After scoring his first win of the 2025-26 Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) season at Firebird Motorsports Park last month, Conner Maxwell joins Pro SXS points leader Beau Judge as just the second driver to have both won a race and qualified pole in the premier class this season. Maxwell’s 53.874 lap at Firebird in Friday’s Round 9 qualifying gave him the pole by .327 seconds over Kyle Arkenau, whose 54.201 was just one one-thousandth of a second off the lap that gave him the pole for Round 7 last month.
Robert VanBeekum kicked qualifying off in Pro NA with his second straight pole, taking the top spot by .143 seconds over Ryder Chapman in what turned out to be the smallest gap of the day. VanBeekum’s son and points leader Ryder will start third on Saturday as he looks to lock up the title and $5,000 champion’s award from series sponsor R-n-R Steel.
Besides VanBeekum, only a handful of other racers were able to back up their top qualifying times from last month. They included Johnny Holtger in Pro Lite, Carson Greco in Pro Am, Murphy McKay in 250 Modified, and Greyson Gentry in 170 Production—who will start his pursuit of both 170 class titles from the pole on both grids on Saturday.
Holtger and Gentry were just two of the incoming points leaders to take the top spot on the time charts today, alongside names like Paul O’Brien (SR1), Carson Greco (Pro Am), Michael Burnstein (Pro Am Turbo), and Mikey Childress (Youth SXS). Judge, on the other hand, will begin his pursuit of the $5,000 champion’s award from R-n-R Steel from ninth place, although he enters with a 51-point lead that should soften the blow.
Provisional top qualifiers on Friday included the following:
UTV, Car, and Truck Classes
- Pro SXS: #191 Conner Maxwell, 53.874
- SR1: #11 Paul O’Brien, 56.430
- Pro Lite: #44 Johnny Holtger, 56.991
- Pro Am: #155 Carson Greco, 57.022
- Pro NA: #64 Robert VanBeekum, 57.746
- Pro Production: #88 Todd Wittman, 58.284
- Pro Am Turbo: #295 Michael Burnstein, 59.046
- Sportsman: #223 Liam Cadwell, 1:00.400
Youth Classes
- Youth Production: #117 Alex Ranuio, 57.103
- Youth SXS: #84 Mikey Childress, 1:00.854
- Youth Restricted: #151 Ryder Greco, 1:01.140
- 800 Open: #747 Zeppelin Ledbetter, 1:07.349
- 250 Modified: #98 Murphy McKay, 1:12.965
- 170 Limited: #208 Greyson Gentry, 1:13.700
- 170 Production: #208 Greyson Gentry, 1:17.046
For full practice and qualifying results, click here.
Racing kicks off on both Saturday and Sunday at 9AM with Youth divisions, while UTV, Car, and Truck classes will race each day at 1PM. 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.
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