In XC2 Pro Am, the tables were
turned with the 2007 XC2 Champion Brandon Sommers
entered in XC1, and Don Ockerman pulled the ATVriders.com
$100 Holeshot award. Anthony Hill took the overall
win, with Mark Notman and Kyle Martin in third.
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Donald
Ockerman claimed yet another ATVriders.com
Holeshot Awards |
Third place’s Martin borrowed his little
brother’s ATV for this race, after tearing
his bike to pieces following the last round
in Yadkinville. “I was able to get a real
good start, and was looking forward to the race
thinking I would get ahead of Don Ockerman,
and put some dust between me and everybody else,
but we ended up blowing some corners, two or
three times and let everybody get around us.
I came in the first lap in thirteenth place
and was pretty discouraged, so I just put my
head down and was able to make up a few positions
each lap.”
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Polaris, Billy Good, held onto a 9th finish,
which is a season best |
KTM's
Jeremy Rice charged his way from 25th
to finish in 11th place |
Mark Notman battled his way into second overall
on one of his favorite tracks in the series,
which is also his hometrack in Ohio. “I
didn’t have too bad a start, I was probably
mid pack. I lost them a little bit in the dust
and hooked up with Ockerman when he blew the
corner and just got going.”
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| Anthony
Hill wins the XC2 Class and finishes in
the top 20 Overall, which is a career
best finish, which topped his 6th place
finish at the Penton in 2006, but his
best Overall finish was 10th in 2005 at
the Penton as well |
Anthony Hill brought his best start of the year
to the overall first place podium position. “I
was about fifth or sixth into the woods. Right
out here by the front gate, a bunch of the guys
in front of me blew the turn, and I just got lucky
and saw the line into the woods. I came around
the first lap in second, and was just hoping and
praying that I’d stay up there. Adam Reed
was leading it, and he took gas, and I didn’t
take gas for this race, and it turned out to be
a good deal. 2008 is up in the books yet, I thought
about hanging it up this year, but as of right
now, I’m starting to change my ideas. I
knew I could hang with these guys, I just never
had good starts and always had trouble getting
this bike off the line. Today it paid off.”
The LTERacing.com ride of Angel Atwell found
her way to first overall for the ATV morning
race, beating out Yamaha’s Traci Cecco
for her fourth-straight win in the Women’s
class. Cecco pulled the holeshot, but Atwell
made a break for the lead.
“As soon as you broke out into the long
fields, if you were any more than five feet off
the person in front of you, you couldn’t
see anything,” Atwell said. “I just
kept working and pushing, came out into the field
and she went one way and I went the other, and
she kind of let out of it a little bit in the
dust, and I stayed in it, and got around her and
never looked back. I’m very excited. I can’t
talk highly enough about the sponsors this year
that have helped me get to this point, because
I’ve never even won two in a row, so four
is way past my expectations.”
With the 2007 GNCC Women’s championship
wrapped, Traci Cecco held her Yamaha to second
place overall, with a smile on her face. “When
you’re up here, you just love to be up
here,” she said. “The beginning
of the season, I was just working really hard
and working really good, pulling out those wins,
and that’s what you need to do. Come out
strong in the beginning and wrap up the championship
out early so you can sit back and relax a little.”
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Angel Atwell claims her 4th straight win
of the season, and her 2nd Overall Win |
Warnert
Racing's CanAm racer swept the 4x4 Class
with Swift, Beasley, and Cecco all recording
wins |
Warnert Racing Can-Am’s Rick Cecco won
the Open 4x4 class in a close race with Bryan
Buckhannon, giving Cecco the 2007 Open 4x4 Championship.
His Can-Am teammates Cliff Beasley and Michael
Swift won the 4x4 Lites and 4x4 Limited Class,
respectively. Joshua Ribley won the U2 class,
and Ohio’s own Seth Mumford won the Youth
ATV Overall.
The 2007 Can-Am Grand National Cross Country
Series concludes with the Klotz Ironman GNCC
in Crawfordsville, Indiana on October 27-28
About GNCC Racing:
The AMA/ATVA-sanctioned Can-Am Grand National
Cross Country series is America’s premier
off-road racing series. The 13-round series
is produced exclusively by Racer Productions.
Cross-country racing is one of the most physically
demanding sports in the world. The nearly three-hour
long GNCC races lead as many as 1,800 riders
through tracks ranging from eight to twelve
miles (should also mention the kilometers for
English Canada)in length. GNCC Racing airs weekly
television shows on Versus (formerly Outdoor
Life Network) every Saturday at 3 p.m. and Thursday
at 4 p.m. beginning on April 14. With varied
terrain including hills, woods, mud, dirt, rocks
and motocross sections, GNCC events are tests
of both survival and speed. GNCC featured sponsors
include BRP Can-Am, Parts Unlimited, Moose,
Maxxis, Pirelli, Wiseco, Acerbis, Elka, Geico,
Klotz, FMF, ITP and Weekend Warrior, and riders
compete for over $3 million in series prizes
and contingency money. Associate sponsors include
Alpinestars, Cometic, EK Chain, HiPer Technology,
Laegers, Motion Pro, Moose Utility Division,
Powersport Grafx, Pro Clean, Race Tools, REM,
Scott, Thor, Tire Balls, Twin Air, Weekend Warrior,
and MotoTee’s. Media Sponsors include
Racer X Illustrated, ATV Rider, ATV Sport, ATVRiders.com,
Dirt Rider and ATV Insider. For more information
log on to
www.GNCCRacing.com.
www.gnccracing.com
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