2017 Can-Am Racing
Contingency Program
Can-Am Contingency Includes
More Than a $350,000 in Total Payouts
Valcourt, Quebec (3/24/2017) - Can-Am
off-road has launched its 2017 Can-Am factory
racing team and also announced its Can-Am X-Team
ATV and SxS Rider Contingency Program. The amateur
and professional racing contingency program includes
more than a $350,000 in total payouts and covers
numerous racing series for ATVs and side-by-side
vehicles across North America.
The Can-Am X-Team off-road consists of 18 teams
competing with Can-Am Renegade 4x4 ATVs and Can-Am
Maverick side-by-side vehicles.
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Reigning GNCC 4x4 Pro Champion
Kevin Cunningham is looking to repeat and
has already won the first two events in
2017 aboard his Can-Am Renegade 4x4 |
Side-By-Side Vehicle Racing
The Can-Am side-by-side vehicle racing team competes
on racetracks across North America, in several
different series. The team returns as the reigning
champion in the GNCC XC1Pro UTV, SCORE International
Pro UTV FI and UTV Rally Raid Pro Unlimited classes.
Team racers will also compete in other series,
including the Best In The Desert (BITD) series,
The Off-Road Championship (TORC) and the King
of the Hammers (KOH) race.
Can-Am will field several desert racing teams
inside the Can-Am Maverick X3 Turbo R side-by-side
vehicle. The impressive list includes Derek and
Jason Murray (Can-Am/ ITP / Murray Brothers),
who are known as the most consistent desert racing
team in the series, having now finished 47 consecutive
BITD races. The Murrays, who won the 2016 SCORE
International Pro UTV FI title, will continue
their double-championship pursuit in both desert
racing series. Logan Gastel also competes in a
Maverick X3 side-by-side vehicle for Can-Am in
the BITD series, where he’s coming off of a fifth-place
class finish in the Mint 400.
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Defending SCORE Pro UTV Forced
Induction Class Champions Derek and Jason
Murray return with their new Maverick X3
Turbo R SXS and will compete in both the
BITD series and SCORE International racing
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New for 2017, is the addition of Monster Energy
/ Can-Am drivers Matt Burroughs and Marc Burnett,
the latter of whom is making his return to Can-Am
behind the wheel of the wild Maverick X3 side-by-side
vehicle. The passionate and jovial driver Dustin
Jones (Can-Am / S3 Racing) also returns with his
#noliftshift approach and popular “Visions of
Victory” post-event racing video series. The cool,
calm and collected Can-Am / Desert Toyz front
man Cory Sappington will continue his Can-Am/
Maverick desert racing efforts in both BITD and
SCORE International competition. Aftermarket juggernaut,
innovator and dedicated racer Dan Fisher is also
on Team Can-Am, competing in his Lonestar Racing-backed
Maverick X3 MAX vehicle.
Can-Am will look to continue its success and
onslaught in the Grand National Cross Country
(GNCC) UTV racing series, having won the last
three XC1 Pro UTV championships. Returning for
factory Can-Am is two-time XC1 Pro champ Kyle
Chaney (Chaney Racing / Can-Am), who took the
runner-up spot a year ago with three total victories
and took a third-place finish at the 2017 GNCC
UTV opener. Tim Farr (JB Racing / Can-Am), who
has garnered 11 podium finishes in the last three
seasons, will join Chaney in both GNCC action
and the TORC series. Also, Texan Hunter Miller
(Can-Am / Miller Brothers Racing), who found his
grove late last year earning his first Can-Am
GNCC victory and XC1 Pro class podium, returns
this season in the professional ranks.
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Two-time
GNCC XC1 Pro UTV champion and Can-Am Maverick
SXS pilot Kyle Chaney, who already notched
a podium finish at the opening GNCC UTV
race, returns after finishing in the runner-up
position last year |
Can-Am also fielded an all-new group of racers
to compete in the King of the Hammers (KOH) in
the Ultra4 Racing, of which it is the official
UTV of the series. Casey and Cody Currie (Monster
Energy / Can-Am) and Chad Hughes competed at KOH
in Maverick X3 Turbo R side-by-side vehicles.
