Chaparral Motorsports 2018 ATV / UTV Sand Tire Hill Climb Challenge At Glamis Results

A couple weeks ago we posted an intro article about the Sand Tire Challenge we undertook out at Glamis. If you missed that article you can read it in full here, otherwise here's a quick synopsis:

We wanted to know exactly which UTV sand tires performed the best for the activities sand enthusiasts most commonly use their side-by-sides for, hill climbing and drag racing their buddies across the flats. So we loaded up a pair of Can-Am Maverick X3 xrs, mounted six pairs of our more popular paddle tires on wheels, and headed out to the Glamis Sand Dunes. For good measure and to show how a sand/paddle tire compares to an offroad tire in the dunes we also brought along a four Tensor Regulators and four Maxxis Big Horn 2.0 tires.

Tensor Regulator

Maxxis Big Horn 2.0

AMS Sand King

STI Sand Drifter

System 3 DS340

Quadboss QBT34

EFX SandSlinger

GMZ Sand Stripper XL

For the hill climb we marked off a 300-foot course up Competition Hill. Competition Hill isn't biggest or steepest dune out in Glamis, but it is highly popular and a reference point that most people that have been to Glamis will recognize. To try and keep everything on a fair playing field we set all the tires to the same air pressure of 7.5 PSI and all the runs were done in 2-wheel drive, High. We ran the course three times with the cars switching lanes each time. To start off we had one Maverick with Tensor Regulators at all four corners and the other with the Maxxis Big Horns and then raced the cars against each other. When it came to testing the sand tires we outfitted the front of the cars with GMS Sand Stripper XL-TT tires, and then swapped out the rear tires after each round of testing.

Here are the results for the hill climb test:

Overall Results

1^st System 3 DS340

2^nd EFX Sand Slinger

3^rd STI Sand Drifter

4^th AMS Sand King

5^th Quadboss QBT346

6^th GMZ Sand Stripper XL

7^th Maxxis Big Horn 2.0

8^th Tensor RegulatorIndividual Run Break Down

Versus Results