Articles by Rodney Tomblin

In 2009 Youth ATV Racer Zach Jones and his family made plans to race the entire season and make a bid for a coveted Youth ATV Championship. The night before the Big Buck GNCC they literally had everything taken away. Truck, trailer, Quad, RZR and all the other race stuff were gone along with a dream. But thanks to…
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When it's been over 2 years since your last GNCC win what motivates you? Especially when it seems no matter how well you ride and it always seems to be jerked away in the end? Not this time! Warnert Racing/Foremost Ins. Group/ Can-Am's Adam McGill not only led the biggest portion of a race but actually took the…
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A battle to the finish after a three hour race through the mountains of Steel Creek in North Carolina is nothing new. The unpredictable finish of a GNCC in the mountains of Steel Creek in North Carolina has somewhat become a tradition actually. But I don't think anyone saw coming what happened in 2011. Charlie…
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In December 2010, one of off-road racing's greatest, 8-Time GNCC Champion Barry Hawk announced he was retiring from competition and moving onto a new chapter in life. Today only few months later Hawk is back and more involved than ever and living out his boyhood dream riding dirt bikes, quads and bulldozers playing…
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It's the dream of every fan/racer of the sport to land a job in the industry, but for very few does that dream actually come true. After recently graduating college, Jen Kenyon has gotten to experience what the other side of racing is all about as the new Media Manager for Racer Productions.
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Welcome to Tuesday Toolbox this week coming to you from the Parts Unlimited River Ranch GNCC. As the long wait of the new racing of season is over, racers began to file into Westgate River Ranch on Friday for this opening round of 2011. A number of familiar faces are popping up with big smiles and new attitudes on…
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In the world of off-road racing there are few races or series that compare to the excitement of GNCC racing. At the same time there are few places that compare to what round one of the 2011 Can Am GNCC Championship Series has at Westgate River Ranch. You have heard about or maybe even read about it and this year…
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If you have ever been to a GNCC then you may relate to the transformation that every individual fan/racer has ever gone through. Some have come and gone with a respect but nary a will to ever try it again. Others have come and never left whether it be laying it on the line for a championship, cheering your favorite…
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When a passion turns into a way of life sometimes a decision must be made. It was a "it's going to be hard, but I am going to step back" moment for a rider that loved racing his ATV that may change the world for a lot of up and coming off-road racers. Say hello to a "New" Santo Derisi, Derisi Racing's Team Manager.
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The new Racer TV schedule released this past week included the addition of Side by Side UTV racing to its programming and that added a fire to the world of GNCC UTV Racing. The next generation racer and racers machines are being readied for the biggest thing to come to their sport. At the forefront and hoping to…
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Lately it seems that the" www" world has really been lighting up with the hosting of off road racing sites. And each is unique and different enough to co-exist with each other in this tiny world of GNCC. It all boils down to the fact that if you ever experience GNCC you will never be the same. That is basically…
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When what you know best becomes your worst nightmare, what do you do? That is a question that one of the world's greatest off road racers was faced with at the height of his career. Shane Watts had conquered the world of off-road racing from World Enduro Champion to GNCC Champion and still never reached total…
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The rise and fall of an off road racer can sometimes be quick and painful. A number of competitors walk away licking their wounds never to be heard of again. However, a few like Nathan Kanney have the hunger and "Endurance" to put everything they have into the dreams they dream and stop at nothing to reach their goal.
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Passion is what drives most people to do what they do. Passion in one can spawn desire in another and that drive can inspire another. That seems to be the case in the off road racing community and though some have chosen to take to the woods and release the beast within, others can only live vicariously through the…
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The 2011 Can-Am GNCC Schedule has been set, and we've lined up a chat with Trail Boss Jeff Russell to find out more about some exciting new tracks on the schedule.
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The one thing that sets GNCC Racing apart from all series of it's kind is the factor of the "Everyman". When GNCC was conceived it was not only for the world premier riders, but also for the common woods rider who might on any given race day rise to the top and be one of the best of the best. The ultimate goal was to…
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In the wide wild world of "www dot" there is a new group of off road racing enthusiast that pour the soul of their talents out for the rest of us to enjoy. The boys at OffRoadJunkies.com have given a whole new perspective of the racing world and more importantly the racers themselves. While gallivanting up and down…
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A few months ago we visited with a young lady who had just won three amazing races in a row in the ultra-competitive GNCC Women's ATV class. A virtual nobody that never let all the hype, history and expectations of other riders detour her hopes of becoming a champion. Let us re-visit the now GNCC Morning Over All and…
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There are many roads to GNCC greatness. Since the addition of the ATV Youth racing to the series only a handful of years ago ATV racing has seen an influx of up and comers that have only began to make their marks in the GNCC racing history books. The next one up is the 2010 Youth ATV Over All Champion Levi Coen.…
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It takes a certain breed of person to go and beat yourself up for three hours racing on a GNCC course one week then sky 80 foot doubles on a motocross track the next. There are few that like to try it, but there are even fewer who are really good at both. Lenoir North Carolina's and the 2010 GNCC Racing 200A Class 2nd…
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