Georgian Downs in Barrie, Ontario played host to one of the Largest CSRA events on the Circuit and National Round 3. Racing started Under the Lights Friday night, with racing Saturday and Sunday as well.

The Superbowl didn’t stop fans from coming out and witnessing the great racing as the grandstands were filled inside and out all weekend. Struggling at the start of the weekend, Supertrax Magazine/ Byers Motorsports/Polaris’ Jamie Byers was able to bring it together in the end.

Friday night hosted a new class called Pro-Am, combining Semi-Pro and Pro racers on their Mod sleds. In moto 1, Jamie had a good run, skiing out the huge finish-line double, finishing 4th.

He finished 5th in Moto 2 and started front row in the final. Jamie got a great start in the final but was cut off in the first corner which slowed him up.

On the second lap, Jamie cased the finish-line double and came off the sled. He was able to get back up and going but 1 lap later had to pull off the track due to a mechanical issue.

Jamie’s Semi-Pro Stock on Saturday started off with a 4th place finish in Moto 1. In Moto 2, Jamie got a great start launching himself into 2nd place.

Staying in a strong 2nd, Jamie got sideways in the rhythm section and came off the sled. He was able to get back up and finish 7th. Qualifying 11th for the final, starting back-row, Jamie lined up to the inside.

Unfortunately, on the start, the riders in front of Jamie didn’t get a good start and bunched up in front of him and he came out of the first corner almost last. He was able to make a few passes but couldn’t find the lines to pass the 10th place rider and finished 11th.

Frustrated after Saturday’s final, Jamie came into the Open class wanting a strong finish. In moto 1, he was running close with the leaders but made a mistake in the rhythm section which allowed 1st and 2nd to pull away and finished 3rd.

In Moto 2, He got a great start and made the pass for 2nd on the first lap and held on for the finish. With a 2nd and 3rd in the Motos, Jamie Qualified 4th for the final and grabbed an outside starting position. He got a bad start in the final but was able to stay far outside and make many passes to get up to 3rd by the second corner.

A mechanical failure by another rider gave Jamie 2nd where he ran for a couple laps before being passed by fellow Polaris rider # 381 Brady Dennis. Jamie didn’t let Dennis get out of his sights but held on for the Podium finish in 3rd.

“It was a great way to end off the weekend finishing on the podium. I struggled in the Stock final but I was able to find a good rhythm in the Open final and it paid off.” Jamie said after the weekend’s final race.

The next stop for Byers Motorsports in Round #4 of the CSRA National Circuit in Valcourt, Quebec, February 18-20 for the Grand Prix de Valcourt.

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Davidson Teams With Travis Hjelle for Record 22nd I-500 Win for Polaris

Polaris Terrain domination extends to the legendary ice oval at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where on Saturday, February 5, Polaris enduro racer Corey Davidson won the Soo I-500 for a record seventh time, more than any other driver in race history. Davidson teamed with co-driver Travis Hjelle for the victory that gave Polaris a record-extending 22nd Soo I-500 win.

It was the third Soo I-500 win for the team of Davidson, a 40-year old from Holt, Minnesota, and Hjelle, who is from Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Davidson was on the XLT Engineering/Stud Boy sled near the end of the race and he took the lead for good with eight laps to go. There was a late caution flag that bunched the field, but Davidson used the Polaris Liberty engine power to pull away in the final laps and win by 4.2 seconds.

Seven of the top nine teams to finish were on Polaris race sleds. Along with the winning duo, other Polaris teams included: Brent Vermeersch (Piche Performance Polaris) in third, Gabe Bunke (Bunke Racing) in fourth, Jeff Klein (Bunke Racing) in fifth, and Doug Kammeraad (Kammi Racing), who earned the pole position for the start of the race with a qualifying lap of over 91 mph, in sixth. Thomas Bell (R&R Racing) finished seventh on a Polaris and Cameran Rittenour (Wuppet Wace Team) finished ninth.

Thirty-five sleds started the race, which is the sport’s premier annual enduro event, and only two completed all 500 laps on the 1-mile ice oval.

Davidson, who is a United States Cross Country Snowmobile Racing Series (USCC) champion and is the current points leader in multiple USCC classes, also won the Soo I-500 in these years: in 2008 as a solo driver, in 2006 and 2003 with Travis Hjelle, and three straight years, 1998-2000, teamed with Steve Olson.

