I just bought a 1000xp 2 seater. I used to race quads til I lost my leg in a auto accident. I would like to maybe try and run the rzr at a few races, an attempt to get the same adrenaline rush I got racing before I lost my leg. I have read the score and gncc rules for getting my car ready. My question is what is a good series or race that is more for amateurs and beginners?? Who is a good person to contact regarding the series??? I live outside StLouis MO in southern IL. My cousin has an 800 and is also very interested in doing this with me. If I can get some help finding a good series or race for my skill level ( which is none) then I can make sure the car is compliant with that particular race or series rules. Not really wanting to travel 2000 miles, but 500 to 600 or 5 to 6 hours would be cool. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just wanna race without dropping $30k and cutting my bike apart. Just wanna have fun! Just need a point in the right direction.

Minneapolis, August 26, 2015-Team UXC Racing would come to the GBC Motorsports Heartland 10-hour Challenge fielding teams in Pro 4×4, 40+ Class, C Class, UTV and the inaugural single-seat class and would podium in four of the five events.

In Pro 4×4, Michael Swift, Kevin Trantham and Michael Burrows would dominate the class from the onset taking the lead and never looking back. Even with the race being cut short due to severe weather, the team would win the race with more than a lap separating them from the next finisher, and finish an impressive third in the overall. Team UXC Racing’s Don Higbee and Graham Widdicombe would take the 40+ Class win on their Scrambler as well.

Swift and Trantham, with passenger Becky Widdicombe, would tackle the UTV race in their RZR S 900 EPS. Trantham would start the race in fifth and both racers would continue to gain ground during the 4-hour race and finish in a respectable second.

In the inaugural hour and a half, single-seat class, Team UXC’s Torey Rush would take first with Josh Copeland in second in their ACE 570s. Jesi Stracham in her special-built, Racer Tech ACE 570 would finish third.

2015 Vegas to Reno was 545 miles, this year the UTV class started behind the trucks and cars later in the morning, rather than early in the morning behind the motorcycles and quads. Starting early means we get a nicer course and we didn’t have that luxury this time, so we anticipated a much rougher race as those big cars and trucks really tear up the course and bring up rocks and silt. My normal co-driver Justin Sheakley started the race in the driver’s seat and had Brandon Hong of Sparks Performance Products co-driving for him. I planned on getting in the car at around race mile 250 with my co-driver Victor Herrera. Our game plan was thatSheakley needed to deliver me a good car but also try not to let anyone get too far out on us, as we started the race in 8th position.

Just before pit 1 Sheakley enter a silty area with a g-out and a rock must have caught the edge of the skid plate just right and ripped the front of it down and was dragging the ground. Both guys got out of the car to see what all the noise was, saw the skid plate dragging and then jumped back in the car and came in to pit 1 where we unbolted the skid plate and sent them back on their way. After pit 2 Sheakley and Brandon caught up to the Supercross car which was driving on 3 tires and 1 wheel, the car was all over the road still trying to move forward, and stirring up a lot of dust. Sheakley lost visual on Supercross in a dust cloud and when they came thru it they realized the Supercross car was stopped in the middle of the road, Sheakley hit the skids but couldn’t avoid rear ending Poelman, everyone was fine. In the meantime in pit 3, we modified the skid plate and when the car came into pit 3, we bolted it backon, took fuel, and they were off again. I was shaking my head at this point knowing that we had most likely just lost the chances of winning the race, but still felt we could earn a podium, we just lost about 20 minutes.

Things were going well at this point, until in the chase truck we got a call on the radio from the race car that they were stuck together with Cody Nygren at race mile 150, about 6 miles before pit 4. They had followed Cody for a few miles in the dust, and figured Cody didn’t know they were there, or he just didn’t want to move over,on the sirenSheakley came close for a nerf and something didn’t go as planned and the 2 cars tangled together and were stuck, thankfully no one was hurt. After about 10 minutes, they got unstuck and proceeded, but Brandon called in and said something was wrong in the front end. We figured broken axle or bent tie rod. The car came into pit 4 and we quickly realized the steering rack was bent. The rack is not easy to change, but we went to work on it as a team and got it apart, spare rack installed, and back together in about 25 minutes, took fuel, and they were on their way again.

