2021 GNCC Live Round 2 - Wild Boar ATVs

[Music] all many hmm so [Music] do [Music] so hometown crowd begins to cheer the final turn grant baylor takes the big buck gncc did you see stu baylor running through the finals brother absolutely unbelievable congratulations to that young man to that new team to that manufacturer to everybody involved you see the girlfriend giving them a hug that is an emotional grant i've got goosebumps right now i've been ready all day there you go make some noise cheers [Music] big congratulations again to grant baylor you had nowhere to run nowhere to hide thanks for making me apart [Music] here [Music] [Music] [Music] him [Music] [Music] are you ready to go gncc racing out front your top three this is going to be a fun one to watch i'm telling you right now keep your eyes on these 4x4 pro guys as the season progresses we've seen some uh some previews some glimpses into what battle could be between cody collier and landon wolfe and cody collier today comes out and absolutely makes a statement with a a convincing win ends up taking it by 53 and a half seconds baby there you go popping bottles here that's a gncc pizza [Music] been cooped up all winter long it's been rainy all week long it's been cold it's beautiful out today all balls hog camps hole shot award up for grabs and that was going to belong to wesley wolfe at 7 41 and off his quad in turn two the number two of bryson neal [Music] [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] so final couple turns bryson neal into the final turn checkers fly and bryce and neal takes round number one win here's the vp fuels big buck gncc lucky congratulations to bryce and neal taking the win to start the 2021 season [Music] for the last six seasons we've seen walker fowler capture the national championship at the gncc but in the off season it was hard to ignore the talks surrounding bryce and neal was the hype real well after round number one bryson neal takes the checkered flag and the win at big buck gncc can he repeat will walker fowler return center of the box in the sands of florida gncc on razor tv coming up next are you ready to go so good afternoon and welcome to round number two of the grand national cross country racing series presented by specialized in ama national championship we're here in the sands of florida palatka florida for the moose racing wild boar gncc well talk about setting the bar high round number one we saw a little bit of everything the highly anticipated battle of walker fowler and bryce and neal as they both went down in the second turn of round number one at big buck they had their work cut out for him had to work their way to the front of the pack where bryson neal took the win and the reverse plate heading into today can he repeat that performance in round one here today will walker fowler find himself center a box after battling the sands and palmettos of florida another big name out there finally looking like he's getting it dialed hunter hart finishing third in round number one it's now the time for hunter hart to become a podium regular like we've expected to see out of him the last couple of seasons and then of course the xc2 wyatt wilkin setting the bar high in round number one looking to repeat here today for ben kovalevsky finishing second and max lindquist finishing third look to take that top spot well the stage is set who's going to do it here in the sands of florida before we get to it let's take it down to jared bolton for the yamaha racing track description thanks guys welcome back to sunny florida yeah i don't know i don't like that thanks guys once again gncc returns to the sunshine state for the wild boar gncc the thing about florida is when you come down here you're going to be dealing with sand and sand gets really really rough that's what weekend wears on and the other thing about florida is you're going to have a little bit of mud as well however even with some rains leading up to this event this place has actually been pretty dry but not overly dry which puts a unique spin on it the sand is actually packed in a little tighter than it has been in the past which actually won't let things get quite as rough as it has been before but of course you still got some of the mud holes to contend with out here in the field as well pick your way around those the right way and you won't have any trouble as long as you follow the arrows if you try to get too far off the course some of those water holes are probably i'd say about that deep so you got to be really smart when you get out there the rest of the course uh you know it's good uh good flowy trail here some tight spots some really really fast stuff beautiful beautiful facility here at wild boar make for some great racing back to you guys well thanks jared appreciate that looks like it's going to be a gnarly track out there today for the riders we're going to take a quick break hear a word from our sponsors and when we come back we'll be down on the starting line with rodney tomlin 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the whole shot award from weinstein all balls and hot camps bringing us an extra 250 for our pro rider that crosses this strike going into the second turn first as all eyes now down on ricky towery as he gets set to inform these riders one minute one minute before the start of today's wild boar gncc so last