FW: POLLARD NITROSPORTS BRINGING CANADIAN DRAG BIKE RACING INTO THE MAINSTREAM
POLLARD NITROSPORTS BRINGING CANADIAN DRAG BIKE RACING INTO THE MAINSTREAM Team Gathers Top Canadian Motorcycle Award and Cracks the Line-up for the London Sports Celebrity Dinner (January 8, 2009)Dorchester, ON – With a banner year behind them, one that saw them become the first Canadian drag bike team to record a five second elapsed time, the recognition for brothers Greg and Geoff Pollard continues to expand with the recent announcement that together they will receive a Motorcycle Award of Excellence while attending the North American International Motorcycle Supershow, while Geoff will be a featured guest at the Rogers London Sports Celebrity Dinner. The Motorcycle Awards of Excellence (MAX Awards) are known as Canada's motorcycle 'Oscars' and will be presented in over 50 categories including Canadian Racing Champions, Rider Achievement and Media and Sponsorship, for all that showed excellence during 2009. By receiving the award for International Competition the Pollard’s are recognized as one of the top race teams in Canada. This marks the third time that the Pollard’s have received a MAX Award with their previous wins coming in 2000 and 2005, once again for their outstanding achievements in international competition. The award will be presented during the North American Motorcycle Supershow January 15-17, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario where the Pollard’s Top Fuel Motorcycle will be on display for the weekend as a featured part of the event. For more information about the event visit www.supershowevents.com. On top of being presented with a MAX Award, Geoff Pollard will also be an honoured head table guest at the Rogers London Sports Celebrity Dinner January 18, 2010 at the London Convention Centre in London, Ontario. There he will join noted athletes from several genres of sport including former NHLer’s Craig Simpson and Dennis Hull as well as three-time Canadian Olympic Rowing Champion Marnie McBean and rising hockey star Nazem Kadri of the London Knights OHL Hockey Club. With their string of impressive performances in 2009, that included two AMA national event wins and recording the first five second elapsed time by a Canadian drag bike team, the Pollard brothers have brought a degree of mainstream notoriety to the Canadian drag bike arena as is evidenced by their invitation to participate in an event such as the Rogers London Sports Celebrity Dinner. “Being asked to attend the London Sports Celebrity Dinner is a great honour and it really puts an exclamation point on how much awareness we raised amongst the general public with our performances on the track in 2009.” said Geoff Pollard. For 53 years, a committee of volunteers from the Rotary Club of London and London Sports Media has organized the Rogers Sports Celebrity Dinner and Auction with the sole purpose of raising funds for Thames Valley Children's Centre. To purchase tickets to the event visit www.londonsportsdinner.ca. About Pollard NitroSports On the track since the mid 80’s Geoff Pollard has piloted several types of racing motorcycle to event championships and national elapsed time and speed records. In 1993 Pollard Racing Canada was formed with the introduction of the teams Alcohol Funny Bike. In 1999 Geoff scored a Pro Star national event victory and became the first Canadian to eclipse 200 miles per hour on a motorcycle. After a close battle for the national point’s championship in 2000 the Pollard’s passion to go faster led them to the Top Fuel Motorcycle division. The team excelled out of the gate in 2005 setting the Canadian national record for the class and winning another Pro Star national event making Geoff the first rider in Pro Star history to win an event in Funny Bike and Top Fuel competition. The Pollard NitroSports team debuted a new Top Fuel Motorcycle in 2008 and proceeded to reset both ends of the Canadian record with a 6.08 elapsed time, 231 miles per hour blast in November of that same year. 2009 offered more record-breaking performances for the team as they became only the 5th members of the MTC Engineering 5-second club with a 5.96 second elapsed time. The team also captured two AMA Dragbike national event wins in 2009 and recorded the quickest drag bike run in history on Canadian soil. They finished the 2009 campaign with a runner-up finish at the season ending AMA XXX Racing Fuels National Finals, en route running a stunning 5.93 elapsed time at 241 miles per hour, giving them the distinction of being the fastest, non-U.S. based drag bike in the world. For more information about Pollard Nitrosports visit www.pollardnitrosports.com. Team Contact: Greg Pollard T: 519.268.0462 E: greg@pollardnitrosports.com Media Contact: Jory Elliott DRIVEN Marketing and Media T: 519.204.3446 E: jory@drivenmarketingandmedia.com _________________________________________________________________ Reinvent how you stay in touch with the new Windows Live Messenger. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9706116