Polaris believes efficiency side-by-side UTV racing is able to step up a degree. So it is launching the “first full-fledged UTV class manufacturing facility racing program,” full with a purpose-built race automobile, a full-time crew and a devoted workshop.
Till now, says Polaris, “manufacturing facility groups” in UTV racing have actually been unbiased groups working with various levels of OEM assist, together with the supply of some inventory race automobiles. However the firm believes it is time to kick off a brand new period of professionalism within the sport, and it is going out onerous after it.
The brand new Polaris Manufacturing unit Racing group will get its personal 10,000-square foot race store in San Diego, and a full-time employees of 12 critical cats. It will get its first three gun drivers in Austin Weiland, Brock Heger and Cayden MacCachren. It will get two Crew Principals, a Basic Supervisor, an Operations Director, a Crew Chief, three junior and three senior mechanics.
Sponsorships are already lined up with Rockford Fosgate, Synchrony, Progressive Insurance coverage and GoPro, with additional assist with livery and attire from Fox Racing, with semi-active dwell valve suspension from Fox Shocks, tires from BF Goodrich, rims from Methodology Race Wheels and different odds and sods from Polaris Engineered Lubricants and Inflexible Lighting.
Polaris Off-Street Racing Technical Director Robert Wilmot has led a manufacturing facility engineering group on the event of a purpose-built racing UTV, but to be totally revealed – though you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of improvement within the video on the finish.
It is a far cry from roping in a regional gross sales supervisor to go win the Baja 1000; the group will exit with each attainable benefit as they compete within the SCORE Worldwide sequence down within the Baja, and the Finest within the Desert Vegas to Reno Race this 12 months. There’ll even be an enormous goal on their backs, given these benefits, and that appears to be precisely what Polaris is inviting.
“Polaris will not be solely accountable for actually inventing the efficiency side-by-side class, it additionally has an extended and storied historical past of successful on the highest ranges of off-road racing,” mentioned Polaris Off Street VP Reid Wilson in a press launch. “So it merely is smart that we would be driving the trade ahead but once more with the primary, full-fledged UTV class manufacturing facility racing program. Racing is integral to every part we do … finally pushing the trade ahead and advancing the buyer side-by-side market. We’re completely chomping on the bit to now showcase Polaris’ engineering prowess and ingenuity by way of our new Polaris Manufacturing unit Racing group.”
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