2014
GNCC Racing Series
Round #11- Mountain Ridge GNCC
Somerset, PA
September 20, 2014 |
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Walker Fowler Takes Mountain
Ridge GNCC Racing Win
Adam McGill & Brycen
Neal round out GNCC racing Podium
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Mountain
Ridge GNCC
Round 11 - GNCC Racing Links |
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Somerset, PA (9/21/2014) - The
Car-Mate Mountain Ridge GNCC made for an exciting
day of racing at the 11th round of the 2014 AMSOIL
Grand National Cross Country Series presented by
Maxxis, an AMA National Championship. N-Fab AmPro
Yamaha’s Walker Fowler captured his fourth overall
victory in the last five rounds, bringing himself
within five points of Chris Borich’s National Championship
lead with only two rounds remaining in 2014. In
the XC2 Pro Am class, SICC Racing/Maxxis-backed
Marshal Goings made his return to the center of
the podium, gaining valuable championship points
on leader Cole Richardson with only a five-point
separation in the standings.
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Yamaha's
Walker Fowler claims his 5th win of the2014
GNCC racing season & moves within
5 points of the Chris Borich in the GNCC
championship points race
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As the green flag dropped for XC1 Pro ATV racing,
it was RacingPowersports / CST Tires / PirateMX.com’s
Adam McGill who claimed the $250 Twin Air/DeRisi
Racing XC1 Holeshot Award and led the pack into
the opening lap of racing. The track conditions
were very dusty so McGill’s holeshot allowed him
to pull away from the group on the first lap,
but Fowler was looming close behind. Fowler admittedly
sat a ways back from McGill in the beginning to
avoid the mass dust clouds that followed each
racer.
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Adam McGill
captured the $250 Twin Air/DeRisi Racing
XC1 Holeshot Award followed by #9 Brycen
Neal
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While McGill and Fowler had put nearly one-minute
on the rest of the field by the end of lap one,
Dave Bayless Motorsports/Dirtworks/DC Cycles Brycen
Neal assumed the third place position right away.
Neal was followed by Maxxis-backed Chris Borich,
who came through the first lap in fourth, as well
as GT Thunder’s Brian Wolf and Precision/Maxxis
Tires Chris Bithell.
As the race wore on, several different battles
formed on the racetrack, making the two-hour race
an exciting one for the fans all the way through.
Perhaps one of the most exciting moments of the
race came on lap two when Fowler decided to forego
his pit stop in order to take the opportunity
to pass McGill without dusty conditions. However,
as Fowler moved into the lead, his pit crew questioned
whether or not he would make it another lap on
fuel.
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Maxxis' #1
Chris Borich finished in 5th, which now
has him in a tight points battle for the
GNCC racing Championship heading into
the final two rounds
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Meanwhile, Borich ran into a slight issue that
ultimately interfered with his rear brakes, and
the five-time champion was forced to come in for
a brief adjustment to the rotor during his first
pit stop. Things didn’t seem to improve for Borich,
as he slipped back into the fifth place position
pretty quickly.
Fowler was able to make it back to his pits for
a successful fuel stop, where he maintained his
lead ahead of McGill for the remainder of the
race. “There were a few times I wasn’t sure the
ATV was going to make it any further,” Fowler
said. “It was overheating from all the dust so
it kept getting hot and shutting off but I just
want to thank the good lord for keeping us safe
and allowing us to make it through.”
Fowler is making all the right moves at exactly
the right time, as the young gun has secured four
of the last five victories late in the season.
Fowler’s recent hot streak has allowed him to
make up a substantial amount of points on Borich’s
lead in the championship standings, where the
duo sits only five points apart heading into the
final two rounds of the season.
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GNCC Racing
Pro XC1 ATV Podium (left to right)
Adam McGill (2nd), Walker Fowler (1st),
Brycen Neal (3rd)
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