, but it would be a huge undertaking. “It’s a monumental effort to keep a race team going. We have a crew of 22 and 4 chase trucks. It takes several months to build the UTV, then it takes several months to perfect it, then you are still constantly working on it. It’s a never ending project,” Jim said matter-of-factly.

Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Pro Truck Desert Racer
Bi-Polar Arctic Cat Pro Truck Desert Racer

While meeting with Arctic Cat's Bi-Polar Desert Race Team, I had a chance to ride in their Pro Truck through the desert, and it was an experience of a life time drifting around turns through the desert with boulders, bushes, and trees streaking by as you cruise along at over 80+ mph

As of now, the Bi-Polar team is busy preparing for the 2008 Baja 1000 where they hope to be able to do what no other UTV team has done before, and that is to finish. “There are very few things left in any kind of racing where someone can complete a race and say they were the first. There’s only one first and we want to be able to be the first.” Jim said adamantly.

The Tecate SCORE BAJA 1000 takes place on November 20-23 this year where we hope to see Jim Creagan and the Arctic Cat/Bi-Polar team accomplish their goal of being the first UTV to finish and claim their spot in Baja 1000 history.

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