few moments of rituals underway here at the home waller as ricky towery makes his way out into that first turn region and he will begin his conductor duties if you will to orchestrate our starts of gncc racing shut them down guys shut them down shut them down shut them down we are now less than 30 seconds away from going gncc racing and i got to ask you race fans are you ready to go gncc racing that's pretty good florida but we're kicking off bike week so let's do a little better than that let's try it one more time are you ready to go ghcc racing seconds and row number one the xz1 pro will be off and rolling at the moose racing wild boar gncc well we got a false start i don't know that may have been bryce and neal if that's the case he's going to be back a little the early league going to the young one under heart aboard the number seven of new york on the hunter heart racing max's flyback machine so who will be a penalty enforcer number two bryce and neal going to be held up 15 seconds i believe at the finish line as we go to the xc2 pro-am class nick davis and trey seifert charles dunn 10 seconds grace sadella christian meyer bryce barnett also brandon owens kenny schick nick royalty albert jadish ben kowalewski t.j barrett white wilkin dillon wall raven ronnie rush and tanda walker 228 so as we go to our next start it's a senior 840 plus class ricky towery shuts them down we got uh looks like eight riders in this one ready to roll in seconds brian axlein shane worth angel barrios also mike weiss nick bruno chris conklin chris barry and brian shaw the 8 28 brian's from harrisville pennsylvania grabbing the early lead college a 16-21 coming up next 10 seconds davis brinson nathan dearborn dalton keys trey redmond ethan meyer evan baird tyler valentine dominic stevens keaton henderson westworth's tyler colter alex fineman chase allison gavin jenkins cody forrester courtney van de leiner kate and ryan cameron 80 steve harrell and james glotta college hay rounding the first turn and it's going to be the 123 of dalton keys from hold indiana grabbing the early lead in this one as we go to the junior a 22 plus class ricky towering getting set to orchestrate this next start with caleb edwards brody living good chris league allen believes jeremy ladon seconds cody benton mick rice alex alioff brad indole mitchell etterbloot brendan young jay shadron bryson mulligan brady myers joseph ponte colton kendall devin manicotti dustin west cameron queen and zach wright rounding the first turn now as they sort it out before 12 of jake dandruff about pleasant pennsylvania to be in our business access banks ride there's a bad 80 30 class coming up next jeff pickens big papa p brad whitehead also darkness caesar luke super kirby stillsby [Applause] zachary phillips michael lancaster and aj koontz big papa p jeff pickens in and out of that first turn let's see if he can hang on to no going to be the 29th brad whitehead brad whitehead steals the early lead and the pole shot from singing spring pennsylvania and ecs honda jmr and max's backed machine to the senior b 40 plus class in 10 seconds scott wilhelm steve barber jason limly ivo bahalik mr butler bobby mcconnelly dave ashby wesley smith robert bennett robert stevens richie mccauley and rick marino 179 jason lively from mount morris pennsylvania above high point the mason dixon's encc as we roll into the college b 16 to 21 year olds jason fleming alex nelson paxton dickerson said blake grant miller kate alexo kai arba gas also damon grace hop bryson harper tyler davis 10 seconds lane fell to riley saleh cooper stewart john williams ian burns blake vale also jonathan figley hunter godzill chance hickey michael worth and mason howard oh get her all sorted out there wow look at that what a laura first turn for the 50 comes out jason with about five feet and is able to steal the early lead out of street maryland on board that honda b 22 plus class coming up next as ricky tyler he readies our writers and lets them know 10 seconds corey pancake sean neuhaus cody bowles javier colin robbie rosenberger stephen handham also shane mcmillan matt noe ethan heilberg dalton lee and nicholas fellaini 425 ethan helbig ethan helbig from freedom pennsylvania taking the early lead as we go to the vet b 30 plus class coming up next in a matter of ricky towery tells these writers it's only going to be 10 seconds david kite nathan tickle ryan simmons also tim white keith stewart michael rodriguez ben dunlap benjamin jones nick miller david nicely mike riser nicholas kasmarsky ryan leckmore lecrony kenneth rich and also adam garrick [Music] 424 nick miller from bristolville ohio on a b r motorsports moto zilla gbc bag machine and that's your final start off and rolling and that is it for this afternoon as we have nearly a record-breaking turnout i think for our atv riders here this weekend with our micros our youth and our amateur riders and now these uh afternoon riders with the pro pro am and of course amb riders a big big weekend as we kick off bike week 20 21 glad to have you folks here on racertv.com stick around mikey waynes will be with you here in just a few moments to give you the call by and play by play and we'll be up there as well gncc racing continues right after this [Music] rocky mountain atv mc retailer distributor manufacturer product developer parts tester this is what we do but who