Zach Herfindahl wrapped up his successful rookie Pro cross-country racing season with two more podium finishes at the USXC Warroad 100. A rough race course along the shores of Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota challenged all riders, but Herfindahl fought to a second-place finish in the 100-mile Pro 600 race and a third place spot in the 40-mile Pro Open event.

“I had a good weekend,” says Herfindahl. “I wasn’t far behind the winner in both races so I feel good about the two podium finishes.”

While the cross-country team was busy in Warroad, Logan Christian, Evan Christian and Tyler Adams were hard at work chasing podium spots at the ISOC RAM Trucks Snocross going on at Buffalo River Race Park in Fargo, ND. During Friday’s racing Logan went 3-3 on his DRIFT Racing/Troy Lee Designs Arctic Cat and finished sixth in the final. On Saturday he went 3-1 and in the final was in second place after the first turn when he was run into by another rider resulting in his running board getting pushed into the tunnel, the pipes getting dislodged and a broken chain case.

“Getting run into was a big bummer,” says Christian. “I was having one of the best race days of the season. I had a great start, we were dialed in for the track and I felt like I could have won that race.”

The Christian Brothers Racing team covered some series ground in the last week, competing at the New York stop of the ISOC AMSOIL Championship Snocross schedule and the grueling 2000-mile Iron Dog in Alaska.

ISOC Seneca Allegany Snocross

With Garth Kaufman out with a back injury, Logan Christian was left to carry the flag for Christian Brothers Racing in New York. He just missed transferring to the final during Friday night’s racing, landing in the LCQ where he finished second. Starting from the back row he fought to an eighth place finish in the rough track built next to Seneca Allegany Casino. He came back Saturday and went 2-3 in heats which sent him straight to the final where he again came in eighth.

“It was a tough weekend,” says Christian. “Starts were critical because the track was really rough and had some different kinds of jumps that made it hard to pass. We just didn’t get the breaks we needed this weekend.”

It was a busy weekend for the Christian Brothers Racing team, with half traveling to the ISOC Canterbury Snocross in Shakopee, Minn. and the other half hitting the USXC cross-country race in Detroit Lakes, Minn.

The USXC event was held on Big Detroit Lake where the USXC crew had laid out a 10-mile ice lemans course featuring a mix of tight and sweeping corners and flat-out straightaways. It made setting up the Arctic Cat snowmobiles challenging but the CBR crew was able to dial in the machines and set fast times in both Pro classes with Brian Dick taking wins in both the 100-mile Pro Stock race and the 40-mile Pro Open race. In all, the team claimed a total of four of six podium spots – Zach Herfindahl finished third in Pro Stock and Ryan Simons, who swept the previous race at Pine Lake, took second in Pro Open.

Christian Brothers Racing competed this past weekend at the Blackjack National in Bessemer, Mich. for rounds 3-4 of the AMSOIL Championship Snocross series.

While Rounds 1-2 at at the Duluth National Snocross took place on a tiny, 22-second track, the highly-technical track at Blackjack boasted two uphill runs, a brutal downhill run and a challenging dogleg which made for lap times in the one-minute range.

Pro Open riders Garth Kaufman and Logan Christian posted top results in Friday’s qualifying and both cruised to a front row spot in the final. After a great start Christian was running in fifth spot but came off in the downhill section and pain in his ribs kept him from getting back on his sled. Kaufman put in a solid run and finished in the eighth spot.

The Christian Brothers snocross racing team did not get off to the strong start it was looking for at the Duluth National Snocross in Duluth, Minn.

Fresh off a Thanksgiving Day of turkey, stuffing and football, fans and racers funneled onto the hill at Spirit Mountain Friday night for the Dominator race, a head-to-head bracket-style elimination event that held a $10,000 check for the winner. CBR riders Logan Christian and Garth Kaufman were eliminated by two riders who ultimately faced each other in the money round.

“The Dominator was a lot of fun,” says Garth Kaufman. “It’s the first race of the season and it helps us get our feet wet and get the sleds dialed in.”