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GBC
Gets Behind Breast Cancer Awareness at Ironman
GNCC
GNCC
ATV Racing - Round 12 - Crawfordsville, IN -
October 22, 2011
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Eric Hoyland sits atop the podium with a
solid 3rd place finish in the XC2 Pro Am
class at the Ironman GNCC. Hoyland's sixth
podium appearance of the season is good
enough for 3rd place in the standings |
Ontario, CA (10/27/2011) -The Ironman
GNCC has long been known as the largest and most
prestigious event on the series schedule. However,
for the second year in a row this stop on the tour
has been about something bigger than racing itself.
The weekend started off with GBC team riders
Johnny Gallagher and Jeff Pickens making a special
visit to a local Indiana elementary school where
the riders spoke to hundreds of 5th and 6th grade
students about Breast Cancer Awareness. The two
racers even helped the students fashion pink ribbon
pins that would allow them free entry to the Ironman
festivities for the weekend.
“I really enjoyed spending time with the
kids, and it was great to see many of them actually
make it out to the race wearing their pins and
cheering us on,” said Jeff Pickens after
his grueling 2-hour race on Saturday afternoon.
“I couldn’t believe how many of the
students knew all about our racing, and it felt
good to see them so enthused about learning more
about such an important cause,” commented
Johnny Gallagher upon leaving New Market Elementary
on Friday.
Kristen Atwell started the weekend’s race
action off right by leading much of the race and
landing a hard-fought 2nd place in the women’s
division. Atwell also made an impressive 4th place
overall finish out of more than 320 morning racers!
Look for Kristen to bounce back from some recent
struggles and make a statement at the final race
at Loretta Lynn’s in Tennessee.
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GBC Motorsports rider Kristen Atwell
fights through the mud on the way to a 2nd
place finish in the Women's ATV class |
Jeff
Pickens makes his way to a seventh place
finish in the XC1 Pro class at the Ironman
GNCC in Crawfordsville, IN |
Jeff Pickens was the standout performer in the
afternoon race with his 7th place finish in XC1,
followed very closely by Kevin Yoho in 8th. Eric
Hoyland landed his X-Rex tires on the XC2 podium
with a 3rd place finish after grabbing yet another
holeshot.
Jay Shadron heads up this week’s list of
GBC riders who earned class wins, and his remarkable
11th place overall finish on a 300cc machine certainly
shows that he is one to watch for in the future.
Other GBC team riders who won their classes this
weekend were Ryan Smith, Garon Davis, Forrest
Wharton and Chris Barbee.
With only one round remaining in 2011 competition,
we are excited to see all of our team riders step
up to the plate at Loretta Lynn’s in Hurricane
Mills, TN the weekend of November 4-6. This is a
great opportunity to build some momentum going into
the off-season. We will also have some exciting
giveaways happening through our Facebook and Twitter
pages over the next few weeks so be sure to “Like”
us at www.facebook.com/gbcmotorsports
and follow us at www.twitter.com/gbcmotorsports.
About GBC Motorsports
GBC Motorsports evolved out of Greenball Corporation
(www.greenball.com),
which has been in the specialty tire industry
for more than 30 years. ATV tires were first built
by Greenball in 1980. Then in 1995, GBC Motorsports
was formed to focus on bringing to the ATV and
Powersports market performance tires for every
riding style. GBC’s passion is to provide
the highest quality and most innovative performance
tires to the Powersports enthusiast.
www.gbcmotorsports.com
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