POLARIS' RZR XP
TURBO BOASTS
144 HORSEPOWER
FROM THE FACTORY
AND MANY UTV
TEAMS HAVE
ADAPTED THIS
MODEL AS THEIR
MAIN RACE VEHICLE
OF CHOICE.
vehicles can be competitive
against turbo models, but as
future power increases seem
evident, the division between
the two categories will be much
greater. SCORE's race directors
say that by doing this now, it
can help preserve the integrity
of fair play and encourage
more UTV racers to participate
and win a SCORE event.
With this change, racers are
obviously concerned over what
this will do to the competition
within SCORE. "We are
concerned about the split as
the 1900 class was just starting
to get some good traction in
SCORE; increased car counts,
great competition, and good
media coverage," says Murray.
"The rules seemed to be getting
smoothed out where teams
had the confidence to come
race in the SCORE series."
Competing against teams
with manufacturer support
and more powerful engines,
however, poses a threat to
limiting participation by some
teams. "Once I talked to
SCORE's Co-Race Director
Dick Gray, he explained that
there were several teams with
normally aspirated vehicles,
that didn't come to a SCORE
race because they thought
it was not fair to compete in
the same class as the turbo
vehicles," said Lopez. "That
was one of the main reasons
why the class split, to provide
more options to different
racers with different engines."
The Speed Gap
Widens At The
SCORE San Felipe 250
Evidence of the speed and
performance difference
between the two classes was
clearly visible during the first
race of the 2016 SCORE season,
PHOTO
COURTESY
POLARIS
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