Mike Warren Racing   

Newsletter – December 2004

                                    Grass Drag Race Season Summary

 

We’ve just completed another very successful season of Grass Drag racing. We competed in the National Snowmobile Racing Association (NSRA) and several other events during the 2004 summer and fall season.

 

The 2004 grass season began in June when we started working on our new Polaris 2004 Pro XR 440. We’ve never raced a 440 and found out quickly that clutching is everything with the smaller engines. We also raced our 2002 Polaris 600 XCSP and Polaris 500 Improver in several races. We spent a little time with some early season Track Dyno tuning with Reichard’s Performance Center.

 

We started our Grass Drag season early with SAM in Withee, WI. We focused primarily on our Polaris 440 but still raced the 2002 Polaris 600 XCSP at several events. It is still as strong as ever and very competitive - giving us numerous finals appearances. Our fall 2004 season highlights included our 1st place season finish in the NSRA 440 Stock Semipro class, and our 2nd place finish for the season in the Stock Semipro 500 class. It was a close season with lead changes after almost every race. We tried our luck at Haydays again but didn’t make it out of the Saturday heats. We didn’t have the clutching right.

 

This winter we plan to race JR’s ice circuit in southern Wisconsin as well as the usual local Snow Drags at New Berlin, WI. We may also race a few Radar Runs if we have time to switch thing around between the ice drags.

 

One of the team features that continues to be very popular is our team web site. We’ve continued to keep a national schedule for Grass Drag events that has been very popular - in addition to team bio information, race results, sponsor information, pictures and related racing links. We also keep a Midwest Winter race schedule updated.

 

The past season would not have been possible without the help of the pit crew. Thank you to Jason Carstens who pit crewed al of the races this year. In addition we would also like to thank all of our sponsors who helped make this a very successful grass drag season.

 

Polaris Industries                   G&G PowerSports                 ReichardsPerformance Center

Digatron                                 StudBoy                                  Hi Performance Engineering

Team Industries                     Blast Graphics                       CrossXconnect

  

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