Everyone sees him at the races. "Big" John Knox and his booming voice keeps everyone safe and in line at the GNCCs. But not many of you probably know much about the big guy, like the fact that he was a tennis coach or an NFL football player. "Big" John got back from the Motocross of Nations and a South African Safari…
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Doug Howarth just won his first GNCC championship. The 14-year-old high school freshman just tied up the ATV Youth championship, and what makes this even more impressive is that this is his first year racing GNCC. Howarth, who races in the 90 Modified (12-15) class, spent some time after school to tell us about his…
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After almost sitting out the 2009 season, Angel Atwell was signed to FRE KTM just weeks before the season started. And boy, it's a good thing Tim Farr came along to sign her! Atwell just won up her first GNCC Championship by tying up the women's class with two races to go. Angel took time out to share about her most…
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Things are progressively getting better for Husaberg's Jesse Robinson. At the beginning of the 2009 season, before Husaberg came along, Robinson was still on his 2008 bike. Then, Husaberg showed up and offered Robinson had a brand new ride. He started an intense training program, lost weight and now that he's on a…
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Shock Doctor KTM's Nate Kanney is one of the most confident riders in the GNCC Series, but he's had his fair share of setbacks along the way. Photographer Theresa Ortolani captured his rise to factory rider through her book Endurance. Kanney took a few minutes out to talk about his experiences with the book and what…
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Brandon Sommers just returned from his second trip to France to race the Pont de Vaux with Bill Ballance and Taylor Kiser, and while his racing improved, his opinion of French food did not. Sommers took some time out from getting ready for GNCC to tell us a little bit about his French experience.
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Walker Fowler seems to have made the right decision to stick to quads. After battling it out on both bikes and ATVs each weekend, he finally decided to stick to quads for 2009, hoping to make a name for himself. And this year Walker has grabbed the Top Amateur Award numerous times and he's poised to wrap up the…
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A few years ago, Bruce Vermeulen was injured in a harescramble. Luckily, the nature of his job allowed him to keep working, but he knew other riders weren't so lucky. Now, after almost 5 years, the organization he founded, RiderDown, is doing everything possible to help injured riders back on their feet, from…
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Chris Bach has done it all, GNCC, WORCS, Motocross, Regionals, OMA's, you name it, he's raced it. Despite some hard knocks from the economy along the way, Bach is back again in GNCC. He suffered a few problems during the year, but he finally got the Top Amateur Award at Snowshoe, beating out his hardest…
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If you've been paying attention to the XC2 Pro Lites Class, you would've noticed a certain Kawasaki rider missing from the results the last three rounds. We caught-up with that rider to find out where he's been!
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Cory Buttrick is about to realize an almost life-long dream. From October 12-17, 2009, Buttrick will be competing in the International Six Days Enduro, something he's hoped to do since he was 6 six years old. Now Buttrick has his chance and he tells us about the road to Portugal.
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Don Ockerman wrapped up the XC2 title last year in time to ruffle some feathers in the XC1 class, taking second place in the last two races of the season. Ockerman hasn't been able to repeat the same success in 2009 but he says he's making some changes to his program to help. Ockerman is 30 soon, and in Tuesday…
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Steward Baylor, Jr., a third generation racer has just finished winning the 200 A Class in GNCC. Baylor dominated the GNCC Youth ranks last year, but now after turning 15 and getting a big-bike title, he has all summer break to plan his next move, which may include a new bike and a try at the XC2 class after a summer…
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Brian Wolf just set a GNCC record. He's the first XC2 Pro-Am ATV rider to win the afternoon overall. An added plus is that it was at the MotorcycleUSA.com Snowshoe GNCC, so he took home a cool $10K. Wolf works a full time job and even though he's on the path to take the XC2 Championship this year, he might not come…
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"Man, I can't be shown up by my own mother!" That's what XC2 rider Jake Korn said when his mom started riding dirtbikes. Korn said when his mom started riding, it was time to step up his game. So, Korn grew up as a NETRA rider, like his father before him, but the New Hampshire 21-year-old switched to GNCCs in 2008 and…
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Jimmy Jarrett has been around for years in the GNCC world and this year, he might be having his best year yet. One of the older guys to still be racing, he's holding his own in the bike XC1 pro class and has finished on the podium four times this year. Heading into Snowshoe, he is motivated to bring home a…
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Team Warnert Racing / Can-Am's Michael Swift fell into GNCC racing after racing local Harescrambles. Soon he found out he was actually really good at it! Swift decided to join Mike Penland to race Baja in 2005 and the rest is history. He hooked up with BRP Can-Am and sent his resume in and now, he's juggling owning…
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Dirk DeCesare has had a few set-backs in his career. His first year in the pro class, in fact his very first race in the pro class could quite possibly be called a disaster. DeCesare sustained injuries in a wreck in the first mile and spent several months rehabilitating. As soon as the doctors said he was able to do…
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Randy Hawkins is an icon in the off-road industry, and that's why the AMA just announced he's going into their motorcycling Hall of Fame. Randy's seven AMA National Enduro Championships alone would qualify him as a hall-of-famer but he has done so much more, from managing and owning the Am-Pro FMF Yamaha team, to…
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Mike Benson has been around for a long time in GNCC racing-nearly 30 years, in fact. For the last three, he's been battling in the GNCC U2 class in the ATV morning race, battling for class and overall wins. Mike came close over and over, but he finally pulled one out at Mountain Ridge. Here's more on Mike.
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