Jim Kirts and Mike Babcock were again the favorites going to the green flag for the Michigan Cat 500. Jim took the green and immediately pulled away from the field. The sled was running and handling the best it had all year. Jim Kirts and Mike Babcock led for at least half of the race. As the 500 lap race began to wind down, it looked as if the Bad Frog's were going to pull off the win. With Mike Babcock in a comfortable lead at 50 laps to go, the sled began to develope a miss. Mike gave it all he had trying to keep the Bad Frog's out in front, but it just wasn't meant to be. With 8 laps to go, the sled died going down the back stretch and had to be towed in. The ignition had failed again, but Mike still had a good enough lead to bring the team home a 3rd place finish. Great day for the entire Bad Frog Team and all of their sponsors. Without the help and support of all of our sponsors, we couldn't keep the Bad Frogs and Tadpoles going. Thank you to all of you!

It seems that the Bad Frog crew were able to find all of the bugs in their Polaris race sled as they were able to capture the pole position for Sundays Lincoln Michigan Cat 500 Enduro race. Jim and Mike qualified almost a full second faster than the 2nd place qualifier.

Again, the Bad Frog Team of Mike Babcock and Jim Kirts put together a good qualifying effort to start 4th for the Kinross Blizzard 300. Jim started the race and made his way to the front. Running 2nd at the 90 lap mark, the Bad Frog sled began to slow down forcing Jim to the pits. The Bad Frog crew of Bill Cryderman, Mike Williams, Tim Lockwood, Andy Kirts, Jake Gerow, Derek Gerow, and a host of others went to work trying to find the problem in the sled. They were able to finally get it running well enough to get Mike Babcock back out on the track under caution. Although they were noe down some 100 laps, Mike rode out the caution a prepared for the restart. When the green flag flew, Mike just couldn't get the sled to go. He finally pulled in to the pits and ended the day for the Bad Frog Team. The team ended up 12th overall.

Jim Kirts and Mike Babcock looked to be the favorites for the Drummond Island 300 enduro race on Sunday. When the green flag flew, Jim Kirts steadily pulled away from the field. After 51 laps, Jim had lapped all but 2nd and 3rd place on the track. However, disaster struck. The ignition system failed and sent Jim and Mike to the side lines for the rest of the day.

Jim Kirts and Mike Babcock piloted their Bad Frog Racing Polaris to the pole starting position for the Drummond Island 300. Jim suffered a bad crash in Friday testing, but the team was able to put the sled back together and capture the pole for Sunday's main event.