The story that’s been 50 years in the making and the off-road motocross community has been waiting for; BLACKWATER: 50 Years of GNCC Racing.

After seeing On Any Sunday film back in 1971, school-teacher and musician, Dave “Big Dave” Coombs convinced his family in Morgantown, WV to start promoting Off-Road racing events like Dave had seen in the film with the Elsinore Grand Prix that Malcolm Smith and Steve McQueen rode in and were featured in. One of those events was a 100-mile event in Davis, WV called the “Blackwater 100”, which was dubbed “America’s Toughest Race”. The birth (and infamy) of the Blackwater 100 would lead to the creation of a national series that is now known as the Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) series and now in 2025 GNCC Racing will celebrate its 50th anniversary season.

The film will follow the 2025 GNCC Racing season with both bikes and ATV storylines while reaching back into the memory banks of dozens of champions, journalists, mechanics, organizers and fans who will be interviewed for the film about major moments in GNCC’s 50 year history beginning with the Blackwater 100.

This past weekend, past and current GNCC and Blackwater champions were interviewed in Amherst, OH and at the GNCC banquet in Sandusky, OH talking about racing the Blackwater 100 all the way up to the current 2024 season and outlooks for 2025. The stories are inspiring, funny, sad and dramatic, mixing perfectly with the new racing action coming in 2025. Included were Johnny Girroir, Brycen Neal, Traci Pickens, Walker Fowler, Craig Delong, Stu Baylor, Mark Hyde, Mike Lafferty, Kevin Lavoie, Larry Maiers, Jack and John Penton.

MX Sports and the Coombs family tapped motorcycle documentary filmmaker, Todd Huffman and his Pipeline Digital Media (PDM), whose past work includes the award-winning feature film PENTON: The John Penton Story and acclaimed The Motocross Files TV series. He has brought on Kevin Ward as Director of Photography whose past work includes Dust to Glory and Dust 2 Glory. PDM will be shooting with their crew throughout the 2025 GNCC season with the film being released in theaters and then streaming in 2026.