Clean Sweeps for Top Pros, Youth Racers Highlight CORR Round 4 at Firebird

The 2025 portion of Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR)’s 2025-26 season is officially in the books after Sunday’s action at Firebird Motorsports Park, and Round 4 of the campaign produced some of the most exciting racing of the season so far. When all was said and done, Koen Crawford (Pro SXS) and John Holtger (Pro Lite) headlined a long list of winners who managed to sweep the weekend—10 in all.

Crawford’s sweep is just the latest in a long list of wild moments that have made Pro SXS anyone’s championship to win. Not only did the sprint car convert come out to Firebird as a one-off and win both races, but the field also saw issues for Saturday podium finishers and title contenders Beau Judge (flat tire) and Jason Weller (rollover). As a result, Kyle Arkenau and Bryan McCormick earned their first podium finishes of the season.

“This is definitely a surprise,” said Crawford. “I came out here just to have some fun and hopefully run mid-pack with these guys, but ended up not too bad, so I’ll take it!”

Holtger now boasts a comfortable lead in Pro Lite thanks Michael Funk’s fill-in efforts in October. Funk finished first and second in that event, and he’s been rewarded for his efforts with a second truck as teammate to Holtger; this weekend, he finished second on both days.

Pro NA didn’t produce a repeat winner on the weekend, but it did see its first two-time winner on the season after Ryder Chapman held off Ryder VanBeekum in a thrilling battle in the closing laps. The close friends and R-N-R Steel Racing teammates kept it clean to the finish, crossing the line just .173 seconds apart. As a result, VanBeekum now leads Chapman by a single point, 157-156, in the standings.

“That was a fun race,” Chapman said. “Towards the end, I really had to lock in, because he was right there the whole time. It was really fun being able to race hard and clean the whole time. I loved being door to door, and the adrenaline of it was just amazing.”

In a remarkable feat for CORR’s top youth racers, all seven of Saturday’s winners ran it back on Sunday, starting with Bryce Tomassi (170 Production) and Elliott Brooke (250 Modified) taking their second wins of the season. Tomassi became the first repeat winner in one of CORR’s deepest fields, while Brooke equaled Brody Kline’s back-to-back wins from Firebird in October.

From there, Stetson Wyman (170 Limited) and Addie Atteberry (800 Open) scored their third wins in a row, Kyle Niner (Youth Production) and Ryder Greco (Youth Restricted) kept their perfect seasons alive, and Saturday’s entire Youth SXS podium of Mikey Childress, Kash Hart, and Kody Krantz reprised their finishing positions before the intermission.

Niner and Greco are the last remaining drivers with a perfect season after Mia Chapman came home third in Pro Production. In the closing laps, Chapman and Rylen Lane fought with everything they had to get past Jeremy Spears, but last lap contact and damage dropped Chapman to the final podium spot as Spears scored his first win of the season.

Michael Burnstein came out on top in Pro Am Turbo, while Carson Greco (Pro Am) and Paul O’Brien (SR1) returned to the top steps of the podium for the third time apiece this season. In the multi-class Sportsman race, Saturday runners-up Austin Dorn and Matt Dyer did one spot better in their respective divisions to round out the list of winners.

Podium finishers from CORR 2025-26 Round 4 at Firebird Motorsports Park were as follows:

 

For full results, click here.

On-demand replays of this weekend’s free live streams remain available on CORR’s YouTube, Facebook, and Rumble channels. One-hour highlight shows of each race day will air on the RACER Network in the coming weeks.

The 2025-26 CORR season continues with a visit to Glen Helen Raceway on February 13-15. Live streaming will once again be available on RACER+ and CORR social media channels, followed by the RACER Network highlight shows.

All CORR races will feature television coverage on the RACER Network, as well as free live streaming on multiple platforms. Click here for the full CORR schedule.

Click here to download the full rulebook for the upcoming season.

CORR would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support. Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2025–26 CORR season or a specific event? Please contact us at marketing@corracing.com for more information.

Vendors—we want you too! To learn more about opportunities with CORR, reach out at marketing@corracing.com.

For general series information, visit us online at www.corracing.com.

Redemption for Carr, Dramatic Finishes Highlight CORR Sunday Action at Firebird

Double or nothing was the theme of the day at Firebird Motorsports Park on Sunday, as Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) wrapped up its first of five doubleheaders on the 2025-26 campaign. Some racers managed to sweep their classes, and others would end the day wondering what might have been.

Nowhere was the drama more apparent than the headlining Pro SXS and Pro NA classes. In Pro NA, Saturday winner Ryder VanBeekum came within a single corner of sweeping the weekend, leading Saturday’s Pro SXS winner Ryder Chapman in a clean fight to the finish. Instead, a brutally timed equipment failure would knock VanBeekum from first to fifth as he limped towards the line.

Chapman himself wasn’t immune from the curse, either. After a hotly contested battle with Chase Carr for yesterday’s Pro SXS win, Chapman found himself leading Carr once again late in the race. But he rolled in Turn 3, and despite putting the throttle down to try and recover, a broken rear suspension left him with three wheels and unable to continue, allowing Carr to move up a spot from yesterday.

