The fourth round of the ESL Sports Need for Speed: Shift Premiership took place in Spa on last Sunday. SK Gaming already dominated the qualifying session with the first four places in the starting grid of Group One.

Unfortunately Christoph 'DreaF' Hörenbaum, who was ranked on third, had an incident very early in the race which costed him a lot of time, positions and points. Danny 'HuskY' Engels, Robin 'Xanatos' Lagler and Niklas 'Sliver' Timmermann though had a perfect race. They were pulling away from the very first second and showed a really strong performance.

In the end, after sixteen laps around the historic racing circuit of Spa-Francochamps,
Danny 'HuskY' Engels had a 10 seconds lead infront of his teammate Robin 'Xanatos' Lagler. Niklas 'Sliver' Timmermann followed with a solid performance on thrid, while FoX was the only remaining player to finish the race before time-up on fourth.

1st: Danny 'SK.HuskY' Engels - 2000 points
2nd: Sebastian 'ALTERNATE|Schw4rz' Schwarz - 1840 points
3rd: Niklas 'SK.Sliver' Timmermann - 1830 points
4th: Marco 'FoX' Dachl - 1790 points
5th: Robin 'SK.Xanatos' Lagler - 1780 points
6th: Markus 'n!r4veNNN' Ullrich - 1770 points
7th: Christoph 'SK.DreaF' Hörenbaum - 1750 points
8th: Georg 'n!montrey' Burak - 1750 points
9th: Ronny 'n!Jas0n' Fiebig - 1730 points
10th: Christian 'n!Lexx' Schäffer - 1680 points

Complete ranking can be found here.

Next Premiership race is going to be on 29 November 2009 as we are heading into the first break of the season. In meanwhile other cups will take place, for expamle the ESL NFS:S Autumn Challenge where Danny 'HuskY' Engels just faced 'n!montrey' in the Overall Final a few moments ago. HuskY already decided the match quite early and took home another victory. More information about the match and the entire tournament can be found here.

Furthermore EA Masters started their first online qualifier tournament where Danny 'HuskY' Engels and Niklas 'Sliver' Timmermann are going to fight for an offline final spot. Sliver also joined the ESL NFS:S European Challenge which started a few days ago. We will keep you up-to-date!