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GNCC
ATV Racing
Round 12 - "Powerline
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| Suzuki's
Chris Borich Holds up the 1st place trophy
for the 9th Time this year in the Pro
ATV XC! Class |
St. Clairsville, OH (10/4/2009) -
Rockstar Yoshimura Suzuki's Chris Borich may have
wrapped up the 2009 Can-Am Grand National Cross
Country Championship, but that obviously won't
change the way he races. In yet another full-tilt
battle for ATV supremacy, the Pennsylvanian out
dueled FRE KTM's Adam McGill to collect his seventh-straight
win in the XC1 Pro class. Houser Racing's Bryan
Cook took third on a track that featured perfect
conditions through most of the course, but threw
a few bottomless mud holes at the riders as well.
Borich's day started poorly when he got stuck
in one of those holes on the first lap. "My
crew was down there pointing out the line, I
thought it was solid but I buried the nose,"
said Borich. GNCC fans ran down to rescue Borich,
hastily throwing a tow rope onto the machine
and giving him a pull. But the rope became wrapped
in his rear axle and stayed there all day long.
"I didn't know what that might have damaged
flapping around back there, but I have to thank
all of those guys anyway because if they didn't
get me out, I would have been stuck there all
day," said Borich, who was back in ninth
after the incident.
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Chris Borich had a rope get wrapped around
his axle in the 1st lap when he got stuck
in a mud hole, which dropped him back
8th place, but by the 3rd lap, he caught
and passed KTM"s Adam McGill for
the lead with McGill shadowing Borich
to the checkered for the 2nd spot
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Yamaha's nine-time GNCC Champion Bill Ballance
scored the $250 MotorcycleUSA.com holeshot award
and led early. His teammate Brandon Sommers
then made a pass for the lead, and Ballance
pitted on lap one.
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Yamaha's Bill Ballance once again grabbed
the Holeshot with the all-new Yamaha YFZ450X
Bill Ballance Edition ATV |
The pack kept both Yamaha riders in sight,
and eventually McGill, Cook and Borich made
it a five-way battle for the lead. Ballance
took the lead when Sommers pitted, but then
he got stuck in the mud hole just a few miles
before the white flag came out. Borich found
himself in the lead, but McGill stayed with
him in a wild last-lap showdown.
