The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
Two good photos from Eagle River, 1975 featuring Jim Bernat (269) on the outside of Doug Hayes (Absolutely an honorary Starfire Kid!) on his 440.
In 1969, Polaris was still working with variety of engine providers, so headed into the ’69 race season they were using a variety of German
The best of the best lined up to do battle for the 1977 Eagle River World Championship. If you read the story of this race
Some rumors have been swirling about Reverend Rugland’s medical condition, and tonight I spoke to his wife Kathy to set the record straight. Last Sunday
New information has come to light from Thee Starfire Kid – Bob Eastman. When the team went to Alaska for testing in October of 1976,
1975 was arguably Larry Rugland’s best year as a Polaris factory racer. He would win the overall points total for the year with impressive wins
In 1968, the team made some special racers that featured the giant grill on the front that came to be known as the “Cow-Catcher”. It
Todd Elmer, 1981. Driving one of just three 79 RXL’s built by Rugland and Hedlund. These three machines were sent into battle with Rotax motors
Amazing photo that showed up on another website of the rare and elusive 1975 factory oval PDC sleds. In the photo, left to right, Omdahl’s
Polaris built only a couple sleds in the way of an exotic racer for 1967 – most went into battle with modified Colts. But two
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.
