CFTA Santa Rosa on Fans Choice

Tonight's Santa Rosa short track is on fanschoice.tv. I was out at Friday night's racing and the track is short and tight, which makes me* a little nervous as I'm racing one of Roland Sands' Indian Sport Scout Superhooligans in a field of fast and rabid hooligan regulars tonight. Big thanks to Indian Motorcycles and Roland Sands Designs for the opportunity. It'll be the first time I've ever sat on one these. What could possibly go wrong?

Practice/Qualifying: 6:00 p.m. ET (3:00 p.m. PT)
Afternoon Heats: 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT)
Opening Ceremonies: 9:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. PT)
Evening Heats: 9:45 p.m. ET (6:45 p.m. PT)
Super Hooligan Main: 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. PT)

Read about Travis's debut on the Indian Superhooligans at the US Superprestigio in SIDEBURN 24.

The short track meeting is organised by our friends at the CFTA, and is the curtain raiser to Sunday's AMA Pro season finale on the mile race, that will see Bryan Smith v Jared Mees, Kawasaki v Harley-Davidson for the 2016 title. Only 2pts separate them. It's a Sunday afternoon race and also live on fanschoice.tv

Practice/Qualifying: 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT) Pre-race Show: 2:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT) Opening Ceremonies: 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT) Heats: 3:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. PT) GNC2 Main: 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT) GNC1 Main: 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT) * Sideburn ed, Gary Inman

Go Sammy

Slammin' Sammy Halbert won Daytona I. More racing from Florida tonight, and you can watch livestreaming on fanschoice.tv

Sammy, running his late brother Jethro's #69, won from Brandon Robinson and Brad Baker was third. Interestingly, Bryan Smith, qualified through the semis, the tough way to make the main, and came fifth. A great result for his championship. Smith has narrowly missed out on the last two titles, because of poor results on singles, compared to Mees.

The Superhooligans were given a support slot, and Roland Sands one on one of his Indian Scout Sixtys. Read all about these bikes in the next issue, out at the end of March.

If you're in the UK or Europe and fancy racing your road bike, the DTRA is running a three-roudn Hooligan class at Peterborough, Hell's Race in Belgium and Dirt Quake. G

Tonight!

Watch it on fanshoice.tv

Superhooligan and Superprestio of the US

This Saturday!

Watch it on fanschoice.tv. Check their site for the timings.

Keep an eye out for Ollie Brindley in the Superprestigio. In the Superhooligan you might spot lots of fmiliar names from the pages of Sideburn. Sideburn's poet, Travis Newbold is our representative, racing a Rolands Sands Designs 2015 Indian Scout.
Plus there is Speed Merchant's Chris Wiggins; SB20 cover star Drake McElroy; Thor Drake from See See; Aaron and Shaun from Suicide Machine Co; Co-Built Geoff and more...

Superhooligan!

Next Saturday in Vegas!
This will be the ultimate fistfight in a phone booth at the indoor arena at the Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas.

Friday night is the finale of the 2015 GNC series. Jared Mees has to be favourite to take the title. He's 7 points clear of Bryan Smith and has had better short track results for the last few years, but Smith's first ever national win was on a short track (though now he is the undisputed mile master - five wins this season, to Mees' one win). And anything can happen on a track like this.

Then on Saturday night is the first Superprestigio of the Americas. It's not attracting the calibre of names that the Spanish one has, and the support race was supposed to the the Roland Sands Designs/ Indian Motorcycles Superhooligan, but I think most people are going to be looking forward to the nuts on the modified street bikes more than the pros on the 450s.

Sideburn's own poet, Travis Newbold, is going to representing Sideburn on an 2015 Indian. It's going to be wild. Americans! Get out there if you can.

And if you can't, everyone can watch it livestreaming on fanschoice.tv G

Artwork by Adi Gilbert/99 Secs

Tonight!

Watch it on fanschoice.tv