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Tim Farr
was in attendance as team manager for
Team FRE KTM keeping Adam McGill and
Taylor Kiser on track running strong
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Sommers was able to edge out Rockstar/Yoshimura
Suzuki's Chris Borich for fifth. Borich, the winner
of the series' opener in Florida, spent most of
the race trying to recover from a bad start.
Dry weather in North Carolina leading up to
the race had many riders fearing dust, but rain
came on Friday night and stayed through most
of the day on Saturday. The track ended up slick,
even though the ATVs sling a lot of the mud
off of the top layer of the course.
Don Ockerman took the XC2 class on his GT Thunder
Yamaha. Brian Wolfe challenged Ockerman for
most of the day, with Tyler Lening in third.
Ockerman collected the Rekluse XC2 Holeshot
award, partly because he uses Rekluse clutches
in his machine." I want to thank Rekluse,
the clutches give you perfect power and traction,
and now they gave me a little bit of money!"
said Ockerman. "I caught up with some pros
I could run with and that helped me pull away.
But Bryan was right there with me with two laps
to go, so I let it have it. I never looked back."
In the morning race, run under difficult, rainy
conditions, Yamaha's Traci Cecco captured the
overall and the Women's class win once again
on her factory YFZ450. U2 class rider Michael
Benson scored the top overall utility finish
with second overall on his Kawasaki KFX700.
The veteran actually led the race overall until
a crash on the last lap. Michael Swift took
a Can-Am Outlander 800 to the 4x4 Limited win
and third overall.
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Chris Borich
finished 6th at Round 3 which puts him
7th place overall
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Adam McGill
started out the race strong by grabbing
the holeshot
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The 2008 Can-Am Grand National Cross Country
Series continues with the Pirelli Big Buck GNCC
in Union, South Carolina on April 12 and 13.
The Big Buck will also debut GNCC UTV/Side-by-Side
racing on Saturday. For more information, including
complete results, check out www.gnccracing.com.
