posted Oct 19th, 2010 - The NSL News will surely spend some time on the latest news from Arizona Airspeed. The new lineup is shaking up the top of the 4-way community in the USA, and there is a lot of discussion of the new situation.

The NSL News story on 24 September 2010 was still reviewing the USPA Nationals 2010 and the situation after the event. The story was mainly focused on Perris Fury and the team's great perspectives for the near future.

The new Airspeed lineup has obviously a strong impact on Fury's situation, as Point Josh Hall will now be training and competing with Airspeed. The new lineup is not only world class in itself, it has also made the situation for the potentially strongest challenger very difficult. Fury needs a new Point.

However, the NSL News begins the coverage of this breaking news at a different point. Airspeed's Tail Mark Kirkby will naturally be the centerpoint of many stories, as he is the longest standing Airspeed member and has connected with each of the new members at some point in time.

The NSL News is also working on Mark Kirkby's NSL Profile, which is long overdue and will be posted very soon. The new Airspeed lineup is the perfect opportunity to introduce the original Airspeed member.

Mark Kirkby has trained and/or competed with all of his three new team mates, even with Josh Hall when he was a player coach for Perris Fury in 2005 sharing the job with Dan BC. He also spent a season with Niklas Hemlin as a member of Team Fastrax in 2006. NSL-TV found the Fastrax competition videos at the Shamrock Showdown 2006 in the archives.

The new Fastrax lineup of 2006, with John Hart and player coaches Mark Kirkby, Doug Park, Niklas Hemlin, launched the 2006 season with a 20.2 average at the Valentine's Meet after finishing the 2005 season with a 19.1 average at the USPA Nationals (John Hart, Eric Gin, Niklas Hemlin, Billy Andrews).

Fastrax followed up with a 20.6 average at the Shamrock Showdown 2006 and then a 21.2 average at the Malevsky Cup 2006.

The 21.6 average at the USPA Nationals 2006 was six points behind the 2006 winner, DeLand Groove, and brought the USPA silver medals.

Mark Kirkby and Niklas Hemlin defeated Airspeed's Odyssey lineup of 2006 (Eliana Rodriguez, Craig Girard, Andy Delk, Brian Johnson) with Fastrax at this competition.

It was also Perris Fury's first USPA Nationals with the complete original lineup. Fury ended up seven points behind Airspeed in 4th place of the USPA rankings.

USPA Nationals 2006		Round1	Round2	Round3	Round4	Round5	Round6	Round7	Round8	Round9	Round10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	1319 17	N21 14	7M 8	9K 10	B22 H 3	420 16	G6 1	12F 2	JL Q P 18	EO 5 D	Total	Avg
1	DeLand Groove	21	19	22	22	22	19	20	19	25	33	222	22.2
2	Russia Black Cat	17	19	24	23	20	17	19	19	29	31	218	21.8
3	USA Fastrax	20	18	24	22	22	17	20	19	25	29	216	21.6
4	Airspeed Odyssey	15	17	21	20	21	17	18	19	27	31	206	20.6
5	Perris Fury	16	17	21	20	20	16	19	17	24	29	199	19.9

Mark Kirkby and Niklas Hemlin did not continue together since Airspeed was calling Mark Kirkby back into his Tail slot in 2007. He had been the Center Inside for Team Fastrax in 2006, as John Hart was learning the Tail slot.

Niklas Hemlin came back with Fastrax and Thomas Hughes in the Center Inside slot in 2007 and battled with Airspeed's new lineup and Mark Kirkby throughout the whole year.

Airspeed won the USPA Nationals 2007 (25.3 - 24.4) and then the gold medals at the World Meet 2008 in France.

Perris Fury with Josh Hall went from a 19.9 average in 2006 to a 21.0 average at the USPA Nationals 2007 and had to watch the other two top teams from the distance at that time.

The USPA Nationals 2007 was the end of the Fastrax project in the 4-way Open Class, but Niklas Hemlin continued to work for Team Fastrax and John Hart. Perris Fury came back in 2008 with the same lineup.

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