posted Mar 3rd, 2011 - NMP-PCH Hayabusa, the Belgian national 4-way team, winner of the Dubai Championship 2011, seems to be ready for the Shamrock Showdown 2011.

Hayabusa added the second victory to the new lineup's meet record last weekend at the Aerokart Indoor Championship 2011 and tied Arizona Airspeed's 2 - 0 streak. In fact, Hayabusa and Airspeed have exactly the same record at the moment. Both teams won one outdoor and one indoor competition each.

Hayabusa won in Dubai and in Paris, while Airspeed took the first places at the Valentine's Meet 2011 and the Paraclete XP Indoor Skydiving Championships 2011. One of the two streaks will end at the Shamrock Showdown...

Correction: NMP-PCH Hayabusa also won the ISR Grand Prix 2010 indoor championship in Roosendaal in November 2010 and has a 3 - 0 winning record, two indoor 1st places and one outdoor 1st place.

Aerokart Indoor 2011		Round1	Round2	Round3	Round4	Round5	Round6	Round7	Round8	Round9	Round10	Total	Avg
R	Open Class	G,H,11,C	L,17,E,20	D,22,J,10	16,19,O	K,M,2,18	B,15,9	N,4,3	Q,P,8,12	5,F,A,6	14,7,21	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	36	30	24	28	29	37	29	27	35	23	298	29.8
2	Maubeuge NPC Aerokart	33	27	23	26	27	34	25	24	32	24	275	27.5
3	Aerodyne DB Defenders	28	26	23	23	24	28	22	23	28	23	248	24.8
4	Maubeuge NPC B2	21	20	17	20	17	24	18	20	24	20	201	20.1
5	Maubeuge NPC B1	21	18	17	19	18	23	20	21	24	19	200	20.0

The new French national lineup placed 2nd at two of the same meets, in Dubai and in Eloy. Aerodyne Aerokart did not compete last weekend in Paris. The French national team has only competed outdoors so far and may prepare to win the first meet in DeLand in little over two weeks.

Hayabusa won two times at Aerokart last weekend. The host of the tunnel competition also organizes the traditional Go-Kart race at the same time. French 8-way world champion of 2006, 2008 and 2010, Clément Martin-Saint-Leon, won the Go-Kart race two years ago. Last weekend, Hayabusa's Andy Grauwels won the race and the prize for the 1st place.

Clément Martin-Saint-Leon placed 2nd in the 4-way competition with a new lineup. He is now in charge of the B-Team that was guided by Emmanuel "Manu" Sarrazin in the past years. Manu Sarrazin is now competing with the French national 4-way team, while Clément Martin-Saint-Leon keeps the second half of the 8-way team in good shape in the meantime. Florian Denonfoux is not a member of the 8-way team. He trained and competed with B-Team Aerokart Amada in 2009 and now continues with Maubeuge NPC Aerokart.

Clément Martin-Saint-Leon explained that new national coach Jeremie Rollett decided to completely re-build the top B-Team when Manu Sarrazin was selected for the national 4-way team. Julien Olek continued with his 4-way and 8-way team mate of 2010, Clément Martin-Saint-Leon, who then added 8-way world champion Thomas Perrin and Florian Denonfoux to the lineup.

All team members have new slots, and Maubeuge NPC Aerokart started from a very low level. However, the 27.5 average is a very promising result at the first meet. Clément Martin-Saint-Leon said that his team will also compete at the World Challenge 2011 and at the World Cup in Germany. He plans to be very competitive with his 4-way lineup when the 8-way team is not training or competing.

The teams in 4th and 5th place are the new B-Team lineups for the next two years. They are young and talented French competitors who will train to become the next generation of French world champions. National coach Jeremie Rollett has selected the lineups and will supervise the progression.

The NSL News mentioned the Deep Blue Defenders a few times during the coverage of the Valentine's Meet.

The new French lineup in the female 4-way category did not compete in Eloy and now attended the team's first competition at Aerokart. That's the place where former team member and world champion of 2010, Françoise Simons-Hamouchi, has been working. She left the team to have her second baby this year.

The Deep Blue Defenders placed 3rd with an impressive 24.8 average. The training in Eloy must have been very successful, as the results show. The two new members, Laurence Hervé (Point) and Perrine Sanchez (Center Inside), started with the team when they had a total of 800 (Laurence Hervé) and 460 (Perrine Sanchez) jumps. The French team will post the first outdoor scores at the Shamrock Showdown.