The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
This is the paint scheme we are going to use on the restoration of the Polaris race trailer. This is from 1978, and it’s more
I am happy to announce the Snowmobile Hall of Fame is running a GoFundMe campaign to raise $10,000 to preserve and restore the original Polaris
Poster made for the Polaris 50th Anniversary – 1978 edition. Features Jerry Bunke, Steve Thorsen and Brad Hulings, along with some very notable “Midnight Blue
Jim Beilke of Race & Rally magazine decided in 1974 that Minnesota really needed to have a big time snowmobile race like Wisconsin. So he
The budget for the Polaris race team was cut in half for 1975 from the record high budget in 1974. Regardless, 1975 would be another
If you were a kid in 1978, the ads from Bates Leathers made you want to race about as much as the sleds, the smell
1970 was a fantastic year for Polaris racing with Greg Grahn, Mike Baker, Ray Monsrud, Leroy Lindblad, Gerry Reece, Bob Eastman, Jim Bernat, Darrel Courtright,
Steve “I’ll build my tractors” Thorsen, leading Jerry Bunke on his way to his first World Championship, January 1977. Note the broken ski tip about
Bob Eastman and Dorothy Mercer in West Yellowstone, 1973. Bob won the 300cc class, but had to chase Larry Coltom’s fast Cats in 340 and
Eagle River, 1978. Looks like a heat race for the World Championship. Jerry Bunke battling Bob Elsner on his Cat.
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.
