Buttrick is back. After a bit of slow start to the 2010 season, Buttrick battled until the end with FMF Makita Suzuki's Josh Strang to make his first podium appearance since moving into the XC1 class after a successful 2009 season in XC2. Buttrick lets us in on what happened on that muddy Steele Creek hill, and how…
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There will be a new face on Pro Pit row this weekend in North Carolina. Chris Bach, last year's top amateur and the biggest surprise this season so far, is moving on up. Bach surprised many by landing on the podium at both the Florida and Georgia rounds and was rewarded with new sponsors and a new place beside the KTM…
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Jesse Robinson lost his factory Husaberg ride over Christmas but instead of letting it get him down, he came roaring into the 2010 season on a new bike and in a new class. While he finished the 2009 season 13th in the XC1 class, this year Robinson has taken the XC2 class by storm with two podium finishes on his KTM.…
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Brandon Sommers threw us a curveball when we called him up for this week's Tuesday Toolbox. Sommers found out just last Friday that he has mono and might not be able to race the first round of the season in just a few days. For someone who had a solid 2009 season, that had to have been bad news, but Sommers finds the…
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AmPro Yamaha's Paul Whibley is used to change. Whibley said he's back at square one, and in many ways he is. With a new team for the 2010 season and annew bike, Whibley is getting ready to defend his first GNCC Championship . We'll check in with Whibley to see how he's doing with his new set-up and how he feels about…
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Glenn Kearney is back for the 2010 season with all kinds of exciting stuff to look forward to. His brother Ben will be joining the Husqvarna ranks as his mechanic, he's on an all-new bike, the TXC 250 4-stroke and he's newly engaged. This year, Glenn will also be racing the National Enduro series as well as the GNCC…
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After Round 9 of the 2009 season, XC1 Pro Santo DeRisi decided he needed a break. The DeRisi's welcomed a new addition to their family in September and Santo really wanted to focus on his family and his business, DeRisi Racing Incorporated. But he and his wife soon realized they missed racing too much! Instead, DeRisi…
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Justin Williamson has had a few ups and downs in his GNCC career. The Florida native started out as a privateer at age 16, and worked his way up to a factory KTM ride and the XC2 Championship in 2007. Then, Williamson switched bikes and started to struggle. In 2009, he essentially fell off the map. In Tuesday Toolbox,…
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XC2 Pro-Am Champion Josh Kirkland says he doesn't talk a whole lot. Maybe you won't hear a lot from him when he's on the podium, but if you read today's Tuesday Toolbox, you'll see how much the native West Virginian will open up, especially after a hard workout! Kirkland talks about what it took to take the…
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Plymouth, Mass., native Bob Santheson grew up around bikes while working at his dad's shop. Through the years, Santheson raced NETRA but came over to the GNCCs in 2003. Since then he's left to race for a local championship and for an injury, but last year he came back to race the XC2 Pro-Lites bike class for the…
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Racer X Contributer Jim Kimball put together this interview with Maria Forsberg just a short while ago. Forsberg, a Washington native, has just signed with KTM as a member of the RPM/KTM Racing Team. Forsberg is gearing up to race the entire 2010 Can-Am GNCC series, after years of racing just about every kind of…
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There's a new face on the GNCC Racing scene. Jeff Canfield was recently appointed as Technical Director for the series. Canfield knows a lot about racing. He grew up racing bikes in upstate New York and spent several years in Pro Racing, as an observer and then as Series Manager of Motocross and Supercross. In Tuesday…
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Remember Andy Lagzdins? Andy got his start in the Blackwater days when he was 20. After spending years racing GNCCs, the Baltimore, Md. native switched to desert racing, taking the Overall Title in the Score International Series and going for his second run in the Baja 1000. Lagzdins is moving to LA from his hometown…
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This is Jarrod McClure's fourth year of racing GNCCs. Newly mounted on a Polaris on the National Guard Polaris Team and under the tutelage of William Yokley, the XC1 Pro said he hopes this is the year he'll bring home a win. Jarrod takes some time out from traveling to Florida to tell us why this might be his year.
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Good news comes to Bryan Cook in pairs. The last time we talked to Cook in Tuesday Toolbox he had just won the Steele Creek GNCC and found out he was going to be a dad. Now, he's a new father to Aimee Lynn and he just got signed to the FRE KTM team for 2010. Cook took some time out from his increasingly busy schedule…
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Theresa Ortolani hasn't gotten much sleep lately. The New York City based photographer is one day away from the launch of Endurance, her first book that covers Shock Doctor KTM's Nate Kanney's rise from privateer to factory rider over three years through stunning photographs and interviews. Ortolani gives us an…
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XC2 Pro-Am's Parker Jones has only been racing for four years, but he's already brought home two championship titles. In 2007 he was the College B Champion and in 2008, he was the College A Champion. In his rookie debut in the XC2 Pro-Am class Jones, who also works full-time at a farm during race season, came in third…
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Senior A (40+) Class Champion Dave Simmons is determined. So determined that even though he lives in snowy Ohio, in the winter he will travel 12 hours just to ride for a day for practice, and return home in time for his full-time job. Simmons has brought home six GNCC championships and in this week's Tuesday Toolbox…
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This is Shawn Javens' second year of racing GNCCs. He didn't even run the entire series last year, but this year he completely dominated the entire Senior B (40+) class by winning every single race. We didn't know much about Javens so we called him up for this week's Tuesday Toolbox.
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JT and Gretchen Bennett, team managers of GEICO/JG Racing Monster Energy Kawasaki, had their first date years ago at the first ever Ironman GNCC. Now, in 2009, the husband and wife team have won their first GNCC championship at the same race with New Zealander Paul Whibley. The Bennett's share their racing history and…
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