Both Polaris-backed teams lined up on the front row once again where Team Driver Scott Kiger powered his Polaris RZR XP 1000 off the start to begin the afternoon in second place. With his mechanic Tyler King in the passenger seat, Kiger battled for the lead early on but a small mistake on the opening lap caused the duo to drop back quite a bit in the overall running.

“The RZR XP 1000 fired up so fast on the start and things were looking good at the beginning,” Kiger said. “We made a mental error on the first lap and missed part of the trail while battling with John Allen [Yokley].”

By the time Kiger got back on track, he was roughly two minutes down from the leaders, but the Pennsylvania native put his head down and began a valiant charge toward the front of the pack.

Kiger put forth an impressive come-from-behind performance to make up 18 positions in the XC1 Modified class. After one hour and three minutes of hard-fought racing, Kiger and his Polaris Coastal Racing team finished only three seconds off a podium position with fourth place overall.

Kiger added, “There’s no doubt we had the fastest car but unfortunately we messed up on the first lap and had to play catch up. It was a really nice weekend, the track was a lot of fun and I can’t say enough about how well the car worked out there.”

Kiger will finish the season with number two in the National Championship standings.

It was a challenging day for Team Driver William Yokley and his passenger Tina Yokley, who finished out the season with a DNF at Ironman. Yokley fired up his Polaris RZR 900 right away off the start but soon ran into an issue that forced him to stop for an adjustment on lap one.

Things didn’t get better from there as the defending National Champion experienced a mishap and hit a tree going into the woods, causing substantial damage to the front end of the car.