SCORE Journal - The Official Publication of SCORE Off-Road Racing
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SCORE JOURNAL 88 38TH SCORE SAN FELIPE 250 UTV CLASSES SCORE Pro UTV Open SCI Motorsports Polaris Factory racer Heger, clocked in at 4:37:47.435 on corrected time. Fellow factory racer, Max Eddy Jr., in the No. 1841 RZR took third. Polaris-supported racers Branden Sims, Wayne Matlock, and Ethan Groom zipped up second, fourth, and fifth. Apparently, it was a good day to be on a Polaris. "It was brutal," Sims said. "I don't care what anyone says, this is the toughest race I do all year, and I do a lot of races. The other thing is that the pace was so fast. I didn't take a drink of water until I got to the finish line. The course was brutal as always. It was a great course, but hard on equipment and bodies. And all the whoops. I lost a rear axle and nursed it to the finish. We came in second, but we started almost last in our class." Polaris teammate Max Eddy chimed in too. "It was a brutal course," he said. "It deteriorated badly. You had to sprint the whole time, and it was hard to do that when the course was so rough. But we are here. We had a couple of small issues that set us back a little bit. Some driver error. All-in-all, a great day. Our Polaris RZR R ran great, our pit stops, our BFGoodrich tires, we had no issues. The pace at which the side-by-sides were running was so fast. You couldn't have one issue." SCORE Pro UTV Forced Induction Phil Blurton in the No. 2944 Can-Am Maverick R took first in class in a corrected time of 4:53:35.882. Speaking to SCORE Journal after the race, Blurton revealed that wind wreaked havoc on the course lines, downgrading visibility considerably. Kayden Wells in the No. 2935 Can-Am Maverick R took second place in a time of 4:58:53.378. After coming off a super successful 2024 SCORE season and clinching the UTV Class Championship for Can-Am, Wells was in a position to repeat his top spot on the podium. But it wasn't meant to be at the SCORE San Felipe 250.