The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
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
Craig Rollins was a star-stuck sixteen year old kid at the race at Bass Park in Bangor, Maine in 1977. “I don’t think I’ll ever
I love this photo. It was taken early in the morning of the first day of racing at the Dayco Holiday Spectacular in Alexandria, Minnesota
Raw, unedited footage of the Snopro races in Waldheim, Saskatchewan in 1979. After the 1978 season, the Polaris factory pulled the plug on the factory
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.