We figured at this point we were about an hour behind whoever was leading, we are shaking our heads as we were confident coming into this race that we were going to win. We moved on up the highway in the chase, making sure not to get too far away from the race car in case something else popped up. We arrivedin the chase truckto pit 7 in angst as Victor and I suited up to get ready to get inthe car and finish this race off. The car came in and we did scheduled checks and maintenance, switched duties, and we were off again into the desert. The course was pretty chewed up and there were large rocks peppering the course, Jim chimed in on the radio and told me to take it easy as we needed a finish to stay in the championship points contention. I took it easy for about ten miles, and a 7200 truck was coming up behind us about a quarter mile back. I pulled over and slowed a bit so he could get by and then we jumped back on course. This truck must have been having an issue as they did not drive away from us like we thought they would, we were eating their dust for ten miles, then came a canyon with some twisty roads and that is where the RZR really shines, we started getting closer and closer and then we were on the siren and on his bumper, he probably didn’t know we were there as he didn’t move over so we gave him a nerf and he moved over immediately for us, as we took off! At this point I had settled in and was focused, I was pouring it on, it was getting dark and we were hauling ass! We ended up catching another truck and then another class 10 car, they moved over fine since it was now dark and we had our light bar on, they could see us easy and moved right over.

We came thru a pit and I don’t even know which one it was, I was so focused, but there were a couple UTV’s in pit so we were picking up positions. Then oncourse we came across some nasty silt beds, and another UTV, and thencame across Simms standing on top of his car stopped in the silt bed, not sure what happened, we went around and kept moving. We came thru Gabbs which was the pit at race mile 406, our pittold us that Scanlon was in pit still, and that Murray and Schueler had just left5 minutes earlier. We realized that we were chasing down a podium at this point, there was still 140 miles left to race, we were on the pipe! The next 25 miles was hilly and had a lot of rollers and washouts down in the g-outs in between the rollers. A couple times I could see blue flashing lights miles ahead, then they would disappear, I knew we were catching these guys. 5 more miles went by and I didn’t see any more lights until we came around a hill to the right and then I could see the flashing blue again, but this time closer, we were closing in. 5 more miles and we were within 100 yards of a UTV, with another UTVabout 50 yards in front of them. It was Murray and Schueler, Schueler pulled over to let Murray pass and then pulled over again ten seconds later to let uspass;now I had Murray in my sights in that turbo Canam, we made it happen and got close enough and they pulled over for us. This was extremely dangerous following them like this, as there were rocks everywhere and I couldn’t see what was coming next until I had clean air. With clean air we were back on the pipe and not sure if we had just passed for the lead or if there were 5 more cars ahead of us, we just didn’t know, but we were not slowing down, we had a podium in our sights.

At roughly mile 460, Yancey’s car was pulled over they looked to be changing an axle. We kept charging and around mile 495 I started smelling a little bit of burnt oil, I am think oh great now what? I figured we are going to finish or burn it down, and I was prepared to do both. 5 more miles and we start to see a little bit of dust in the air and the oil smell again, and then we figured the oil must be coming from someone in front of us, well we were hoping it was anyway. At about race mile 505 we see a blue light ahead, we didn’t even say anything to each other, we didn’t want to jinx anything;we were catching the blue light. Another mile and we caught the blue light but it wasn’t flashing, I believe it was a class 2000, we said oh well and passed and kept right along, the oil smell was still there so I was hoping and praying. Then we start to see some dust again, but it is windy so we can’tsee any lights, all of a sudden we come around a hill and I see a blue light again. Victor asked if it was flashing, I said no way it must be another truck, as we got closerthe blue was flashing, it was the lead UTV, the S3 turbo Canam limping along at about 25 mph, and then we knew where the oil smell was coming from. We blew past them and had about 35 miles to go till the finish, the oil smell was gone, we couldn’t slow down, we started 8thand the 3 UTV’swe just passed started way back, we knew we had to beat them to the finish line by 15 minutes to be safe and cover the calculated time difference. We drove fast, smart, agile, yet risky that last 30 miles and came across the finish first. We waited at the podium watching the clock, we were nervous, the next UTVto come across was Murrays and the news came in that there was not another UTVclose enough to beat us, we just won Vegas to Reno.