we are is something much simpler we're riders like you 100 employee owned and operated a company built by riders entirely for riders rocky mountain atv mc get ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Applause] wow born 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you're just tuning in with us uh bryce and neal off the start from what we heard unofficially uh had a jump on the start false start will be held up at the finish line i believe it will be a 15 second penalty for him at the end of lap one so keep that on the back burner and uh speaking of those starts i think we're going to take a look at a replay for our xc1 and xc2 uh starts here if you're just tuning in with us the specialized rapid replay ricky towery the waving in the flag off and rolling here in florida jockeying for position was the xc1 and there he is the number seven look over the shoulder hunter hearts probably thinking i can't believe i just got that i got to stay right here as long as i can and hold off that guy right there walker fowler going to be a tough task to do for two hours hunter coming off the third place finish a couple weeks ago and then the xc 2 class jockeying for position try that again i don't know if that was just my tv it's on loop there we go the start of the xc2 there we go uh big congratulations xc2 whole shot award winner i believe it was nick davidson uh snagging the whole shot out of the xc2 class and getting a little wide right there but uh certainly a good start for him off and rolling and coming out of that xc2 a couple weeks ago in round number one it was wyatt wilkin grabbing the win uh ben kavaleski finishing second matt lindquist finishing third just a couple weeks ago so xc2 another one we'll keep our eye on but again 2021 without a doubt a highly anticipated season and before we dive into it i believe we're going to look a there we go the yamaha racing track map of course uh what is highlighted in depending on how your screen looks probably orange it's orange on my screen or yellow that's i believe our 1pm bike only section for tomorrow so as you look at the rest of the track palakka florida some love it some hate it we enjoy it i think everybody's enjoyed it so far uh what can you guys expect well you heard jared bolton talking about it obviously the sand it's a different kind of sand than anything we see the rest of the year like at camp coker for example uh but uh it seems like there's no bottom in this place and when you get there then you got to deal with the palmetto roots uh it's gnarly to say the least had some pretty uh pretty crazy battles this morning a lot of spots looks like there's a little water maybe you want to risk it move up a position maybe you fall in a hole like it's uh there's just a lot of gambling out there so it's definitely a fun one you hear a lot of the riders talking about man this is a race to survival i want to go out there and uh survive and a guy who did well here last year taking the win here last year actually was walker fowler he's coming off the second place finish and before today's race we actually had a chance to catch up with walker fowler and get his insights after round number one yeah so we're down here in palatka florida at the wild boar gncc uh we've had six rounds here in the past and i've won all six of them so hopefully 2021 will be our seventh win uh even up the points hopefully because you know bryson if he's not winning he's probably gonna be number two so our goal out here is uh try to just like i said break even get this points back to zero and uh yeah just start trying to build some momentum so i've won the first round since 2000 i believe 15. um i've won obviously every year since then so last race was a kind of new territory for me but it's kind of given me the underdog drive again i have i've always kind of been on top so it's not new territory for me but it's uh unfamiliar so i kind of you know i spent a week or two or obviously two weeks now and and kind of just got my mind right got the got the bike feeling a little better got some training uh up up my training and uh i'm hungry i'm definitely i'm hungry i'm ready and uh you know i've coming into round one there was a lot of uncertainties whether you know the injuries were going to be a major setback or whether you know concussion-wise i was where i needed to be usually we get to do a lot of riding and training i did get the ride a lot but we didn't really get to do any races so i kind of was lining up rusty and blind and that showed struggled for a little bit but uh yeah you know at the end at the last race i felt really good put in a good charge and got that minute lead down to five seconds so hopefully get a good start today and go out there and do what i do get a good start that's what i took away from that also walker fowler talking about being an underdog now when was the last time it's had to have been more than six years uh that we have talked about walker fowler in his own words underdog so uh certainly it was hard to ignore the anticipation heading into this season uh the the rising of bryce and neal was his six championships hit for walker fowler is it kills time well after round one we're just continuing those talks bryce and neal obviously your points leader heading into this weekend um he had a fast start bryce and neal and matter of fact a little too fast of a