Can-Am Wins Heartland Challenge 10-Hour ATV Race

A three-man team consisting of Cliff Beasley, Richard Cecco and Michael Swift won the Pro Utility class by more than 15 minutes at the GBC Heartland Challenge endurance race near Carlisle, Iowa. The team piloted its PIAA Powersport Can-Am Outlander 800R ATV to the class championship and ninth overall in the gruelling 10-hour race that proved only the toughest utility ATVs would survive the course.

The racers each split a grand prize of $7,500 for the race win, making it the most lucrative utility-class purse in ATV racing to date. Beasley, Cecco and Swift are all teammates from the Team Warnert Racing / Can-Am GNCC race team. Both Swift and Beasley won the GNCC 4x4 Limited and 4x4 Lites class respectively. Cecco was third in the U2 class with five class podiums.