UNADILLA GNCC This Weekend!!!!!!

By Jason Weigandt
Unadilla Valley Sports Center may be the most storied motocross facility in America – if not the world. The Robinson family has been running races there since 1968, and they’ve all been big ones, like Trans-AMA events, the United States Grand Prix and the Motocross des Nations. And all of those events have made the track a legend. The big hills, black dirt, natural jumps like Gravity Cavity, the Skyshot and the Wall, it’s all a part of American motocross lore.But now Unadilla is about to be a part of more history. Next weekend, the Suzuki Grand National Cross Country Series marches into Unadilla Valley Sports Center. It’s the first off-road race of its kind at the ‘Dilla, and the course will pair the original Unadilla pro motocross track, as well as the U2 amateur course, with some hardcore woods trails.When it’s over next weekend, it may turn out to be the ultimate GNCC event. For more info, we turned to Greg Robinson, who runs the facility with the help of his family.

Greg, This is a real opportunity. People are going to get to ride on the real Unadilla pro track, as well as the amateur track.
Yes. Absolutely.

Wow! So what kind of terrain will the woods have? The motocross tracks are well-known, but what else is there?
There’s a lot of neat, open hard woods, and then it goes into some swamps and brush. There should be a rail road track section, too. Jeff Russell and I were talking about it. There’s an old railroad that hasn’t been used since the early 1900’s, so they’re well grown over. That should be neat. It goes right along the river that runs along our property. So, I expect some real tight woods racing. There’s a lot of woods. We’re looking at 6 – 8 miles of woods as well as our motocross track. We haven’t laid the track out yet, it just depends on what kind of mileage we can get. But the woods, they will be great, lots of tight trees and hills and swamps.

This sounds like fun, then. People in this area have been dying to race a GNCC, the GNCC regulars have been dying to get on that track, and then it sounds like the rest of the place, the woods and all, should be good.
This isn’t a motocross track where we threw in some woods. This is a woods race with the motocross tracks, but they’re big tracks. You know what the terrain is like on the motocross track, well, the woods should have some really tough terrain, like big hills and stuff like that. I think we’re going to do well. We have some big clubs here. The two local clubs here have well over 600 members, and they feel like they’re going to have a pretty big turnout, and if we have that with your regulars, well, we might have to hold a three-day event!