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Sydney ‘FishWitch’ Sheppard Hits the 100,000-Mile Mark on Her Victory
Sydney Sheppard – aka “FishWitch” – recently passed a major milestone on her 2005 50th Anniversary Kingpin, which she purchased from Arlen Ness Victory in Dublin, California. “On November 14, 2008, just shy of owning my bike three years, the odometer turned over to 100,000 sMiles!” Syd reported. “I...
RANGER RZR Race Teams Shine in Muddy Heartland Challenge UTV Enduro
The Polaris RANGER RZR continues its winning ways, this time taking two of the three podium spots at the first-annual Heartland Challenge UTV endurance race in Carlisle, Iowa. In the three-hour UTV race, Polaris Regional Sales Manager Matt Lube and Steve Muncur won the 850cc Stock class and finish...
Polaris Offers Snocross Fans FREE Pit Passes for ISOC National Races
Participating Polaris Dealers Have Passes That Provide FREE Pit Access Polaris is helping snocross fans get close to their favorite racers by offering a limited number of FREE passes into the pit area at Amsoil Championship Snocross Series (ACSS) races on the ISOC race circuit. Rac...
Outlaws Become International Power With Wins on Multiple Continents
The Polaris Outlaw continues to outperform international competition and rack up wins for Polaris and Polaris racers. Outlaws recently won a Dutch Championship and took all three podium spots in the Rallye des Pharaons – the Pharaohs Rally – in Egypt. They also won or placed well in several addition...
Polaris RANGER RZR Takes 2008 Racing Season by Storm
Jagged X, Eichner and Yokley Win Series The Polaris RANGER RZR has emerged as a true force in the racing world as it has been piloted to 2008 season titles in the Best in the Desert, WORCS and GNCC racing circuits. “Polaris Racing is very excited to have three series champio...
Polaris Racers Doug Eichner & Angela Butler Clinch WORCS Season Points Titles
Off-road racing legend Doug Eichner made history in his RANGER RZR on October 25 as he clinched his first World Off-Road Championship Series (WORCS) UTV season points championship. It was his first season for the ATV legend to race a UTV, and he clinched the title with his strong performance in the...
THE WORLD’S FASTEST VICTORY: MBW-Lloyd’s Victory Runs 147.53 mph
A Victory straight-line speed run bike built by Matt Waring of MBW Motorcycle Products and Lloyd Greer of Lloydz Motor Workz posted a top speed of 147.53343 mph on October 26, 2008, during an East Coast Timing Assn. (ECTA) meet at the Maxton (N.C.) Airfield. This story is developing and we’ll repor...
Outlaw Racer Landon Hurst Earns a Podium Position in Tough Pismo Enduro
Landon Hurst piloted his Outlaw 450MXR to a second-place Pro finish at the famous Pismo Beach Race at Oceano Dunes in Pismo Beach, California, on October 12. The impressive podium finish is a testament to the strength of Hurst and the durability of the Outlaw. In endurance racing in the sand, the t...
Godspeed, Victory Rider Sgt. Michael K. Clark
Three sentences. Sixty-three words. One life. The news, the bad news, was already being spread via e-mails, phone calls and forum threads on www.thevmc.com, but there was no confirmation from the government. Maybe it simply wasn’t true. No such luck. On October 15, the Department of Defense ...
Jagged X/Polaris Racing Wins Silver State 300 in BITD Racing
The Jagged X/Polaris Racing Number 1919 RANGER RZR team of Brandon Schueler and Blake Van De Loo pulled off another win at the Bilek Racing Silver State 300, held September 26-28, in Mesquite, Nevada. The race was part of the Best in the Desert (BITD) 2008 schedule. The Mesquite venue was billed ...
RANGER RZR Goes 1-2-3 at Honey Lake WORCS Race; Butler Wins Again
The RANGER RZR dominated the side-by-side podium in the September 27-28 WORCS Racing event at Milford, California, and ATV racer Angela Butler won her seventh-straight event to sew up the season points title. The racing, Round 7 of the WORCS schedule, was held at the Honey Lake Motocross Park. In t...
Look for Victory at the International Motorcycle Shows Across Canada
Victory will have a new display at the International Motorcycle Shows (IMS) across Canada and all Victory Riders are invited to attend these shows to see what’s new from Victory. The new Victory display will feature: • The 2009 Victory Motorcycle lineup – including the Kingpin Low, the three mode...
‘Sand Riot 2008’ at Glamis Postponed; Watch for New Dates
The second-annual “Sand Riot” at the Imperial Sand Dunes, Glamis, California, which was to be presented by Polaris in conjunction with H-Bomb Films, has been postponed. New event dates will be announced as soon as they are confirmed. ...
Eichner Scorches ITP Competition on Polaris Outlaw 525 S, Holds Points Lead
Polaris/Lonestar/Eichner Racing star Doug Eichner shrugged off brutal daytime temperatures and maintained his cool en route to winning the Open Pro class in ITP QuadCross Series action September 20 at Arizona Speedworld in Wittman, Arizona, just northwest of Phoenix. It was Round 7 of the ITP sched...
View of the New I-35W Bridge from the Seat of a Victory Vision Street
The new I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis opened Thursday morning, September 18. It’s an impressive structure, and its construction – taking just 13 months since the previous bridge collapsed on August 1, 2007 – was remarkable. Crews worked virtually around the clock ...