Carr was just one of many racers to do one spot better from their Saturday second places. The phenomenon started early in both 170 classes, with Banks Bawden (Production) and Stetson Wyman (Limited) the first to pull it off. It continued in 800 Open with Addie Atteberry and Youth SXS with Kash Hart, and Carr was the first of three drivers to do it in a row in the adult classes, just before Brandon Kilgore (SR1) and Tobias Chevalier (Pro Lite). Behind Chevalier, Saturday winner Michael Funk and Nick Brandon had one of the closest finishes of the day battling for second, with Funk getting the edge because he landed the final jump first and was able to put the power down a little earlier.

Repeat winners from Saturday included Brody Kline, Kyle Niner, brothers Carson and Ryder Greco in their respective classes, Chace Quick, Matt Dyer, and Mia Chapman and Steve Hoffman in the Pro Production/Pro Am Turbo multi-class race. On Saturday, Hoffman got the jump on Chapman during the restart after the competition caution to win the overall; on Sunday, Chapman held the lead off the restart, and using the second place Pro Production car of Jeremy Spears as a buffer, built a gap to keep the overall lead across the line.

Podium finishers from CORR 2025-26 Round 2 at Firebird Motorsports Park were as follows:

For full results, click here.

On-demand replays of this weekend’s free live streams remain available on CORR’s YouTube, Facebook, and Rumble channels. One-hour highlight shows of each race day will air on the RACER Network in the coming weeks.

The 2025-26 CORR season continues with a return to Firebird on December 12-14. Live streaming will once again be available on RACER+ and CORR social media channels, followed by the RACER Network highlight shows.

All CORR races will feature television coverage on the RACER Network, as well as free live streaming on multiple platforms. Click here for the full CORR schedule.

Click here to download the full rulebook for the upcoming season.

CORR would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support. Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2025–26 CORR season or a specific event? Please contact us at marketing@corracing.com for more information.

Vendors—we want you too! To learn more about opportunities with CORR, reach out at marketing@corracing.com.

For general series information, visit us online at www.corracing.com.

First CORR Qualifying Session of 2025-26 in the Books; Pro SXS’s Beau Judge Fastest Overall

Qualifying for the first event of the 2025-26 Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) season at Firebird Motorsports Park is in the books, with more than 15 unique classes each doing battle at the storied Arizona venue on Friday. When all was said and done, Pro SXS racer Beau Judge had the fastest time of the day, while every class on the entry list had a different top qualifier despite the many fast drivers who will go for glory in multiple classes this weekend.

Pro SXS saw a hotly contested battle for first on the charts, with Judge’s 55.289 besting Ryder Chapman for top honors by just three hundredths of a second. In fact, the entire top five was separated by just over half a second, setting the stage for two incredible days of battles on Saturday and Sunday between 116 different racers—a new series record.

When all was said and done, five classes managed to crack the one-minute mark on their fastest lap times, including all three Pro UTV classes, Pro Am, and Youth Production polesitter Kyle Niner. Top Pro Lite qualifier Nick Brandon came within .026 seconds of joining them as the trucks join CORR for a full season for the first time in 2025-26.

Top qualifiers on Friday included the following:

UTV, Car, and Truck Classes

  • Pro SXS: #956 Beau Judge, 55.289
  • Pro NA: #922 Trent Ouellette, 57.569
  • Pro Am: #155 Carson Greco, 57.958
  • Pro Production: #07 Jeremiah Wagner, 57.966
  • Pro Lite: #63 Nick Brandon, 1:00.026
  • SR1: #11 Paul O’Brien, 1:00.240
  • Pro Am Turbo: #733 Andre Tomei, 1:00.886
  • Sportsman NA/Turbo: #624 Daryl Chastain, 1:05.142
  • BeeHive 1450: #1487 Terry Earp, 1:11.568

Youth Classes

  • Youth Production: #999 Kyle Niner, 59.728
  • Youth Restricted: #151 Ryder Greco, 1:02.773
  • Youth SXS: #84 Mikey Childress, 1:02.939
  • 800 Open: #66 Addie Atteberry, 1:13.967
  • 170 Limited: #747 Zeppelin Ledbetter, 1:17.408
  • 250 Modified: #18 Brody Kline, 1:18.868
  • 170 Production: #208 Greyson Gentry, 1:20.054

For full practice and qualifying results, click here.

Racing kicks off on both Saturday and Sunday at 7:45AM with Youth divisions, while UTV, Car, and Truck classes will race each day at 11:45AM. Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate, while RACER+, YouTube, Facebook, and Rumble will carry free live streaming coverage of both race days.

All CORR races will feature television coverage on the RACER Network, as well as free live streaming on multiple platforms. Click here for the full CORR schedule.

Click here to download the full rulebook for the upcoming season.

CORR would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support. Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2025–26 CORR season or a specific event? Please contact us at marketing@corracing.com for more information.

Vendors—we want you too! To learn more about opportunities with CORR, reach out at marketing@corracing.com.

For general series information, visit us online at www.corracing.com.