The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
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
Okay these are terrible prints, but there are so few photos that I will take what I can get! These are all taken by Jim
This photo was taken in the 1990’s at one of the previous homes of the Snowmobile Hall of Fame, now permanently located in St. Germaine,
The Eagle River World Championship is the most sought after title in all of oval snowmobile racing. It’s been that way since Stan Hayes first
In 2002, working some very talented people, I finished the restoration of my first 1978 Polaris RXL. Al Enno, Doug Monson, my brother “Doc Jim”
Larry Rugland was a man on fire in 1975 – winning more than his fair share of the money, trophies and press. Eagle River was
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.