Factory Polaris/Rath Racer Frank Batista Earns Spot on Snowshoe Mountain GNCC Podium
First-Year Utility Class Racer Finishes Second in Open Utility 4x4 Class The Factory Polaris/Rath/Dunlop Team headed from Minnesota to another well-known winter haven, Snowshoe Mountain, last weekend to compete in the Round 10 GNCC Cross Country event. This may be a ski resort, but last wee...
Polaris to Provide Factory Support for Yokley Racing/National Guard GNCC Team
Yokley to race Polaris Outlaw and RANGER RZR in GNCC Polaris announced that Polaris Racing will support the Yokey Racing/National Guard race team for the 2009 Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) season. “We’re excited to add the Yokley Racing/National Guard race team to our ...
Polaris Unveils 2008-2009 Snocross Race Sled
Snowmobile journalists got an early look at the new 2009 Polaris 600 IQ® Race Sled at a special media event on Friday, September 5 at the site of Haydays, the official start of winter. Magazine editors and website editors met with Polaris executives and engineers to get a look at the sled that wen...
Slednecks-Piloted Polaris Sleds Rev Up Action in New Vin Diesel Film
Slednecks Aces Soar on Polaris Race Sleds in ‘Babylon A.D.’ When you combine two names that are synonymous with “action” – actor Vin Diesel and Slednecks, the extreme snowmobile video company – the result is Polaris snowmobiles flipping and flying high above Sweden in the new action mov...
Polaris Outlaw Shines in France; Revoy Earns Place on National Team
Michkaël Revoy of France steered his Outlaw 450 MXR to Polaris France’s first French title in the Quad Cross National Class. Revoy raced his 450 MXR in almost stock condition and won the title in his rookie year, which promoted him to the official French Team. Revoy will tackle the famed Pont de ...
Polaris ATV Racer Angela Butler Podiums at AMA Race in Pennsylvania
With the WORCS racing season on break, Angela Butler packed up her Outlaw 450 MXR and traveled east for the AMA ATV Motocross Nationals race at Pleasure Valley Raceway in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She made the trip worthwhile, earning a spot on the podium with a third-place finish in the Pro-Am Wome...
To All Victory Riders: Happy Birthday!
Ten years ago, on July 4, 1998, 14 members of the Polaris/Victory staff at the company’s Spirit Lake, Iowa, manufacturing plant went into the plant on their day off and built the first Victory production model. It was a Saturday and it was a holiday, the Fourth of July. But the employees knew they ...
Daryl Rath Reaches the Podium Again in GNCC Racing; John Gallagher, Sr., Wins, Leads in Points
Polaris ATV racer Daryl Rath is getting used to being on the podium. For the second straight round of GNCC Racing, he finished third to earn a spot on the stand. The latest strong showing came in the GNCC’s Round 8, the Elka Yadkin Valley Stomp, held at the Welborn Family Farm in Yadkinville, North...
Father's Day Flashback to Tim 'Roadkill' Werder's Epic Father-Son Victory Vacation
Father’s Day seems like a fitting time to flash back nearly 10 years to recall a great Father-Son motorcycle adventure, and to pay tribute to the Father on that trip – who just happens to be the world’s highest-mileage Victory Rider. Well known in the global Victory community, that mileage master ...
Daryl Rath Puts a Polaris Sportsman on the Podium at GNCC’s Round 7
Daryl Rath, who is respected for his technical expertise and race bike building skills as well as for his ATV racing prowess, put a Polaris Sportsman on the podium at the GNCC’s Round 7 on the 2008 schedule. Rath placed third in the Utility Open Class and came in 56th overall from among 300+ racers...
Angela Butler Continues Her Winning Ways on WORCS Circuit
Angela Butler continued her incredible undefeated season with another dominating victory in the Women’s A class in the fifth round of World Off Road Championship Series (WORCS) at Hollister Hills, California on May 16. Butler, who has won all five rounds of WORCS competition so far this season, also...
Victory’s Mark Blackwell Honored as One of Industry’s Top Executives
Vice President Victory Motorcycles & International Operations Mark Blackwell was named one of the 2008 Industry Leaders by Powersports Business magazine. Blackwell was one of five powersports industry executives recognized by the magazine in its April 21, 2008 issue. Blackwell is the third Polaris ...
The Wins Keep Coming for Polaris ATV & Side by Side Racers
Team High Lifter-Polaris Racing Shines at Mud Nationals in Texas; Polaris/Lone Star/Eichner Racing Team Racks Up Wins in ITP QuadCross at Arizona Two of the premier Polaris off-road racing teams added big victories to their 2008 resumes recently. The Team High Lifter-Polar...
Supertrax Crew Has Great Time With Polaris Snow Staff on SHIFT Visit
Supertrax Magazine held a promotion over the winter – The SHIFT FREE RIDE – in which one Canadian winner and one U.S. winner would win a free Polaris Shift 600 snowmobile. The winners also received expenses-paid trips to Roseau, Minnesota, birthplace of Polaris and home of the Polaris snowmobile...
World Champion Doug Eichner Extends Racing Relationship with Polaris
The future of Polaris ATV racing got even brighter this week when Polaris and Doug Eichner, a Polaris factory racer and pro ATV racing legend, agreed to an extension Eichner’s racing commitment with the company. Eichner is now under contract to race the Polaris Outlaw in WORCS and other selected rac...
Polaris to Field Strong Lineup of 2008 RANGER Race Teams
As the opportunity to race side-by-sides increases, Polaris is on the leading edge of the sport and will field several extremely strong RANGER race teams in 2008 on the leading off-road racing circuits. The Polaris RANGER race teams plan to build on their impressive 2007 performances on circuits su...