Unadilla Tid-Bits

*Here are some tid-bits about this past weekend race at Unadilla from Jason Weigandts Quick-Fill #37 which can be found on GNCC Homepage (www.gnccracing.com)

Once again the conditions were not that bad for the ATV races, but man were they bad for the bikes on Sunday. It rained really, really hard Saturday night and then unleashed again during the morning race. I experienced this first hand since I decided to race this one myself. I’ve been coming to Unadilla since I was really young but I’ve never ridden the track, and I was determined to do it this time. And it was muddy, but I did my one torturous lap. I was relieved only when two-time GNCC Champion Scott Plessinger won the morning race and told me it was one of the toughest GNCCs he’s done. Scott is one of the best mud riders of all time. So it must have been hard!
The invasion of the motocrossers at Unadilla was dampened a bit by the rain. Broc Hepler, John Dowd and Bobby Kiniry are all great mud riders for motocrossers, but it’s a different story when it’s three hours over a long track with several hundred other riders out there with you, and not all of them are pros. At a motocross national, they can work on the track after 30 minutes. Here, the ruts that started at 8 a.m. in our Youth bike race were there all day. So all three learned quite a bit. Kiniry was all smiles with his ride and told me he had a lot of fun.
Hepler said it was tough, but he’s a tough kid and he wasn’t scared off. He wouldn’t rule out racing one again in the future. From what I saw of the track on Friday before it was muddy, Broc could have been right in the hunt for the win had it not rained. You know he can just fly in the rough open sections, and there were plenty of those.
Dowd didn’t have as much fun. He says the Wisp, believe it or not, was much more fun that this. Still, we’ve been hearing lately that Dowd has some offers to race the GNCCs next year. After this one, he still has to think about if he really wants to do it or not. I tried to make John feel better and tell him most of the races aren’t muddy or rutted, but who are we kidding?