Can-Am SXS racers
• Marc Burnett (BITD, SCORE)
• Matt Burroughs (BITD)
• Kyle Chaney (GNCC, TORC)
• Logan Gastel (BITD)
• Tim Farr (GNCC, TORC)
• Dan Fisher (BITD)
• Hunter Miller (GNCC)
• Murray Bros (BITD, SCORE)
• Dustin Jones (BITD)
• Cory Sappington (BITD)
• Chad Hughes (KOH)
• Casey Currie (KOH)
• Cody Currie (KOH)
ATV RACING
Can-Am is the winningest 4x4 ATV brand in Grand
National Cross Country (GNCC) history and the
defending 4x4 Pro class champion Kevin Cunningham
also races a Can-Am Renegade 4x4. Along with GNCC
racing, Can-Am off-road factory racers Bryan Buckhannon
and Don Higbee will also compete in the BITD ATV
series.
Last season, Kevin Cunningham piloted his Can-Am
Renegade X xc 1000R to his first GNCC championship.
He’s already off to a great start in 2017, having
won the first two 4x4 Pro class events. During
his championship effort, Cunningham also ended
Bryan Buckhannon’s impressive championship winning
streak. From 2008 to 2015, Buckhannon had won
eight titles, which included the first two 4x4
Pro class titles. In fact, he has finished no
worse than runner up in any 4x4 class aboard a
Can-Am since 2007, making him the most successful
Can-Am 4x4 racer of all time.
Rob Smith and Jordan Phillips, who have each
notched numerous podiums and also overall victories
in their career, will also join Cunningham and
Buckhannon in the 4x4 Pro ranks this season.
Can-Am ATV racers
• Kevin Cunningham (GNCC 4x4 Pro)
• Bryan Buckhannon (GNCC 4x4 pro, BITD)
• Rob Smith (GNCC 4x4 Pro)
• Don Higbee (BITD ATV)
• Jordan Phillips (GNCC 4x4 Pro)
2017 Can-Am ATV and Side-By-Side Vehicle
Contingency Program
BRP’s Can-Am Off-Road division will once again
support Can-Am ATV and side-by-side vehicle owners
by offering its industry-leading Can-Am Racing
Contingency and Amateur Support Program for 2017.
Racers who compete on approved vehicles in an
appropriate series in North America can be eligible
for cash payouts throughout the 2017 racing season.
Contingency cash is paid out in numerous U.S.
national and regional racing series for both ATV
and side-by-side racing. Those series include
the Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) series,
Best In The Desert (BITD), SCORE International
desert series, King of the Hammers (KOH), World
Off-Road Championship Series (WORCS) Championship
Mud Racing (CMR), Mud Nationals, and many more
regional series across North America. For the
2017 season, select events now have more contingency
money reserved per race provided the minimum amounts
of entries compete at each event (see details).
And a qualified racer can potentially earn additional
championship contingency money if he or she wins
the class title in an authorized series in an
eligible Can-Am vehicle.
Eligible Can-Am racers can earn $5,000 USD for
a first-place finish in the BITD and SCORE International
UTV Pro Production Turbo class of each series
at each event and an additional $7,500 USD for
securing the championship in the same class. ATV
races can secure up to $1,500 USD per racing victory
in the GNCC series (4x4 Pro only) and the BITD
and SCORE International series (Quad Pro). A championship
in any of these premier racing series will earn
the Can-Am champion another $3,000 USD.
To qualify for the Can-Am Amateur Racer Support
program, participants must purchase a qualifying
new or unused ATV or side-by-side vehicle and
also register it with an authorized Can-Am dealer.
The list of ATVs includes 2014 and newer Renegade
and Outlander 4x4 models at varying displacement
levels. Approved side-by-side vehicles include
2014 and newer Can-Am Maverick and all 2017 Maverick
X3 Turbo R side-by-side vehicles.
For more information on Can-Am racing, the full
2017 schedule, the contingency program, please
email: atvracing.can-am@brp.com.
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