The Polaris racing blog and the ongoing chronicle of the amazing men and machines of the Polaris Professional Race Team from author Larry Preston.
Thorsen 1977 World Championship Sled Unleashed! After the 1977 race season, the kids began plotting and planning how they would hold on to the Midnight
TEAM FRUSTRATION REUNION This past weekend, one of the best independent race teams to ever race snowmobiles got together for the first time in a
BARN FINDS! The internet is the gift that keeps on giving! Over the last year or so, a lot of very cool sleds have shown
Some Random Photos of the Kids Today Racing has a way of making rivals friends. Ski-Doo and Yamaha racer and two-time World Champion Mike Trapp,
Erwin Andrew Nelson passed away on April 19, 2019, at his home in Roseau at the age of 91. I was lucky enough to interview
An RXL greeted you as you walked in the door of Recreational Engineering in Eden Valley, MN. The Man, The Myth and The Legend, Doug
The Polaris X-3 During the speed wars of the early 1970s, big budgets allowed factory engineers and racers to build the best they could think
1970 World Record X-2 On March 14th, 1970, in West Yellowstone, Montana, Polaris gained the upper hand in racing when Mike Baker pushed the X-2
For the 1969 race season, Polaris got their first batch of the new motors they had worked together with Fuji Industries of Japan to create.
Not a lot of details on this rare, 1968 twin-engine factory racer, other than that Tony Burkel won at least one race on it in
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.