Thank you to all my sponsors for making this win possible

Justin Lambert,
Pro UTV Racer

Facebook: @Justin Lambert
Instagram: @jlcognito

Sorry instead of typing the info again plz check out my other thread!!

Possible UTV Event at Breeze Wood Proving Grounds (P.A) – Polaris RZR Forum – RZR Forums.net

Minneapolis, August 18, 2015-Best in the Desert’s (BITD) Vegas to Reno is the longest off-road race in the U.S. and more than 50 UTVs would line up to represent the three UTV classes.

Polaris Factory Racer Justin Lambert and co-driver Justin Sheakley in the No. 1918 Cognito Motorsports RZR 4 1000 would tackle the dusty 545-mile race in just over 13 hours. It wouldn’t be completely smooth sailing for the team as they would have some downtime due to a collision with another car. They were able to make up the deficit and finish first in the Pro class on corrected time. Polaris Factory Racer Brandon Schueler in the Jagged X No. 1919 would also represent Polaris on the podium in third place. The top five Pro finishers would include four RZRs including the new RZR XP Turbo EPS driven by Polaris Factory Racer and UTV Inc.’s Johnny Angal who built the car in 12 days and finished fifth.

The lone finisher in the Pro Unlimited Class was the No. 2909 RZR of Lacretia Buerrier who continues to lead the class.

Justin Lambert is sponsored by Polaris, Cognito Motorsports, Sparks Performance Products, Mystik Lubricants, Fox Shocks, ITP Tires, Method Race Wheels, Rugged Radios and Rigid Industries.

Johnny Angal is sponsored by Polaris, ITP Tires, Method Race Wheels, Rigid Industries Lights, Fox IBP Shocks, Lone Star Suspension, wrap by Wolf Designs.

Jagged X is sponsored by Polaris, Muzzy Performance, Walker Evans Racing, OMF Performance, Factory UTV, Cutting Edge Manufacturing, Vision X Off Road Lighting Systems, Polaris Racing Lubricants, UTV Underground, Mountain States Contracting.

Minneapolis, August 5, 2015-For the first time in Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) history, the league headed south of the border to Ensenada, Baja California Mexico for Rounds 11 and 12 of the 2015 race season.

It has been more than a decade since short course-style racing was hosted in Estero Beach, and the newly-designed Baja International Short Course track hosted the series biggest names and drew thousands of fans from all over Mexico and the United States.

RJ Anderson and the RJ37 team came into Round 11 sitting in a respectable sixth in points in the Pro-2 class. Even though Anderson has run up front for much of the year, the season has been filled with highs and lows for the team. Despite only one podium appearance, Anderson has led multiple races and has showed tremendous speed, consistently qualifying in the top 5 in the No. 37 Polaris RZR Pro-2. Coming into the weekend, the team hoped for a little bit of luck to help Anderson capture his first win of his career in the sport’s premier class.

Track conditions were anything but ideal at Estero Beach Baja International Race Track. The sand-filled dirt of Estero Beach presented a challenge for track officials to keep prepped between races. The RJ37 team struggled to find the right set up for Estero Beach, and after qualifying ninth in Pro-2, the team went to work on gearing and suspension prior to the afternoons race.

When the race started, Anderson took his time and fought his way through the rough course and ferocious field of the sport’s best off-road racers. He finished the race in fifth place and headed into Sunday’s round 12 confident his team had found the setup needed to compete for a win.

