Quick Fill #1: This Week in GNCCJanuary 7, 2021Welcome to Quick Fill. And welcome to a jam-packed first edition of Quick Fill in 2021! This year actually marks season number SIXTEEN of Quick Fill. That’s right, its now been 15 years since the first edition of Quick Fill graced the GNCC website back in 2006 and as it enters it’s 16th season I really hope to keep this thing informative but also want to make it fun to read at the same time. Last year I mentioned that I had dug through a bunch of old editions of Quick Fill dating back to when it first started and Jason Weigandt really made those old Quick Fill entries entertaining.
Lifestate Ambulance 2021 Yamaha YZ250F Monster Edition RaffleJanuary 6, 20211,000 tickets at $20.00 each. Ticket will be hand-drawn live on our Facebook page once all 1,000 tickets are sold.
Tuesday Toolbox: Mike GrizzleJanuary 5, 2021Dahlonega, Georgia’s Mike Grizzle has been a pretty well known name among racers in the southeast for many years. The, dare we say, ‘grizzled’ veteran has been around the block with a long history racing GNCC, National Enduro, SETRA and a many other local level events. Working his way up through A class ranks, to a local level pro, and now into 50+ age classes, Grizzle is no stranger to finding success at the front of the pack. This year he made more GNCC appearances that he has in quite a few years, and it paid off with the Masters A championship. We caught up with Grizz himself to talk about his season, and much more.
Nominees for 2020 AMA Racing and Organizer Awards ReleasedJanuary 5, 2021Voting ends at midnight on Jan. 8. - The American Motorcyclist Association has announced the nominees for the 2020 AMA Racing and Organizer Awards, which recognize individuals and organizations that excelled in AMA-sanctioned competition and recreational activity during the past 12 months.
Competition Bulletin 2021-2: 2021 GNCC Supplemental Rules, National Classes and Start Row Orders FinalJanuary 4, 20212021 GNCC Supplemental Rules, National Classes and Start Row Orders Final
Kawasaki Team Green™ Announces Off-Road Racing Teams and Riders for 2021 Racing SeasonJanuary 4, 2021 Kawasaki Team Green™ is pleased to announce its professional off-road racing efforts for the 2021 season with the return of the Babbitt's Online/Monster Energy®/Kawasaki Team Green™ race team in East coast competition and the Chaparral Motorsports/Precision Concepts/Kawasaki Team Green™ race team in West coast championships.
Dirt Bike Magazine - Top Off-Road Racers January 2021January 4, 2021No one saw this coming. The year 2020 will live in infamy for so many reasons. Oddly enough, through pandemic, politics and pestilence, off-road racing in America not only survived but had some great moments. Most of the racing venues in the U.S. somehow completed their competition schedules, even though none of them went as originally planned.
Cycle News - Kailub Russell InterviewJanuary 4, 2021After an amazingly successful career racing off-road, 30-year-old Kailub Russell will close out his magnificent 10-year run in GNCC as a champion—an eight-time champion, at that. However, he isn’t finished racing altogether, not just yet.
Tuesday Toolbox: Blaceton MooreDecember 29, 2020Sixteen-year-old Blaceton Moore just won his first National Championship, in the 4-Stroke B Lites class. He has pursued the GNCC series for several years, with the goal of eventually becoming a pro rider. Next season he will move up to the A Lites class.
Tuesday Toolbox: Austin AbneyDecember 22, 2020Twenty-two-year-old Austin Abney, from Veedersburg, Indiana, is the 2020 ATV XC2 Pro-Am National Champion! One of the most dominant ATV riders Indiana has ever seen, Abney won a record 32 out of 34 local races he contested in the 2019 season. He planned on doing the same in 2020, but on a whim decided to step back up to the National level. He plans to pursue the GNCC series again next season but racing in the XC1 Pro class.
Grand National Cross Country Series Announces 2021 ScheduleDecember 22, 2020Racer Productions, producer of the Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) Series presented by Specialized, an AMA National Championship, is pleased to announce the series schedule for the upcoming 2021 season.
RacerX: New York Times Features GNCC Racing Via Photo EssayDecember 21, 2020The Sunday New York Times features an excellent photo essay by photographer Rebecca Soderholm of the AMA Grand National Cross Country Series, as well as the New York Off-Road Association circuit.