start if you heard us talking earlier he will be from what we understand that's unofficial uh but we believe he'll be held up at the finish line uh for a 15 second penalty now in a in a that is official okay so producer uh adam gordon just chimed in and said that is official he will be held up it'll be a 15 second penalty assess so what that means when uh bryce and neal checks into the finish line we'll have one of our officials down there they've got the stop watch turn it on once in 15 seconds is up he can go out there and rip and roll but if we learned anything from around one yes a good start's important we just heard walker feller talking about it uh but that doesn't make her break the race necessarily walker and bryson both uh went down early i think it was turn two a couple weeks ago they went down ended up working their way up to the front bryson obviously took that win and walker finished second and another guy we've talked a little bit about is hunter hart he comes into this season we've kind of looked to see hunter hart move into being a podium regular contender uh and it's just not really come to fruition he does have a win in the xc1 at iron man a few years ago but this seems to be the year maybe that we're going to be talking about hunter hart a lot more he finished third a couple weeks ago at the big buck gncc he took the whole shot in the xc1 here today you saw him with a look over the shoulder at walker fowler i don't know what he's thinking is he thinking i can't believe i'm out in front of these guys right now i got to hang on to this uh is he thinking who knows we'll find out after the race but bottom line is uh hunter hart off to a fantastic start the number seven machine can he hang on to it though it's a long two hours and being out in front that's not something for the xc1 class that hunter hart has had a lot of experience doing so he can't key off of anybody he can't watch the lines walker has taken or bryson is taking it's all on him right now so look to see maybe walker fowler move up into that number one spot but maybe maybe hunter hart makes a liar out of us and he just leads his thing start to finish we'll see it's a long race but uh certainly going to be a good one get a good look right at some of the conditions that these riders uh have to deal with and uh if you've seen some of the photographs from this morning if anybody's able to post on social media it's like a a cellular service ghost town out here but but a few folks do i'm not one of those uh but uh ken hill showed me a few shots um of some guys that uh really really dealing with some stuff and uh rodney tomlin making his way back into the box here rodney you want this one i can i can flip-flop with him oh man they're warm they're nice and warm big boy they're little i got you a little big head big boy yeah i know so leaders on screen right there and it looks like walker fowler has made the pass around hunter hart which rodney that's what i was just talking about for a guy like hunter you know not taking anything away from him but that's a lot of pressure for hunter hart to lead from the start and go through lap number one which i believe they're getting into the finish line here so they'll clock in but now hunter if i'm hunter i still feel good right now walker fowler's in my sights as they head back into the pines here in florida and uh you hope you can just throw a lasso on them and hang with them bryce and neal checking in at the number three spot one thing to point out i don't know if you noticed there was a false start on the start line so they will hold him up i believe 15 cents right there you can see him he turned his he turned his bike off i mean it wasn't as if he was trying i don't know what happened it was almost as soon as the 10 second call had completed i said 10 seconds and he fired up his machine and you could and it just kept running and he kept you and he just and he finally got it turned off and he was one of the last i mean he was laid off the line too so to see him up the third place i'm not sure how many positions he may have lost there probably back to about 10th place i believe but merrick got by richardson got by uh jerry mcclure with six will put him up in the fifth now chris borch up in the sixth from seventh adam mcgill devin feehan and john glotta i believe all getting by uh be hand and glotta may not have gotten by so we might see bryson only back to an eighth place position one thing that i want to point out mikey look how dark the soils are yeah these riders are racing this year uh and uh that indicates a lot of moisture in this sand here at hogwarts uh something that we haven't really seen a lot of the last couple of years this is a mudbog facility and we've been fortunate enough the last few races that we've been here that there hasn't been a whole lot of water but we noticed that there are more water in the ditches uh the uh the little uh puddles are and and wallers i guess you could say uh they've got water and we've got mud on the course a little more so than what we've had in the last recent years but wow uh yeah drone coverage right now wesley uh we got a new drone pilot this week he's first time doing gncc so he's doing an amazing job he's doing a heck of a job he's a commercial airline pilot from waterloo he's qualified then but wow great even with the pine needles on the trees we're