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Polaris RZR Factory Racing Sweeps Podium at 2025 Baja 1000

Cayden MacCachren wins again; Brock Heger 5th, wins 3rd SCORE championship.

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Polaris claims its third straight Baja 1000, and its third straight podium sweep this year, and a third straight SCORE championship.Polaris

Polaris stamped its authority all over the 58th running of the Baja 1000 and this year’s multi-race SCORE championship. The Polaris RZR Factory Racing Team put four drivers on the start line in first, second, third, and fifth positions. Factory driver Cayden MacCachren, co-driver Ethan Groom, and navigator Hailey Hein got to the finish before anyone else in the class, earning MacCachren his second Baja 1000 win after his victory in 2023. His triumph also delivered Polaris its third consecutive Baja 1000 win.

All the race runners in every class faced a brutal time on the Baja Peninsula. The original race was mapped out to 854 miles, but a brace of storms tore up the route and forced organizers to shorten the length to 835.52 miles. Only 92 of 168 classified finishers reached the end. MacCachren’s finishing time of 18:24:05.405 means he averaged more than 45 mph in his RZR Pro R Factory rig.

Race leader Cayden MacCachren finished with an official time of 18:24:05:405 with an average speed of over 45 mph.Polaris

RZR Factory Racing driver Max Eddy Jr and co-driver Dylan Schmoke crossed the line after MacCachren and had been classified in second in the initial results, but a time penalty for a missed virtual checkpoint demoted him to third behind Polaris-supported driver Brandon Sims in a race-prepped RZR Pro R. The MacCachren-Sims-Eddy Jr. podium was Polaris’ third consecutive podium sweep in this year’s SCORE series.

The Polaris team’s most famous member, Brock Heger, took the slow-and-steady approach to the race. He finished fifth, more than 90 minutes behind MacCachren. That was enough to get Heger his third consecutive SCORE series championship in the Pro UTV Open class. Emphasizing Polaris’ dominance in the desert, Max Eddy Jr. took second in the 2025 SCORE Pro UTV Open championship standings and Cayden MacCachren took third—meaning, another podium sweep. And emphasizing Polaris’ dominance in the class, all but one of the 16 runners in the Pro UTV Open category were driving Polaris rigs.

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