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2007 IXCR Year End Banquet Recap
The various awards and prizes.
William Yokley speaks during the
banquet.
Overall quad champ Todd Demaree.
A great turnout for the first ever IXCR
rewards banquet. |
The inaugural 2007 Indiana XC Racing
officially came to an end with the year end
banquet this weekend. Around 160 racers and
spouses were on hand to receive various awards
and prizes. 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. 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
Youth Awards
65cc Stock
Bike
1st Ethan Eckstein
2nd Jaden Smith
90cc
Production ATV
1st Matthew Harris
2nd Trenner Wile
3rd Logan Merriman
4th Tristan Garrett
5th Nik Welch
6th Jacob Choate
90cc Stock
ATV
1st Cole Setser
2nd Lee Smith
3rd Tyler Weltich
4th Aaron Tharp
70cc
Production ATV
1st Charlie Welch
50cc
Production ATV
1st Noah Mullins
1st Sadie Welch
50cc Stock
ATV
1st Kaleeb Williams
2nd Kory Mullins
3rd Trevor West
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