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Polaris RZR sweeps every major UTV overall race in undefeated 2025 season

Polaris RZR goes undefeated across Dakar, Baja and U.S. desert races

By Bruce Brown Dec 18, 2025 12:48 PM

Polaris RZR Pro R Factory UTV races to Baja 1000 win. — Polaris

Polaris RZR Factory Racing closed out the 2025 season with a result the UTV category has never seen before. The team went undefeated in overall UTV competition, winning every major race it entered across a full year of global off-road events.

From rally raid and rock racing to long-distance desert endurance events, the clean sweep covered the biggest races on the calendar and stretched across multiple formats, terrains, and continents.

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By the end of the Baja 1000, Polaris RZR had completed a perfect 2025 campaign, earning the UTV overall at every major event it entered during the season.

A season-long sweep across the biggest races

The season opened at the Dakar Rally, where Polaris RZR Factory Racing and Sébastien Loeb Racing claimed a second consecutive overall SSV victory. Rookie driver Brock Heger and navigator Max Eddy Jr. led the field for 10 straight stages and finished more than two hours ahead.

Less than a month later, Heger won at King of the Hammers in Johnson Valley, California, capturing both the Desert Challenge and the UTV Hammers Championship. The result added King of the Hammers to a list of overall wins that already included Dakar and the Baja 1000.

Polaris followed with an overall UTV win at the Mint 400, where the factory team made its event debut and led a sweep of the top 10 UTV Pro Open class positions.

In SCORE competition, Polaris RZR continued to set the pace. At the San Felipe 250, Polaris drivers finished in nine of the top 10 positions. At the Baja 500, the team delivered a 1-2-3 sweep of the overall UTV podium, led by Heger.

After Mitch Guthrie Jr. won the over UTV race at the Vegas to Reno desert race, the season closed at the Baja 1000, where Cayden MacCachren and co-driver Ethan Groom earned Polaris’ third straight overall UTV victory at the event, completing an undefeated SCORE season.

The machine behind the results

All of the wins came aboard the Polaris RZR Pro R Factory platform, which is based on the consumer RZR Pro R and adapted for competition with an FIA-spec chassis, long-travel suspension, and a race-tuned ProStar Fury 2.0-liter engine.

With the 2025 season complete, Polaris RZR Factory Racing now turns its attention to defending its title at the 2026 Dakar Rally.

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