GNCC Racing: How’s it going today?

Westley Wolfe: Good, I just finished eating some dinner after a long day of work. We were putting flooring on a deck.

So what is a typical week day like for you?

A typical weekday at the moment could mean two things as I go to physical therapy first thing in the morning three days a week followed by going to the job site, or I just get up and go to work with the crew.

When do you find time for riding, training, all that kind of stuff?

Let’s see, I don’t really have time… I normally come home and find something to do around the house, but during the season I would ride one day a week mainly at the Nine2 compound. However, as in true training in the gym, never heard of it…. Ha-ha. I’m only ever in the gym when I’m down South, otherwise I just use my job as a workout.

So you’re telling me, you show up and race with little prep?!

Never even heard of prep. I just wing it. I will be honest though I have to give a major shoutout to my local mechanic, Buck, for making sure my ATVs were ready for me at each round of racing.

Tell us a little bit about how your 2021 season went.

My 2021 season was busy as always, no surprise really. On the GNCC side it went pretty much the same in that I was in the normal 10^th to 8th place finishing positions, just having fun with it as that was my goal this year. But with ATVMX and the deal I had, I decided to push hard for that series. I podiumed at the first round in Daytona, and again at round five in Illinois. But a gnarly crash at Loretta’s would end my season early.

That was a pretty brutal crash at Loretta Lynn’s, how’s the healing process going?

Healing is very slow, I’m very weak at the moment and have lack of motion. I’m very thankful for the doctors and tech at the hospital, which were able to reconstruct my radial head on my elbow after it was broken in 8 pieces. At this time, I’m in physical therapy two days a week now, was three but I hope to go down to one as I just received a brace to help with motion. 

What kind of plans do you have in store for 2022?

Plans for next year are to just run a handful of GNCC’s more than likely going to be the tracks I like or the close ones, as I am just being spread too thin to run both series. That being said I do plan to race a full ATVMX Series with a JH machine under me. 

You balance racing GNCC with the ATVMX series as well, what’s it like contesting two series?

You really want to know what it’s like? You really don’t have time to do anything at home, but yet I still do it and at the end of the day it doesn’t actually bother me I just do whatever needs done. You’ll also have a couple dark thirty days at work too (means you work a half hour past dark) you guys also don’t know but I run the local D6 MX races so after racing GNCC Saturday I would sometimes drive all night get home and have my truck packed and ready to go Sunday morning and go race again 

What kind of benefits are there to racing both series?

The race family and the fans are huge benefits with both series, which I am very thankful. Also, the amount of people I have met and who continue to help me out each weekend.

Do you feel that racing GNCC benefits you more in the ATVMX series, or does ATVMX benefit you more in GNCC?

They both help each other as ATVMX helps with the sprinting and technique, but the GNCC series helps with that 20 minute moto making it feel like 5 minutes.