ICE Speedway Announces 37th Annual Ice Racing Series Schedule

Jared Mees #1 leads the field into turn one for the final round of the night in the ICE Speedway Series at the US Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, IL. on January 21, 2012.  ICE Speedway announced their 37th Annual World Championship Ice Racing schedule today.  Check it out below to get your tickets to the great action ahead in the ICE Speedway Series coming your way for the winter season.

2012 World Championship ICE Racing Series
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/10/12   37th ANNUAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE FIRES UP IN DECEMBER!!!   ICE/International Championship Events recently announced the schedule for the 37th ANNUAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ICE RACING SERIES. This exciting motorsports series has become a tradition in many of America's top sports arenas each winter. This unique and extreme sport features the top ice racers on the planet competing on lightning quick state-of-the-art Manufacturers World Cup Motorcycles and anything goes no holds barred ICE Unlimited Outlaw Quads (highly modified 4-wheel racing ATV's).     The season opener will take place December 14th at the Showare Center in Kent, WA followed the next night by Round 2 at the Comcast Center in Everett, WA where ICE began a motorsports competition on ice tradition the first year this arena opened. After the Holiday break Rounds 3 & 4 will be held at the Maverik Center in Salt Lake City, UT. From there the Series moves on to Illinois for the annual Battle For Bloomington Championship. Round 6 moves to the East Coast at the popular Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA. At the time of this release the Championship Grand Finale is scheduled for and a new market for ICE Racing Evansville, IN. This exciting event will take place at the all beautiful Ford Center. Check on icespeedway.com as more racing dates could be added to this year's schedule.     A great field of World Cup Motorcycle riders is expected to compete for the WC Title this winter headed up by Minnesota's Jake "The Snake" Mataya, PA's "Freight Train" Tom McGrane & "Sideways" Sammy Wiggins & MI's "Captain" Kirk Cheney to name a few. Front and center in the dangerously unpredictable ICE Unlimited Outlaw Quads this winter will be none other than the "Wild Child" herself Mandy Brodil Cervantes from Grandy, NC. In her 14 year ice racing career Mandy has won an incredible 5 World Championship Titles! Come cheer her on as she tries for number 6!!! Trying to dethrone Mandy will be a great group of racers including WI's Chuck Calvert & "Stunt Man" Ken Remer, "Jersey Boy" Anthony Demeo, the Kansas Tornados and many more. We are looking forward to a great season of ICE RACING and hope you will join us!     SEE YOU AT THE ICE RACES!!!   THE GREATEST SPECTACLE ON ICE!TM   37TH ANNUAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ICE RACING SERIES SCHEDULE: (Click Link for Tickets)   Fri-Dec 14th 7:30 PM - Showare Center - Kent, WA Sat-Dec 15th 7:00PM - Comcast Arena - Everett, WA Fri-Jan 4th 7:00PM - Maverik Center - Salt Lake, UT Sat-Jan 5th 7:00PM - Maverik Center - Salt Lake, UT Sat-Jan 12th 7:30PM - US Cellular Coliseum - Bloomington, IL Sat-Jan 19th 7:30PM - Hampton Coliseum - Hampton, VA Sat-Feb 23rd 7:30PM - The Ford Center - Evansville, IN (Tickets not on sale yet)   I.C.E. World Headquarters, P.O. Box 8648, Myrtle Beach, SC 29578 P: (843) 750-0741; E:info@icespeedway.com ; www.icespeedway.com   THE GREATEST SPECTACLE ON ICE!TM -Celebrating 37 years of arena motorsports entertainment excellence-	International Championship Events, LLC. PO Box 8648 Myrtle Beach, SC 29578 EMAIL I.C.E. HERE
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AMA Road Racing: KTM/HMC Superbike Team Signs Taylor Knapp as Team Mate to Chris Fillmore in AMA Superbike for 2013 Season

KTM/HMC Superbike Racing's KTM RC8R superbikes sit on display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 5th Annual Red Bull Indianapolis MotoGP in August 2012.  Chris Fillmore's #11 and Stefan Nebel's #12 adorn the KTM display that also featured many of the company's other wares throughout the weekend.

In the first full season for the team in the 2012 AMA Pro National Guard Superbike Championship Fillmore took the #11 KTM/HMC Superbike Team's machine to three top-5 finishes, two of which came at the season-ending round at New Orleans (4th/5th-place) and also managed to pull-out nine top-10s in a season that saw the former AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Series winner sit out three races due to a broken hand suffered at the Mid-Ohio round in July.  Tally all of that together and Fillmore still pulled out an 11th-place overall finish in the superbike standings.

German team mate Nebel, a former 2-Time IDM German Superbike Champion and IDM Superstock Champion, also competed in nine races with the team with two top-10 finishes.  At the end of the season, Nebel was ranked as the 17th-place rider in the overall championship standings.

After only running a handful of events in the 2011 season, the team is now geared up to run it's second full season in the series, and announced on Friday that they had signed rider Taylor Knapp to compete alongside Fillmore for the 2013 AMA Superbike Championship.  Knapp had previously competed in the superbike, supersport and Daytona SportBike classes in the previous few seasons and brings another fresh and young face to the HMC squad.

You can check out the full press release below along with some other links to what and how the KTM-based team will be moving forward for the 2013 season.


Here's the official press release from KTM/HMC Racing thanks to AMA Pro Road Racing on the signing of Taylor Knapp to the squad for the 2013 season:

http://amaproracing.com/rr/news/index.cfm?cid=55293

SpeedTV.com's Evan Williams talks about the signing in this article and the bright outlook for the team in the upcoming season:

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ama-sbk-ktm-poised-for-breakthrough-season/

AMA Pro Road Racing talked with team owner Mitch Hansen back at the end of November about the team's off-season testing and keeping rider Chris Fillmore onboard:

http://amaproracing.com/rr/news/index.cfm?cid=55258

And you can check out the KTM/HMC Racing team's link from the AMA Pro Road Racing site here:

http://amaproracing.com/rr/teams/team.cfm?tid=2283