17 classes. 17 winners.
If you’re looking for excitement and a lot of different faces on top of the podium, you needn’t have looked any further than Firebird Motorsports Park on Saturday. The Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) season kicked off with a bang, and despite some of short course off-road racing’s most talented drivers pulling double duty (or more), none could stand atop the box twice in the opener.
CORR’s fourth season was already poised to be its biggest yet thanks to an influx of new partners and classes, the addition of new race dates at Glen Helen Raceway and SBC Fairgrounds, a new TV and live streaming package on the RACER Network and RACER+, and top drivers heading west to do battle. The size of the entry list only backed that up, as the opener set a new CORR record with 116 unique drivers.
Firebird, for its part, established why it’s been CORR’s most frequently visited venue over the years with racers of all ages putting on some thrilling racing. A photo finish for third place in 170 Limited saw Cooper Hogenes holding off Brooks Hopkins at the line by just .03 seconds, while Pro Am Turbo winner Steve Hoffman and Pro Production class winner Mia Chapman would put up an incredible fight for first overall in the first multi-class race of the day.
It all built up to the feature Pro SXS race, with polesitter Beau Judge and Ryder Chapman doing heavy battle after they came to the green and Chapman briefly falling from first to fourth despite nearly making a pass for the lead on the outside. Robert VanBeekum would be next to challenge Judge, but he’d take contact from Chase Carr shortly after and fall out of contention.
Chapman would push hard to get back in the running, soaring past Carr to get back to second before the caution flew. On the restart, he’d get to Judge’s inside on Turn 2, make the pass stick on the outside of Turn 3, and pave the way for Carr to take second. On the final lap, Chapman would make a mistake that gave the top spot to Carr for a few hundred feet, but he’d push his way back into first in one of the most exciting races of the day.
While nobody could take two victories on Saturday, two drivers would stand on the podium more than once: Hogenes backed up his 170 Limited podium with another third place in Youth Restricted, and Mikey Childress backed up his Youth SXS victory with second place in Pro Am. In addition, multiple sibling pairs would take home hardware—led by the Chapmans’ two victories—and even a father-daughter duo (Daniel and Chloe Hurn) would take a pair of third place finishes in their respective classes.
Podium finishers from CORR 2025-26 Round 1 at Firebird Motorsports Park were as follows:
For full results, click here.
The action continues at 7:45AM on Sunday morning with another full slate of races for every class. Live streaming will once again be available on RACER+ and CORR social media channels.
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