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GNCC
ATV Racing
Round 7 - "Snowshoe
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Patton, PA (6/27/2011)
- Adam McGill pocketed $5000 with the win.Snowshoe,
W.Va (June 25, 2011) -Adam McGill pocketed a cool
$5,000 and moved within striking distance of the
2011 Can-Am Grand National Cross Series points
lead by taking a spectacular win at the Motosport.com
Snowshoe GNCC, round eight of the series at Snowshoe
Mountain Resort in Snowshoe, West Virginia.
With the win, his second of the year, McGill
moved to within seven points of series points
leader Chris Borich, who finished a disappointing
12th after mud clogged his radiator and caused
the engine on his Rockstar Makita Suzuki to
overheat.
McGill's Foremost Insurance/Warnert Racing
Can-Am teammate Chris Bithell finished second
after leading much of the race, while FRE Racing
KTM's Bryan Cook claimed his first podium finish
of the year with a third.
Friends of Coal donated $5K for the race.Billed
as America's Toughest Race, the Snowshoe GNCC
is two hours of grueling mountain two-track
set at 4,800 feet in elevation, and each year
the event awards a generous overall purse, this
year courtesy of St. Lawrence Radiology Group
and Friends of Coal. Just finishing this race
is a major accomplishment and Borich kicked
it off by grabbing the $250 Motosport.comHoleshot
Award to start the race. The defending series
champ led the opening lap until a small mistake
in the woods allowed GT Thunder's Brian Wolf
to take the lead.
Wolf, last year's Snowshoe winner, made the
most of the gift that Borich had given him and
at mile-marker 13 his pit crew was telling him
he had a one-minute lead over second, however,
his day came to an abrupt end when he snapped
his chain on the rocky trail. At that point,
Bithell took his turn up front and held a comfortable
gap at the halfway point of the race.
Chris Bithell led much of the race.On the final
lap, McGill found his way around Bithell and
into the lead when he blitzed a nasty mud hole
that Bithell chose to ride around. Borich was
on the move as well, and passed Bithell a short
time later to move into second before setting
his sights on McGill. Once Borich got within
striking distance of McGill, however, his engine
locked up and left him on the side of the trail,
leaving McGill with nothing but clear trail
ahead of him.
At the finish, McGill crossed the line with
fist in the air to claim the "W" ahead
of Bithell and Cook.
"I can't describe how good this feels,"
said McGill. "Bithell was ahead of me and
he went up around a ditch and I just hit it
wide open and got the lead," said McGill.
"I knew from there if I could get through
the last mud hole I could win it and I just
pushed and pushed. I looked back at one point
and Borich was behind me and then all of a sudden
he was gone and that was it."