still able to see a lot of the uh the racing action below on our yamaha racing uh live drone so uh glad to have that and uh glad to have wesley on board with us look at walker fowler that's what i was gonna say walker inching toward the top of the screen and no signs of hunter heart hunters got to turn it on right now uh walker obvious well we had a brief interview with him uh prior to you getting in here rodney but uh he talked about himself in his own words i kind of have an underdog feeling that's not something i've felt in the while so i think walker is here to play right now and and he's going to lay it all out there well i you know after round one uh there was a certain tone in his voice obviously very respectful of bryson neal's accomplishments and what he was able to do admitting that he got beat that day goodness wow but here's the thing i knew that just there's hunter hart right there we see him a few seconds behind but uh the one thing that i knew i could tell in in in in walker's voice there was a tone that was there that there was frustration there was um i can't let this happen again to have tone in his voice so people kept asking me what's going to happen man brass nails he's on the he's on the hammer he's going to be hard to beat and i said yeah guys i said you don't understand they walker is going to be a beast and i said here's the thing and this is my scenario and i'm not going to i say he's going if he gets the opportunity he is going to demolish the crowd i said if he can get out front and get a lead he's just going to he's just going to go as hard as he can and if anybody can catch up with him and hold with him it's going to be tough to do even as fast as bryce neil is you'd have to think from bryson neal's standpoint okay let walker go out here let walker make this statement i'll take the second place position we're still tied in points let's let the hammer down again in georgia in a week and you know so i mean right now bryce and neal to be in control this championship after the first round of racing he's got to really be thinking about this to maintain that kind of control and this this uh and be in the hunt for the for the title so he's gonna have to start thinking like that even if he can't keep the pace of walker today he can't ride over his head and push too many mistakes and make it a worse day than what it is if he yeah that that's exactly and it looks over pushing it look like hunter's starting to reel him in just a little bit and i think hunter uh in some of those tight sections and probably as he's going down pro row everybody's saying come on man you're right there he's right there but uh boy hats off to hunter heart how about the start for him a guy that over the last couple of years you know we've talked about uh hunter hart when is he going to turn it on when is hunter hart going to be that regular podium guy coming off that third place and now right on the i'm not going to say heels but he's right there with walker fowler uh hunter hart's got to feel really good right now and uh you got to feel good if you're a hunter heart fan no doubt and one thing to point out about hunter uh you know in and last week and when we were doing openings and studying things like that i mentioned there's no speed there oh and hunter gets a little hung up right there as did walker but you know the one thing that i i was uh pointing out it's make or break time basically right now for hunter hart this is the season that you know i expect to be his breakout season he's oh go oh and look at that walker didn't even try to stop it i think walker's like i'll let you lead through here buddy yeah you find the deep holes uh but regardless of what the case may be this is what hunter hearts needs and and to see something like this underway for hunter hart oh and look at this heart getting stuck in this so that's that was a good move by walker fowler see he was able to get through there traverse that a little easier but wow i mean these guys have gotta be second guess they cannot see the bottom they do right now how deep this water is it's black water it could be an inch deep it could be a foot it could be three feet they don't there goes walker yeah that that was a veteran move if i've ever seen one walker knew what they were coming into and so did hunter hunters thinking i don't want to go first walker's like well i'm not going first you go through there i want to see if you get stuck and then we'll race out here in the open section well as i was saying you know this and this is what and hunter put on a good performance at round number one taking that third place position i think he was even in the lead at one point during that race that memory serves me correct so hunter is uh if this is where hunter needs to be for 2021 and this might be the switch flipping for hunter that we've been waiting for since those youth and amateur ranks and coming up into the pro-am class because it was so dominant then uh now we're starting to see what the hunter heart is capable look at this battle back here for the third place position that's starting to shape up right now i believe that's richardson and merritt going at it right now cole richardson in the number three position now josh merritt moving up the fourth as they both got around bryce and neal after that uh a little bit of a uh uh petty's false start on the starting