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TOO TOUGH TO QUIT Nearly Unstoppable In 2025, Polaris Factory Racer Brock Heger Had To Fight For The Score Pro Utv Open Class Championship By Larry Saavedra Photos by Get Some Photo After winning the first three races in the 2025 SCORE World Desert Championship series, things were looking bright for Polaris factory racer and SCI Motorsports team racer Brock Heger, at the BFGoodrich Tires 58th SCORE Baja 1000. Then things went sideways early in the race. In his own words, Heger in the No. 1896 RZR Pro R made a silly mistake, and it cost him the race win in the SCORE Pro UTV Open Class, putting a potential class championship in jeopardy. “I was already down in time after some mechanical issues,” he said. “I managed to get back on course and began passing cars again that I had already passed.” It was at that time that Heger found himself in trouble again. “I was trying to get the car back in the fight,” he said. “Around mile 270, I was trying to shrink the time down. But I misjudged a corner while making a pass on a truck and put the RZR on its roof.” It took Heger’s team more than an hour to get back on course, this time with Justin Morgan in the driver’s seat. “He did an incredible job,” said Heger. But with any chance for a win at the biggest race of the season off the table, Morgan’s plan was to finish as high a position as he could in the standings, to secure enough points to take the class championship. A fifth-place finish earned the team enough points to win the SCORE Pro UTV Open championship. Had Heger and Morgan DNF’d, following the incident, fellow Polaris factory teammate Max Eddy Jr. had the points to unseat him as the year-end class champion. This was Heger’s third consecutive class championship racing for Polaris and the SCI Motorsports team, earning a total of 506 points for the season, 34 points more than his nearest rival in class. “I had the championship in mind,” Heger said. “But the race was still young, and I really wanted to get the car back in the fight. I’m very proud of winning the class championship. It was definitely not what we were chasing, but you can’t win them all.” “It’s off-road racing, and there are times you get away with things and times you won’t,” he said. “But our team gave it a lot of effort, given all the situations we came up against. But Cayden MacCachren ended up with the win, and he’s part of the Polaris factory team, and so that means a lot.” Heger likes the idea of winning the class championship. “It means I did a lot of good racing the entire year,” he said. “I’m very proud of the title and very proud of my mechanic, Hunter, and all the guys in the SCI shop. Winning a class championship means that they gave me a RZR that can compete at the highest levels all year long. To me, it shows that everyone at Polaris and everyone involved made the effort. I had the better racecar for the entire year, not just in a single race.” Heger has raced long enough to be content with not winning every race, but while the SCORE Baja 1000 race defeat stings, he knows there’s a lot more racing ahead in his young career SJ