3rd Annual Life Day Grand Prix Massive Success

This is Patch Zaine for Arkanis Sports Syndicated with breaking news for sports fans across the galaxy. The champion of the third annual Life Day Grand Prix is Team Orange, which was sponsored this year by Ashura Harma, an honorary sergeant of the Reformed Grand Army of the Republic. Followers of the Grand Prix will recall this is Team Orange’s second consecutive victory, having dominated the Year 26 season with Minwolf Kandar at the helm.

The Life Day Grand Prix is an annual racing extravaganza sponsored by Ternion Corps in memory of the clone soldiers who died defending the Galactic Republic, and in honor of all those struggling to restore the Republic and her ideals across the galaxy. The clone units who fly and maintain these racing speeders continue a proud legacy harkening back to the underground races duing perods of R&R which became common at several Republic bases during the war. This year the Grand Prix was a grueling circuit of twelve races starting on Day 7 and concluding on Day 18. Five racing teams tested their mettle against each other on six different tracks on four different worlds, including desert canyons, ice caves, lava fields, open ocean, mountainous jungle, and the maelstroms of a gas giant. Season three saw the adoption of tracks by corporate and government sponsors, including the Jedi Order, Rogue Squadron, Twin Suns Trading, The Trade Federation, The Resistance, and of course, Ternion Corps itself.

While all five teams came within two points of qualifying for the championship race, the three final competitors were Harma’s Orange Team; the Blue Team, managed by former Grand Prix champion pilot Minwolf Kandar; and the Red Team, managed this year by Cangeson Wolfsbane, a Clone War veteran himself who sponsored the team in honor of his daughter, Siou Wolfsbane, and all victims of Lost Soul Syndrome. All of us here at ASS join Cangeson in hoping a cure is found soon.

Competition was fierce all season long, and crews often worked overnight to repair damaged speeders and make necessary adjustments before the next day qualifying rounds began. The Championship was held in the Areagla Semper Natural Preserve on Austan IV, home of the “Rumble in the Jungle” track, and as soon as the starting signal was given the Orange speeder took the lead and never looked back. By race’s end they had nearly a minute of distance between themselves and their closest competitor. Blue Team came in second, and Team Red brought up the bottom.

Congratulations to Team Orange on their back-to-back championships, and we cannot wait for next year’s Life Day Grand Prix!