Qualifying in Pro-2 went much better on Sunday for Anderson as he had the fifth fastest time on track and drew a No. 6 inversion putting him on the front row next to racing legend Rob MacCachren. This was exactly the type of lucky break the team had hoped for. At the start, Anderson rocketed off the start and pulled ahead of MacCachren in turn two.

Anderson and MacCachren battled furiously back and forth for several laps, but eventually Anderson pulled away and never looked back. After a late race yellow flag restart, he fought off Pro-2 Champion Bryce Menzies and soared to his first Pro-2 victory.

"A lot of hard work and dedication has gone into achieving my first Pro-2 win. I’ll hang onto this memory for the rest of my life. I am really stoked I got to share the victory with my family, friends, sponsors and team. Without them none of this would be possible," said Anderson.

Anderson also would take the Pro-Lite points by taking a first and third in the class to add to his successful weekend.

LOORRS Rounds 13 and 14 will be held in Sparks, Nevada, at Wild West Motorsports Park, on August 22-23, 2015.

Minneapolis, August 5, 2015-For the first time in Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) history, the league headed south of the border to Ensenada, Baja California Mexico for Rounds 11 and 12 of the 2015 race season.

It has been more than a decade since short course-style racing was hosted in Estero Beach, and the newly-designed Baja International Short Course track hosted the series biggest names and drew thousands of fans from all over Mexico and the United States.

RJ Anderson and the RJ37 team came into Round 11 sitting in a respectable sixth in points in the Pro-2 class. Even though Anderson has run up front for much of the year, the season has been filled with highs and lows for the team. Despite only one podium appearance, Anderson has led multiple races and has showed tremendous speed, consistently qualifying in the top 5 in the No. 37 Polaris RZR Pro-2. Coming into the weekend, the team hoped for a little bit of luck to help Anderson capture his first win of his career in the sport’s premier class.

Track conditions were anything but ideal at Estero Beach Baja International Race Track. The sand-filled dirt of Estero Beach presented a challenge for track officials to keep prepped between races. The RJ37 team struggled to find the right set up for Estero Beach, and after qualifying ninth in Pro-2, the team went to work on gearing and suspension prior to the afternoons race.

When the race started, Anderson took his time and fought his way through the rough course and ferocious field of the sport’s best off-road racers. He finished the race in fifth place and headed into Sunday’s round 12 confident his team had found the setup needed to compete for a win.

Qualifying in Pro-2 went much better on Sunday for Anderson as he had the fifth fastest time on track and drew a No. 6 inversion putting him on the front row next to racing legend Rob MacCachren. This was exactly the type of lucky break the team had hoped for. At the start, Anderson rocketed off the start and pulled ahead of MacCachren in turn two.

Anderson and MacCachren battled furiously back and forth for several laps, but eventually Anderson pulled away and never looked back. After a late race yellow flag restart, he fought off Pro-2 Champion Bryce Menzies and soared to his first Pro-2 victory.

"A lot of hard work and dedication has gone into achieving my first Pro-2 win. I’ll hang onto this memory for the rest of my life. I am really stoked I got to share the victory with my family, friends, sponsors and team. Without them none of this would be possible," said Anderson.

Anderson also would take the Pro-Lite points by taking a first and third in the class to add to his successful weekend.

LOORRS Rounds 13 and 14 will be held in Sparks, Nevada, at Wild West Motorsports Park, on August 22-23, 2015.

Minneapolis, August 4, 2015- Polaris RZRs would dominate WORCS Round 7 which consisted of a regular-style WORCS race followed by a special enduro-cross style race on Saturday night.

For the WORCS Straddleline race, Polaris Factory Racers Ryan Piplic and Beau Baron would go one, two in the SxS Pro Class with Mickey Thomas, also racing a RZR, taking third.

In SxS Pro Stock, the podium also would be dominated by RZRs with Ronnie Anderson taking the win, Ray Bulloch in second and Ryan Holz in third. In SxS Unlimited Polaris Factory Racer Mitch Guthrie Jr. would take the top spot with Mark Holz and Jeff Obering filling out the podium. In Single-Seat racing, three Polaris ACEs would hit the WORCS track with Jacob Shaw taking the win, Brian Haag in second and Ronnie Anderson in third.