line yeah we're still i believe it's still walker okay right here i thought we dropped back but there is a good race going on if uh if we can find that one and that one's only probably about 10-15 seconds back of these guys but richardson uh mara jared mcclure well mcclure's a little off the pace back there but richardson and merritt really having a good one going cole richardson's a guy i think you got to have your eyes on today i think uh finished what sixth i believe in round number one um but we know cole and we know that he feels he is a championship contender as well he feels like he should be mentioned right there with walker and bryson and uh the results are certainly there not necessarily in round one so i look for uh for cole richardson to really be pushing for a podium finish here today well i'll tell you what you wonder about the intensity of the xc1 pro class on this first lap generally we see the xc2 deep into the top 10 at the end of lap one 14th place for your top xc2 pro am rider right now 447 halsted pennsylvania's ben kowalewski is your leader in that class in 14th place overall so that right there with the pa with the pace that we're seeing out of walker and hunter up front right now we can see that uh they are really really putting some uh some time on the track out there and making some fast fast lap times out there wow look at that sand you know i was talking with jerry bolton and i want you to take a look at this sand he said the last guy that he had to follow through off the uh of the thing you know they were going through and he's and he just and he just made this motion which is basically up and down rollers uh i guess it's really whooped out in some of the areas of the racetrack out there and bulldog didn't even have the breath or the energy to participate into course description just to let you know how taxing exhausting it is and how how much uh strength uh it takes out of man and machine to right these conditions and and we're talking about a guy that makes more laps in the gtc than anybody basically i know how they feel i know how it feels to walk on the beach and i get exhausted from that i'm sure it's the exact same thing exactly exactly exactly well walker fowler hunter bryson neal cole richardson josh merritt we're your top five as we said bryson neal the fall start got it started i think they held him up i think and i didn't hear the official word but normally that's a 15 second penalty because it's golf and you got it shut down and and uh so uh 58 but that's a lot whenever you take into consideration he was right behind those guys he was six seconds behind fowler and hart say the only uh pillar like it's that's now 21 and and you would say it's going to take a half second or a second longer to get started back up to speed so you're looking at 22 23 seconds that he was at the deficit from the first and second place rights whenever uh he left that tent after that penalty uh in the meantime he lost uh positions to cole richards and josh merrick jared mcclure was another 12 seconds back that would have been a close one so mcclure and neal actually getting back on the track about the same time if that was a 15-second penalty i believe it was uh carrie joe actually came in here to give us some confirmation on i think you're i think that's dead on the 15th second i believe if they get going i believe it's what 30 seconds yeah and so depending on i mean it can be more but generally 15 and 30 seconds is is what the penalties are there he is walker back on screen out in front yup and guess what all them i wonder i wonder what songs he thinks about whenever he's uh writing out there i mean there's got to be a lot going through this guy you know what here's what i'm thinking he's thinking i'm going to destroy these guys i need to go out there i need a statement race i gotta i gotta shut people up i gotta shut my own mind up it would be my guess right and and let's reflect back to about round eight i think it was last year maybe seven remember we were talking about walker was talking about that two-minute time period that he was wanting to best the rest of the fuel by and then one minute 59 seconds .615 i think it was that bryson came in just under the two minute mark on on walker and that's bryce and neal right there all right and that's was that richardson behind him right there is neil back up to the number three spot or was that mara that was behind him okay uh so uh anyway uh yeah so uh interesting i think the way the stories all break down the way i mean back stories the front of hillary's mcgill i like that green quad he's running out there and he i'd like he put kimco as his brand name out there i think he's really riding a honda yes but just mess with with the with me and different people he puts kimco out there so adam mcgill aboard the kimco he's getting those contingencies i guess there you go [Laughter] so uh rolling through this one let's take a look at that xc2 pro am class just a little bit we talked about kawaluski leading this one you know this is a we haven't really had a chance to talk a whole lot about xc2 in this 2021 season a lot of guys moving up one of the riders moving out uh and i think he's just going to be racing ama pro 8 or ama atv racing pro stock class is going to be noah mickelson um let's see uh who else do we have out of this one i'm trying to think