The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
Prior to the 1978 season, Jerry Bunke and one of his sleds were tapped to do some wind tunnel testing. The results came back too
Progress! Doors are now all up to snuff and all the body work that needed to be patched, welded or cleaned up is done!
Bob Przekwas, Loren Zutz, Ronnie Zutz, Burt Bassett, Wes Pesek and Mark Johnson placed 2nd through 8th in the 1976 Winnipeg to St. Paul Race.
By popular demand we have added Starfire Kids – Midnight Blue Express decals to the store! 7″ X 2″, they are perfect for your car,
At the first SnoPro race of the year, it wasn’t clear that Polaris would emerge as the dominant force in racing for the year; most
Nick named “the professor” because he was attending college when he began his career at Polaris as a Starfire Kids, Stan Hayes won the grueling
My new best friend Ryan Koenig was on a journey to the motherland of Roseau to find parts for his rear-engine project when he ran
The Polaris Race trailer was used for many years after 1978. Totally makes sense, since at the time it was the most well-equipped snowmobile racing
Well last week we managed to raise the estimated $10,000 needed to restore the original Polaris Race Trailer in just a few days, thanks to
A couple more trailer photos! Help us get it restored! Share the link to our GoFundMe campaign for the Hall of Fame today! https://www.gofundme.com/polarisracetrailer First
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.