The enduro-cross WORCS X race would also see RZRs taking all the podium spots in the SxS Pro and SxS Pro Stock classes. In SxS Pro, David Haagsma would take the win with Polaris Factory Racer Mitch Guthrie Jr. taking second and Mickey Thomas in third. In SxS Pro Stock, Codey Rowley, Jacob Shaw and Ray Bulloch would take the top three spots.

The next WORCS race is Devore, Calif., September 25-27.

Ryan Piplic is sponsored by Polaris, Nelson & Nelson, Maxxis tires, Fox Shocks, Muzzys, Method race wheels, Rugged radios, Beard Race Seats, Antigravity batteries and Tire Blocks.

Beau Baron is sponsored by Polaris, Maxxis/H&M Motorsports, Holz, Sparks, Walker Evans Racing, Tire Blocks, Atvriders.com, ProMotorsports, Shoei, Eks Brand Goggles

Mitch Guthrie Jr. is sponsored by Polaris, Walker Evans, Nelson and Nelson racing, Muzzys Performance, Maxxis, Tireballs, Super ATV, Southwest Ground Control, Impact, UTVUnderground.

Ronnie Anderson’s Polaris ACE is sponsored by Polaris, UTVUnderground, Walker Evans Racing, Carr-One, Vision X, GBC Motorsports and RJ37.com.

Minneapolis, August 4, 2015- Polaris RZRs would dominate WORCS Round 7 which consisted of a regular-style WORCS race followed by a special enduro-cross style race on Saturday night.

For the WORCS Straddleline race, Polaris Factory Racers Ryan Piplic and Beau Baron would go one, two in the SxS Pro Class with Mickey Thomas, also racing a RZR, taking third.

In SxS Pro Stock, the podium also would be dominated by RZRs with Ronnie Anderson taking the win, Ray Bulloch in second and Ryan Holz in third. In SxS Unlimited Polaris Factory Racer Mitch Guthrie Jr. would take the top spot with Mark Holz and Jeff Obering filling out the podium. In Single-Seat racing, three Polaris ACEs would hit the WORCS track with Jacob Shaw taking the win, Brian Haag in second and Ronnie Anderson in third.

The enduro-cross WORCS X race would also see RZRs taking all the podium spots in the SxS Pro and SxS Pro Stock classes. In SxS Pro, David Haagsma would take the win with Polaris Factory Racer Mitch Guthrie Jr. taking second and Mickey Thomas in third. In SxS Pro Stock, Codey Rowley, Jacob Shaw and Ray Bulloch would take the top three spots.

The next WORCS race is Devore, Calif., September 25-27.

Ryan Piplic is sponsored by Polaris, Nelson & Nelson, Maxxis tires, Fox Shocks, Muzzys, Method race wheels, Rugged radios, Beard Race Seats, Antigravity batteries and Tire Blocks.

Beau Baron is sponsored by Polaris, Maxxis/H&M Motorsports, Holz, Sparks, Walker Evans Racing, Tire Blocks, Atvriders.com, ProMotorsports, Shoei, Eks Brand Goggles

Mitch Guthrie Jr. is sponsored by Polaris, Walker Evans, Nelson and Nelson racing, Muzzys Performance, Maxxis, Tireballs, Super ATV, Southwest Ground Control, Impact, UTVUnderground.

Ronnie Anderson’s Polaris ACE is sponsored by Polaris, UTVUnderground, Walker Evans Racing, Carr-One, Vision X, GBC Motorsports and RJ37.com.

Hey everyone, I’m looking for a good racing series, and/or a track I can practice at in Kentucky somewhere? I’m in Louisville. I’m fully aware of the mud and rock racing, and I’m not interested in any of that. I’m looking for something more along he lines of GNCC style racing, or short course motocross type tracks. Anyone know of anything? I’ve searched around and couldent come up with anything.

Thanks,
-Dan