POLARIS RACING BLOG
The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
When the Starfire Kids arrived in Ironwood, Michigan in December of 1973 to begin the 1974 Sno-Pro season, they, like everyone else, were seeing the
After the accident that claimed Jerry Bunke, Polaris pulled the plug on the most effective factory race team in motorsports. So the team packed up
How Many Polaris RXLs Were Made? Well that is a good question that I get asked about several times per week. Our friend Ryan Koenig
So what’s a Yamaha doing on Starfirekids.com? Simple. These little monsters dominated the 440 class in the original, 1974 Sno-Pro series. Larry Rugland described them
My whole fascination with the Polaris Race Team started in December of 1974. The story is detailed in the first chapter. This photo shows me
A friend emailed me a picture one day that contained a juicy mystery: Jim Bernat had two IFS sleds in 1977. We knew Jim Bernat
Jim Beilke of Race & Rally magazine (now Snowtech Magazine) took these iconic photos in 1974 at Ironwood, Michigan. Reverend Larry Rugland and Most of
In Eagle River, Wisconsin, in 1977, Brad Hulings and Steve Thorsen were still driving leaf-spring front-end machines, when the rest of the team sleds had
Another Midnight Blue Express mystery solved! In photos from the late 1977 races in Alaska and Kinross Michigan, if you look really close, you can
Starfire Kids Midnight Blue Express is the unauthorized and previously untold true story of the people from Roseau, Minnesota and the machines they built to find fame and fortune in the brutal, challenging, and often very dangerous sport of snowmobile racing in the 1960s and 1970s.