Among the record 22 Soo I-500 wins by Polaris sleds, several were achieved by drivers who achieved multiple wins in their careers. Along with Davidson, they include: John Wicht III, who drove alone to victories in 1988, 1992 and 1993; Troy Pierce and Todd Krikke, who teamed for wins in 1996 and 1997; and Gabe Bunke, who won with co-driver Mike Gentz, Jr., in 2002, and with Josh David and Davidson in 2005.

In the Pro-Am race held two days before the 500-miler, Dustin Fierek teamed with Todd Krikke for the victory aboard a Polaris. The Pro-Am is designed to give new or relatively inexperienced Soo drivers the chance to get accustomed to track and run in lighter traffic that they will encounter in the I-500. The newcomers run 20 laps, then their Pro teammates run 20 laps. Fierek ran well in his 20-lap segment and Krikke dominated in his 20 laps to give the Fierek-Krikke Polaris team the Pro-Am victory.

BRP’s Ski-Doo snowmobiles unleashed its new advanced rMotion suspension on the snowmobile world today. The suspension sets new benchmarks in amount of travel, rising rate motion ratio, ease of adjustment and most importantly comfort and control.

BRP engineers challenged themselves to produce a state of the art suspension offering everything a performance rider would want; great performance in big bumps, a smooth ride in small stutter bumps, a wide window of performance without adjustment and great cornering performance.

Their answer is rMotion, which offers the most rising rate shock motion ratio in snowmobiling and up to 30% more travel than competitive suspensions.

And because BRP engineers always push the envelope, they took it a step farther by making it easy to adjust in standard form or even easier with the optional Quick Adjust System, for spring preload and shock compression changes.

While the new rMotion suspension will be available to order on 2012 MXZ X and X RS packages this spring, it is also being released in a small amount of demonstration snowmobiles for the Eastern and Midwest markets through the rest of the riding season.

Visit your local dealer to see if they will be in your area.

More information on Ski-Doo snowmobiles can be found at www.ski-doo.com.

Polaris snocross racer Ross Martin (Judnick Motorsports) won the Pro Super Stock final at the ISOC Eastern Nationals in Farmington, New York, on February 4, and moved into a tie for the class points lead at the mid-point of the season. Martin capped off his weekend with a second-place finish in the Pro Open race on February 5.

Martin worked his way through traffic early in the Friday night Pro Super Stock final, and once he got the lead, he ran away for a decisive victory. With the win, Martin moved into a tie for the class points lead with Tucker Hibbert, who finished fifth in New York.

“I can’t even explain what this means,” Martin told the ISOCracing.com staff after the win. “The momentum for the team, for me as a racer, it’s going to make the second half of the season even more fun.”

Among other Polaris racers in Pro Super Stock, Bobby LePage (Team LaVallee) finished sixth and is currently ninth in points, while Brett Bender (Hentges Racing) finished 12th in his home state, and Matt Piche (Hulten Speed Sports) was 15th.

Polaris racer TJ Gulla (Hentges Racing), who is seventh in points, was unable to complete his races in New York due to a shoulder injury suffered one week earlier at the Winter X Games.

In Pro Open racing on Saturday, February 5, Martin finished second to remain second in class points, 24 behind the leader and 19 ahead of the third-place driver. Matt Piche (Hulten Speed Sports) finished eighth, Danny Poirier (Hulten Speed Sports) was ninth and Andrew Johnstad (Johnstad Racing) was 10th.

In Semi-Pro Super Stock, Polaris racer Mike Bauer (Judnick Motorsports) finished third and is currently third in points. Michaela Lemieux (Hulten Speed Sports) shared the victory in Adaptive Snocross.

In East Coast Snocross (ECS) racing held in conjunction with the ISOC National event, Danny Poirier (Hulten Speed Sports) finished second in Pro Super Stock.

In ISOC National Tour classes not run at the Eastern Nationals, Polaris racer Justin Tate is first in points in Pro-Am Plus 30 Super Stock, Jennifer Pare (JFP Racing) is second in Pro-Am Women Super Stock points, and in the Sport Super Stock standings, Polaris racers Trevor Leighton (Leighton Motorsports) and James Johnstad (Johnstad Racing) are 1-2, respectively.

The next stop for the ISOC National Series is the February 12 Motown National, which will be held at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

About Polaris – With annual 2010 sales of $1.99 billion, Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets off-road vehicles (ORVs), including all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and the Polaris RANGER, snowmobiles and Victory motorcycles for recreational and utility use and has recently introduced a new on-road electric powered neighborhood vehicle.