Rausch Creek This Weekend

[Meat]

Anyone racing or going to the Rausch Creek Gncc this upcoming Saturday ??

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figures....I'll be at a wedding

[BenBB]

Abyss, you mean a "funeral with better music?"

 

Meat, give us the report if you go!!

[SHEE00MAN]

Somebody i sponsor will be racing up there in the four stroke open C class. Hell be on a yellow and red 440ex with duncan graphics. If youre racing good luck!

[Meat]

Quick report on the race, Bill Ballance took 1st place, Matt Smiley came in 2nd and James Wahl took 3rd. Wahl's first time on the podium. Chris Borich blew his engine and had to get towed back. Local favorite Traci Cecco snapped a chain and didnt have a good race. The weather was hot and humid and the track was dry and dusty, very little mud, we did see alot of rocks tho. My cousin raced in the Utility Modified class and came in 3rd. I got a ton of pictures i'll post soon.

Edited May 16, 2004 by Meat

[Meat]

Here's the Rausch Creek GNCC pictures.......

 

2004 Rausch Creek GNCC

Edited May 25, 2004 by Meat

[ledofthezep]

Right on MEAT! You got better coverage than half the sites supporting the GNCC's.

[Meat]

thanks led. Everyone should go see a Pro race, whether its MX or XC you'll get hooked. Iv been bitten by the racing bug, I was planning to race the RC GNCC but my latest wiring problems happened the weekend before the race and I couldnt get it sorted out before the race. yea Im pissed about the wiring. Glad to hear you enjoyed the pictures, we stood right at the corner of the first turn and the racers were so close I could lean over the banners and hit the racers with my hand. Chad DuVall wrecked right in front of us, got tangled up with that Honda and both quads were cartwheeling.... 10 feet in front of me. I couldnt get a picture fast enough, but I got a few pics after their wreck. DuVall was in dead last place and raced hard the whole race, he finished 6th.... which is crazy cause he lost so much time because of the wreck. Turns out he got into another wreck near the end of the race, ending up breaking his collerbone in three places and he wont be racing the next GNCC. Got his autograph, in fact I got the top five GNCC racers autographs. Everyone's gotta check out a GNCC race, its a blast. I'd love to take a road trip next weekend to Virginia's GNCC.

[BenBB]

Awesome coverage Meat! "Does this bumper look a little tweaked?" had me rollin'! Got me a new wallpaper too...

[00BANSHEE]

Nice work Meat. I wish I didn't live so far away from where the big boys race. I would love to see the pros run.

[ledofthezep]

Heck yeah meat, it's just too bad there isn't much GNCC'n going on around my neck of the woods. But there is some local MX, nothing pro though that I do plan on getting into asap. I heard it was a hell of a day for a number of the pro's...I keep track of atvscene.com for the insite...it figures Duvall would've been punked by a damn honda... I read that he flipped again later in the race on a rocky section too.? I also read that Traci Cecco had a rough day following her & Angela Moore's impressive victory the week before...broke a chain or something I believe, and Borich with the hosed motor-that sucks. But Ballance sure had a good race, finished a couple minutes before Smiley who seems to be having a pretty good season. It will be interesting to see what goes on at Petersburg...

 

l8r,

Led Zeppelin

Edited May 21, 2004 by ledofthezep

[Meat]

Duvall wrecked twice at Rausch Creek, the first one is the one I witnessed heading into the first turn, and the second wreck was near the end of the race, the second wreck he broke his collerbone in 4 places, he wont be racing the next gncc. He did finish the race with that broken collerbone, got back on the quad and finished the race. When he got the finish line, they had an ambulance there and took him away.

 

Borich is having one hellava bad season, I dont think he made the podium once this year. The Sparta Kentucky mud race, his YFZ had electrical problems, it fried his battery or something. He finished 193rd overall. And at Rausch Creek he was racing great until his motor blew near the end of the first lap. He had oil all over the quad, it was all over his swingarm and axle, whatta mess. I'll have to get the details on what happened. Rausch Creek is Borich and Cecco's home track and they both had bad races this year..... just like last years race. Jinxed I guess.

 

Smiley led the whole race untill the last lap. We were in the woods walking and you can hear the Pro racers coming compared to the amatuers, the amatures are just cruzin' along and the exhaust note is just drone'ing and constant, when the Pro's start getting close that you can hear em, you know right away to get off the track cause someone is haulin' ass. The Pro's are on the gas for the entire two hour race. I don't know how that can race at that level for such a long period of time, they have to be in top physical shape. Smiley would be the first Pro that would come through..... and Ballance was a few seconds behind him. Second lap, same thing... smiley leading and then Ballance following. I guess we missed the third lap, but on the last lap we could hear the Pro's coming... and this time Ballance had the lead. Smiley just can not win the overall. He didnt win it at all last season and hasnt won it yet this year either. Lots of second places tho, but he just cant beat Bill Ballance. Bill Ballance just might be the best stv GNCC racer. Barry Hawk had 8 championships in the 90's.... and he is the king.... but.... he really did have the competition that Ballance has now, gncc racing was alot smaller back in the 90's, its huge now. Id guess there were 250 racers in the morning race and another 200 more racers in the afternoon race.

 

Rausch Creek is also Matt Smiley's home track, Smiley only lives 30 miles away from me. Rausch Creek is only 15 miles away from where I live. Traci and Rick Cecco are from Shamokin\my hometown and Chris Borich lives 15 miles away from me. Iv never rode at Rausch Creek

Edited May 22, 2004 by Meat