Racing on TV Start Friday Night; Snocross Finals Are Saturday Night

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Polaris snocross racers – and snowmobile freestyle athletes – have been cleared for landing atop the podium at the Winter X Games, which will be contested – and broadcast – Friday through Sunday, January 26-28.

Eleven Polaris snocross racers are competing for slots in the X games final on the slopes of Aspen, Colorado, where they hope to win the coveted gold medal.

The X Games are a non-points event, but they create the season’s most high-profile event with live broadcasts on ESPN and ABC.

“The X Games are something that everybody wants to win for the bragging rights and the exposure,” said Polaris Racing Manager Tom Rager, Sr. “Polaris race fans should be excited because we have an outstanding lineup of racers in the event, and their seasons are off to a great start on the Polaris IQ race sled.”

Along with the 11 Polaris racers in the snocross competition, three Polaris riders have qualified for the Snowmobile Freestyle event, which makes its Winter X Games debut this winter.

“While the snocross is intense and super-competitive, the snowmobile freestyle is really fun,” said Rager. “Polaris is extremely well-represented by some high fliers who have an excellent chance of winning the first Winter X Games gold medal in this event.”

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Take a look for yourself.

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Polaris snocross racer TJ Gulla (Hentges Racing) won Pro Open and finished second in Pro Stock on his IQ® race sleds during a busy weekend of racing at the Polaris BIR Championship January 12-14 in Brainerd, Minnesota. It was a doubleheader weekend for Pro racers, as they ran finals on Saturday and Sunday, and Polaris racers used the opportunity to earn valuable points and tune up for the upcoming Winter X Games.

Other Polaris racers who won during the weekend were Brett Bender (Hentges Racing), who won Semi-Pro Open, and Derek Ellis (Rocky Mountain Motorsports), who won every heat and took the Sport Open title.

“We had some guys who ran well and we were happy to earn some points to put several of our racers right in the middle of the points races,” said Polaris Racing Manager Tom Rager, Sr. “We hope to use the busy weekend as a springboard toward strong finishes at the X Games.”

Following the Brainerd race, Polaris racers had four of the top 10 positions in Pro Open and Pro Stock points. In Pro Open points, the Polaris positions include: 2. Ross Martin; 3. Levi LaVallee; 4. TJ Gulla; 6. Shaun Crapo; and 12. Mike Schultz.

The Winter X Games will be held January 25-28. The snowmobile freestyle elimination round will be held Thursday, January 25, with each competitor performing two 75-second routines on the course dotted with jumps of various sizes and heights.

Competitors with the top four scores will advance to the semi-finals on Sunday, January 28. The four will be split into two head-to-head duels, with the winner of each advancing to the final, where the gold and silver medalists will be determined.

The competition will be broadcast on an ESPN network with highlights possibly shown during ABC sports programming. Check local listings for times and channels.

There will also be nearly a dozen Polaris snocross racers competing for X Games gold in Aspen, including last year’s silver medalist Levi LaVallee. Snocross preliminaries will be run on Friday, January 26, and the finals will take place Saturday, January 27.

Aleksander Nordgaard has discovered one sure way to minimize track wear on his Polaris snowmobile: Spend more time in the air than on the ground.

Nordgaard is one of the world’s leading snowmobile freestyle riders and he is one of three Polaris riders who are favorites to win medals in the first-ever Snowmobile Freestyle Competition at ESPN’s Winter X Games in late January near Aspen, Colorado.

“Aleksander was doing back flips like there was nothing to it. It was unbelievable,” said Joe Duncan, longtime snowmobile racing promoter who is managing the X Games freestyle competition for ESPN.

Joining Nordgaard at the X Games will be Polaris freestyle pilots Sam Carver and Ryan Britt. Carver finished second at the X Games qualifying event, less than a point behind Nordgaard, while Britt finished fourth. The first alternate for the X Games freestyle contest is Polaris rider Daniel Bodine of Sweden. In the qualifying competition at Park X, 19 competitors battled for five available spots in the X Games.

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Thief River Falls, MN – Well that sure didn’t take long. Tucker Hibbert needed exactly one event before returning to top form after a four-year hiatus from the National snocross series.

Brainerd International Raceway (BIR) hosted four World PowerSports Association National Pro-class finals January 12-14 in Brainerd, MN, and Hibbert dominated the two Pro Stock features.

But Hibbert was hardly the only Arctic Cat ace; Team Green riders combined to win six of the weekend’s 13 liquid classes and took 19 of 39 podium spots, easily the most of any manufacturer.

Hibbert and his stock Arctic Cat were wicked fast at BIR. Saturday’s Round 1 and Sunday’s Round 2 Pro Stock finals were near carbon-copies: Hibbert claimed the early lead in each before blazing away to commanding wins.

On Sunday, Hibbert had plenty of Cat company on the podium. Star Performance/Arctic Cat’s Garth Kaufman was second – his third top-three in six finals this season – and Ryan Simons completed the Arctic Cat sweep.

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