2015
GNCC Racing Series
Round #9 - Snowshoe
Snowshoe, WV
June 20, 2015 |
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Jarrod McClure Takes first
GNCC Racing Pro ATV Win
Jarrod McClure Wins Snowshoe
GNCC
2015
GNCC Racing
Snowshoe - Round 9
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Snowshoe, WV (6/21/2015) - The
nickname “Sneaky Snake” became even more fitting
for JMR / ATVRiders.com’s Jarrod McClure at round
nine of the 2015 AMOSIL Grand National Cross Country
Series presented by Maxxis, an AMA National Championship
with the AMSOIL Snowshoe GNCC held at the pristine
Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort in West Virginia.
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GNCC Racing
Pro XC1 ATV Podium (left to right)
Walker Fowler (2nd), Jarrod McClure (1st),
Brian Wolf (3rd)
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McClure would control the lead in the early
portions of the race before championship points
leader CST / PirateMX.com / LSR / DeRisi / Tireblocks
/ SG’s Adam McGill would work his way into the
lead on lap three, and hold that lead until the
final lap. However, as the white flag flew, Fasttrax/Wolf
Racing-backed Brian Wolf had worked his way into
the lead on adjusted time with McGill and N-Fab/AmPro
Yamaha/Maxxis/Lonestar’s Walker Fowler out front
with the physical lead.
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Jarrod McClure
earned his first XC1 Pro overall win this
weekend at the AMSOIL Snowshoe GNCC
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With just one mile to go, McGill would find himself
stuck in the thick, deep mud of the infamous “Howard’s
Hole.” McClure capitalized on the mistake and
would find his way into the lead. Fowler would
challenge him to the final corners, but McClure
was able to hold on to come away with his first
ever GNCC Racing overall win.
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Adam McGill
ran into some problems on the last lap,
resulting in an eighth place finish
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“It all really came down to Howards Hole, that’s
where I got around Adam and Walker in the same
spot,” said McClure. “Adam hit a tree trying to
take the line I took which enabled me to get around
him and Walker.”
Fowler would come away with second place overall.
This strong finish coupled with McGill’s misfortune,
resulting in an eighth place finish, and has tightened
up the championship points gap as the series heads
into summer break. McGill‘s point lead has now
dropped to just nine points, which will ultimately
result in exciting racing when the series resumes
on September 15th with the Parts Unlimited Unadilla
GNCC.
Brian Wolf would work his way through the pack
to claim his best finish of the season with third
place overall. Wolf has always excelled in the
rough Snowshoe terrain as he claimed two overall
wins from the XC2 Pro Am class in 2009 and 2010.
Coastal/Waynesburg Yamaha-backed Jay Shadron would
also work his way through the ultra-competitive
XC1 class ranks to come away with fourth place
overall ahead of Maxxis/B. Neal Motorsports’s
Brycen Neal who would round out the top five.
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Brian Wolf
had his best finish of the season, a third
overall
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Bithell Racing/Maxxis/Precision’s Chris Bithell
would start the race on the second row and work
his way up to fourth on the first lap, however
when the rain began to fall and conditions worsened
Bithell would fall back as far as eighth place
before a last lap charge for sixth place overall.
Team Maxxis’ Chris Borich finished seventh overall
for the day, while McGill took eighth. West Virginia
native Brent Sturdivant came in ninth, and BNR/GBC’s
Kevin Yoho rounded out the top 10 in the XC1 class.
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The Snowshoe
GNCC start is a live engine start on the
street
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The rough, rocky and muddy terrain creates a
unique challenge for riders and machines alike
and as rain fell on the late portions of the race,
the course would become and even bigger challenge
for man and machine. This would be an even more
fitting tribute to the original GNCC event, the
Blackwater 100, which began 40 years ago just
around 30 miles from Snowshoe.
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