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GNCC
ATV Racing
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St. Clairsville, OH
(10/9/2011) - Chris Borich made a thrilling,
last-lap pass on Brian Wolf to take an exciting,
come-from-behind victory at the ITP Powerline
Park GNCC, round 12 of the 2011 Can-Am Grand National
Cross Series in St. Clairsville, Ohio.
The win marked the seventh time this year the
Rockstar Makita Suzuki rider has graced the
top step of the podium and it increased his
already hefty lead in the series standings to
a massive 36 points over Adam McGill with two
rounds remaining on the schedule.
Dustin Canipe got the ball rolling by grabbing
the holeshot at the start of the two-hour race,
and by doing so, the Honda rider claimed the
$250 Motosport.com Holeshot Award. It wasn't
long, however, before Wolf put his GT Thunder-backed
Honda into the lead, eventually stretching his
advantage to 40 seconds by the end of the opening
lap.
Brian Wolf in the big mud hole.And while Wolf
ran solo out front, McGill and his Foremost
Insurance/Warnert Racing Can-Am teammate Chris
Bithell battled Borich for second - all three
riders taking a turn at the runner-up spot.
However, like he has done so many times before,
Borich put on a last lap charge which saw him
pull within striking distance of Wolf. And with
less than two miles to go in the race, the defending
series champ passed Wolf when the Ohio rider
took a bad line out of a creek.
At the finish, Borich took the checkers two
lengths in front of Wolf, with McGill coming
in for third, another 10 seconds back.
"It feels good to get back on top of the
podium," said Borich. "Brian set a
good pace there at the beginning and he checked
out on us. I was getting pit boards and he had
40-plus seconds on us, so I knew it was going
to be a long day. I battled with Bithell and
McGill for a while and I finally got comfortable
with the track and started pickin' 'em off one
at a time. We ended up catching up with Brian
and it was a good battle right to the end."
Adam McGill rounded out the podium.Fourth
went to Ballance Racing Yamaha's Taylor Kiser,
while Honda-mounted Jarrod McClure finished
fifth.
Donnie Ockerman put his JET Suspension Honda
into sixth at the end of the race, ahead of
Yamaha riders Jeffrey Pickens and Kevin Yoho.
