Off-Road
Posted: 03/03/09
WMA Pro Tarah Gieger gave her first GNCC a shot, and didn't look too bad out there. The women race in the morning race, along with the slower/less experienced guys and the industry class. She smoked the women, then worked her way deep within the men by the time he two hours of track-time were up.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Gieger was immediately attended to by close friend David Knight, who was on hand to give Tarah advice and companionship. Unfortunately, defending GNCC champ Knight wasn't able to race himself.
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Posted: 03/03/09
The GNCC bike races start in two major waves - the first, AM, race consists of C, women, and other less experienced classes, while the afternoon race consists of the Pro (XC1 and XC2 Lites) classes and the A and B classes. This day, 300 riders made up the PM race.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Up front after the dead-engine start in XC1 was Team FMF/Suzuki Off-Road's Charlie Mullins, who remained in this very position until the checkers flew nearly three hours of Florida sand-whoops later.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Further back in the pack, and this time in turn two, Factory KTM rider Kurt Caselli makes a small mistake that forces Jimmy Jarret (6) and Thad Duvall (7) to back off.
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Posted: 03/03/09
XC2 Pro Lites riders round turn one, with eventual winner Kailub Russell (16) making the turn while runner-up Jason Thomas (no, not THAT Jason Thomas) goes around the outside to eventually wind up 2nd on the day.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Russell straightens out, while the pack bunches up to prepare for the 2nd turn. GNCC races feature a series of turns right after turn one that result in multiple "first turns" to capture a lot of great action, and which frequently end up with crashes and lead changes.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Team Suzuki FMF Off-Road's main man Charlie Mullins put the hurt to the field in Florida this day. Leading uncontested from start to finish, Mullins was absolutely dominant, although runner-up Paul Whibley was able to close in to about a minute by the end.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Whibley was running up front all afternoon in the XC1 class and ended up pushing eventual winner Charlie Mullins toward the end.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Mullins' teammate Josh Strang didn't have as much luck as Mullins when, despite moving way up to 3rd at one point, his RMZ450 ran out of fuel on the final lap.
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Posted: 03/03/09
XC2 Pro Lites contender Scott Watkins blows past one of the huge trees that lined the course in central Florida. The race was located at Westgate River Ranch about an hour south of Orlando
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Posted: 03/03/09
Florida sand specialist and former National (and world) champ Shane Watts made a surprise appearance that looked to be proving quite fruitful. Wattsy had moved up to the front very quickly early on, but unexplained probelms had him back in 14th by the end.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Factory KTM's Nathan Kanney ran in 2nd early during the race, but succumbed to Paul Whibley's un-relenting charge and eventually finished up in 3rd.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Former champ Barry Hawk moved up to the top 4 early in the race, but gave way to Mike Brown just past the halfway point to end up 5th for the day. Not bad for a 37 year old.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Whibs was awesome to see charging through the Florida woods, forcing his way to 2nd by the flag.
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Posted: 03/03/09
Mr. Everything Mike Brown suffered a miserable start and was forced to move through a dust-filled pack to get all the way up to 4th at the end of 3 hours. Brownie looked awesome all day and, after doing the Daytona Supercross this weekend, is thinking of doing the 2nd GNCC round the next day in Georgia.
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Comments (1)
Posted on March 04, 2009 08:22 AM
Rad photos. I wanna race a GNCC some day, but am afraid that I'm not in good enough shape.
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