KTM's Adam McGill
Eyes 4th Straight GNCC Win This Weekend
GNCC Racing - Round 5 - Loretta
Lynn Ranch - April 26, 2008
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| KTM's
#5 Adam McGill Wins his 3rd Straight GNCC
Race and extends his points lead to 33 points
over Brandon Sommers in 2nd Place |
Hurricane Mills, TN (4/21/2008)
- FRE KTM's Adam McGill must endure a difficult
transition as he battles for the Can-Am Grand National
Cross Country Series Championship. The 20-year-old
from West Union, West Virginia used to be known
as the funny man of the GNCC tour, but the competition
doesn't find his three-race win streak a laughing
matter. As a result, the pro pits are now a lonely
place for McGill.
"Nobody talks to me anymore," says
McGill. "Nobody comes up and jokes around
with me anymore. But I don't want to change anything.
Winning these races is fun, too."
Fun for him, yes, but the competition hopes to
put an end to his streak this weekend at the Acerbis
Loretta Lynn's GNCC in Hurricane Mills, TN. The
longest-running event on the GNCC tour, Loretta's
offers high-speed whooped out terrain that will
test the stamina of the world's best four-wheeled
woods pilots.
The GNCC "Killer B's" of Bill Ballance
and Chris Borich hope to rebound at Loretta's.
The duo usually dominates the races, but they
currently sit fourth and fifth in the 2008 standings.
Borich switched to the Rockstar/Yoshimura Suzuki
team this season and won the season opener in
Florida, but has yet to finish on the podium (top
three) since. Ballance suffered uncharacteristic
mechanical troubles at the second race of the
season in Georgia and is still winless four rounds
into the year.
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Chris Borich
switched to the Rockstar/Yoshimura Suzuki
ATV team this season and won the season
opener in Florida, but has yet to finish
on the podium since.
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Another young rider sits second in the standings.
Yamaha's Brandon Sommers, the 2007 GNCC XC2 Pro-Am
Champion, has mixed consistent finishes with developing
speed to get closer and closer to a victory. Sommers
battled McGill hard for a few miles at the last
race before logging another podium finish.
Veteran Bryan Cook has been the surprise of the
season. The privateer sits third in the standings,
and the Team Excell Motorsports rider is thrilled
to have so much factory-backed talent behind him.
"It gives you that little extra drive late
in the race when you know you're out front of
those guys," says Cook.
The GNCC field may be deeper than ever, with
additional competition coming from Safari Motorsports'
veteran Matt Smiley, the National Guard's William
Yokley, McGill's KTM teammate Taylor Kiser, Can-Am
Warnert Racing's Chris Bithell and Chris Jenks,
and LTERacing.com Can-Am's Duane Johnson and Brent
Sturdivant. The list of riders that could win
this weekend's race easily goes into double digits.
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Current Overall
Point Standings
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- Adam McGill – 106
- Brandon Sommers –
73
- Bryan Cook – 71
- Chris Borich –
63
- Bill Balance –
62
- Matthew Smiley –
60
- Taylor Kiser –
57
- William Yokley –
54
- Ryan Lane – 45
- Donald Ockerman - 39
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The 10 a.m ATV morning race will feature a battle
for the overall between top contenders in the
Women's class and the best Utility and 4x4 riders.
Yamaha's Traci Cecco, Tom Clark Motorsports' Angel
Atwell and Yamaha of Troy's Stephanie Parton will
duke it out in the Women's ranks. In the 4x4 divisions,
Bryan Buckhannon (4x4 Open) and Cliff Beasley
(4x4 Lites) are undefeated in the first four rounds
of racing. In addition, Michael Swift (4x4 Limited)
and Mike Benson (Utility Unlimited) figure to
be contenders for the morning race overall win.
Saturday's action begins with youth racing at
8 a.m. The morning race begins at 10 a.m., and
Pro classes race at 1 p.m.
Dirt bike racing will follow the ATV show on
Sunday. Red Bull KTM's David Knight looks for
his third-straight win after a victory in South
Carolina two weeks ago.
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