Polaris Wins BAJA Sur 500 &
Sand Hollow WORCS
Brandon Schueler & Scott
Kiger Win BAJA Sur 500
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Minneapolis, MN (4/28/2015)
- This past weekend would have the Polaris Factory Racing Teams racing in Mexico at the Baja Sur 500 and at WORCS Round 5, in Hurricane, Utah.
SCORE International's Inaugural Baja Sur 500 is the second race of the 2015 SCORE racing season and was a point-to-point race from Cabo San Lucas to Loreto. Out of the nine finishers, seven would be RZRs, including the winner, Jagged X's No. 1932 RZR XP 1000 with drivers Brandon Schueler and Scott Kiger, with navigators Chad Hemmer and Justin Kerr.
Twelve UTVs would take off from Cabo San Lucas on a 424-mile race to Loreto. The Jagged X No. 1932 would start at the back of the pack. Schueler and Hemmer would start the race and it was planned that Kiger and Kerr would take over at Pit 3 to run to the finish. By Pit 3, the car was on a very fast part of the course and the chase truck was crawling down a dirt road so the car missed the pit and there was nowhere to access the race course for another 60 miles. Schueler knew he'd run out of gas before that but luckily found some helpful locals who gave him enough gas for him to get to a spot where it could be filled completely and Kiger and Kerr could get in.
Kiger and Kerr would run the No. 1932 for the first time in the dark but that would not stop them from going all in. When the crossed the line, the team was certain they had a solid second-place finish, but after all the penalties were accessed and the tracker was reviewed, Jagged X was proclaimed the winner. Johnny Angal with Eric Ringler and Branden Sims with Craig Hamer, would end up finishing third in the Baja 1000-winning, No. 1921 UTV Inc. RZR XP 4 1000.
Round 5 of the WORCS Racing Series would be at Sand Hollow, in Hurricane, UT. The course is 13 miles of sand dunes and rocky hills giving racers a wide variety of terrain that is both technical and challenging. Polaris Factory Racers would make a clean sweep of the SxS Pro Podium with Ryan Piplic taking the win, Beau Baron taking second and Mitch Guthrie Jr. taking third. The top seven spots would go to RZRs. Piplic would also win the SxS Unlimited class with Guthrie Jr. taking second.
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Racing Pro SxS Podium (left to right)
Beau Baron (2nd), Ryan Piplic (1st), Mitch
Guthrie Jr (3rd) |
With five rounds in, Polaris Factory Racers are
holding the top five positions in the SxS Pro
Class with Ryan Piplic leading the class in points,
Guthrie Jr. in second, Beau Baron in fourth and
RJ Anderson in fifth. Guthrie Jr. also is leading
the points in the SxS Unlimited class for the
season.
The WORCS Single Seat Class would see three racers
line up for the win. Jacob Shaw would take his
third straight win in his Polaris ACE with Brian
Haag taking second and Ronnie Anderson in third.
Shaw leads the class in points with Anderson in
second and Haag in third.
The next WORCS Race is in Cedar City, UT, on May
22-24 and the next SCORE race is the Baja
500, in Ensenada, Baja Mexico, on June
4-7.
Jagged X Sponsors
Polaris, Muzzy Performance, Walker Evans Racing,
OMF Performance, Factory UTV, Cutting Edge Manufacturing,
Vision X Off Road Lighting Systems, Polaris Racing
Lubricants, UTV Underground, Mountain States Contracting.
Johnny Angal Sponsors
Polaris, ITP Tires, Method Race Wheels, Rigid
Industries Lights, Fox IBP Shocks, Lone Star Suspension,
wrap by Wolf Designs.
Ryan Piplic Sponsors
Polaris, Nelson & Nelson, Maxxis tires, Fox
Shocks, Muzzys, Method race wheels, Rugged radios,
Beard Race Seats, Antigravity batteries and Tire
Blocks.
Beau Baron Sponsors
Polaris, Maxxis/H&M Motorsports, Holz, Sparks,
Walker Evans Racing, Tire Blocks, Atvriders.com,
ProMotorsports, Shoei, Eks Brand Goggles
Mitch Guthrie Jr. Sponsors
Polaris, Walker Evans, Nelson and Nelson racing,
Muzzys Performance, Maxxis, Tireballs, Super ATV,
Southwest Ground Control, Impact, UTVUnderground.
RJ Anderson Sponsors
Polaris Rzr, Holz Racing Products, LoanMart, Walker
Evans Racing, Muzzys Performance, Utendorfer design,
ProLine wraps, SouthPoint, Rigid Industries, Polaris
Engineered Lubricants
Ronnie Anderson Sponsors
Polaris, UTVUnderground, Walker Evans Racing,
Carr-One, Vision X, GBC Motorsports and RJ37.com.
About Polaris
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industry with annual 2014 sales of $4.5 billion.
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and RZR® side-by-side vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles
and on-road electric/hybrid powered vehicles.
Polaris is among the global
sales leaders for both snowmobiles and off-road
vehicles and has established a presence in the
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with the Victory® and Indian Motorcycle® and Slingshot®
brands. Additionally, Polaris continues to invest
in the global on-road small electric/hybrid powered
vehicle industry with Global Electric Motorcars
(GEM), Goupil Industrie SA, Aixam Mega S.A.S.,
and internally developed vehicles. Polaris enhances
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at polaris.com
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