Indiana XC Racing Year End Awards Banquet

National Guard's William Yokley spoke at the IXCR Awards Banquet

National Guard sponsored GNCC pro William Yokley was in attendance to show his support for the series. William also spoke to the crowd about racing, sponsors and his thoughts on the series. William ended by taking a few questions from the crowd with one getting a cheer from the crowd when he confirmed he would be on a non factory supported Honda this year.

After a brief introduction of the IXCR staff the door prizes and awards started to be handed out. Youth riders were up first with two standout racers, Matthew Harris and Derrik Allen taking top honors in their classes along with receiving “rising star” awards. Bike awards were up next with Vet bike class racer Jeff Mote taking the overall #1 plate just head of Bruce Stapleton and Austin Witt.

Before quad awards were handed out a variety of awards were given including the “Hard luck” award given to Jeff Rawlings for his “never give up” attitude even after only finishing a few races of the entire schedule. Racers Choice awards were voted on by racers in attendance and went to Todd Demaree for quads and Derrik Allen for bikes.

Pro ATV Champion Todd Demaree	Awards Banquet

With quads having the most in attendance the awards took a little longer to present. Standouts were Todd Demaree winning the tight Pro class battle along with edging out Nate Beyers for the overall. Bruce Marshall’s consistent finishes put him at top of the Vet class and 3rd overall. Jeff Seelig collected his awards for winning the “C” 16-25 class with an impressive showing by winning all 6 rounds he entered with Chris Bradshaw clawing his way into 2nd place.

In between awards the IXCR staff thanked all the 2007 sponsors including: ATVriders.com, Three One Seven Graphics, Spider Grips, Cd and Son concrete, Yamaha, Fatheadz.com and Badlands. Along with thanking the 2007 sponsors they announced some changes for the 2008 season. The changes include fully AMA/ATVA sanctioned races, Co-sanctioning with GNCC at the Ironman, Co-sanctioning with district-15, along with some of the locations for the 2008 season.

Along with those announcements the staff unveiled the 2008 Team IXCR graphics. Team IXCR is mostly made up from the staff of IXCR and will be running the entire 2008 GNCC season. IXCR staff was also excited about announcing Indiana’s own Dreyer Honda South as being the 2008 presenting sponsor.

Other 2008 sponsors include, Three One Seven Graphics, SlyFoxMx.com, The Badlands, Moto X Perts, Moose racing, Scott goggles, printech solutions, tire balls, risslers extreme atv, Hiper, WAY offroad, Panda powder coating, and Bloomington powersports. The 2007 banquet sponsors included Three One Seven Graphics, Tucker Rocky, Earlywine Racing, SlyFoxMX.com, IMS, EVS, Cycle Outfitters, spider grips, and yokleyracing.com

About Indiana XC Racing
Indiana XC Racing was formed in 2007 to offer Indiana and surrounding state's cross country racers a fun, safe, competitive race environment. With races located across central Indiana, IXCR brings in a variety of racers at all levels. More information regarding IXCR can be found at http://www.ixcr.com

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