there's a couple of guys that we we're not seeing in this one this year that we kind of expected to see but a lot of the guys graduated to the xc1 or a couple of the guys did including drew landers and of course to austin abney but it's it's kind of opened the field up in this xc2 pro-am class ben kawaluski a name that we rarely ever mentioned before now leading this one mikey he's got nearly a 10-second lead we're getting reports getting reports on the radio right now that hunter hart has regained the lead at the fmf powerpoint walker fowler now the last time we saw him on the yamaha live drone there man it looked like walker was starting to open that gap back up over so you have to wonder did he run into more trouble out there did he make a mistake or did hunter really find an extra gear out there that or did walker pull another veteran move on him and say no no you do this fmf powerpoint first i want to see how you uh you course this terrain and then i'll do what you don't do i mean can you imagine i mean rolling in that water section that those guys rolled in the black water over there what that would have been like i mean if you're out front and and you know your mind's got to go oh gosh what way am i going to go oh yeah especially if you didn't walk it especially if you don't know how many people have gone through it and wallowed it out since the last time you did walk through it i'm assuming that is a pro only section for those guys yeah so it looked like it was rather shallow for the most part but i expect that it's going to get deeper and tomorrow we'll be surprised to see some of those guys getting buried oh for sure i know just uh ken hill showed us a few photographs this morning from the pro 4x4 race and i can't remember the rider for the life of me but one of our pro 4x4 guys the machine was pretty much buried you can see just the top of the plastics and the handlebars that was it so there are some major major deep spots out there that um you you could very well possibly just end up becoming a part of the racetrack and i'll say this i mean i think the characteristics of this racetrack are different probably than any time that we've been here in the past i mean we've had moisture in the soil i don't recognize or remember anyway the days that we've we've had rain like on the days of and leaving into and and like the morning of and through the overnight hours but this this one we did so the the soil is just a little bit different as we watched this one as we said our xc2 pro-am uh kawaluski tanner walker wyatt wilkin kenny 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walker fowler um is trying to make a statement here after that first round that opening round lost to bryce and neal bryce neal fall started on the starting line was um uh held back uh about 15 seconds a 15 second penalty after the first lap so he lost a couple of positions two or three positions there uh as we're seeing on the start grid what you're what you're seeing on the results board right now the leaderboard uh that is a little different right now and it is going to change uh last report we had hunter hart had gotten around walker fowler at the fmf powerpoint we should be seeing our leaders on screen here pretty soon so we'll be able to get a better idea of what's going on but again looking at these soils how dark the sand is it's usually such a much lighter color sand the i feel like the only time i've seen terrain that looks like this at a gncc is probably at some point in the ever-changing mulch pit at john penton like i mean it just looks like one big john penton mulch pit out there well that goes to show you i mean this dirt right here there's a lot of sand and somebody was talking to me about it we were on the start and this is located in the start they said is the sand like this all over the property and i said no actually yeah there's there's a couple different variations of the sand you've got this loamy uh silty and i guess clay based black dirt sand that we've got here but there's also some areas of white sugar sand and things like that out in different areas of the racetrack uh and as you take a good example there yeah there's a prime example of the different kinds of stains now this is this sand's a little wetter obviously because this is where some of the wallers are where the four wheel drives and the utvs and side by sides and stuff uh do their mud runs and things of that nature but uh nonetheless i mean again you can see the difference color and you can see even side by side you've got a red white sand and then 50 feet away you've got a dark gray and black sand i mean it's really neat how this uh terrain changes here at hogwarts yeah it's uh it's definitely it seems like you talked to most of the guys and a lot of our riders and and maybe that's what's reflecting now i know hunter hart spends pretty much the entire offseason down here training as does not far from here as does yeah walker so maybe that's why those two guys not taking away anything away from but maybe that's what's proving so well for hunter hart right now um being up into that number two spot flirting with the lead off and on uh so we'll see if he can keep that going uh and then if correct me if i'm wrong i don't think bryson i know in years past at least last year he said man i stayed pretty much back home and i'm still untrained bryson spent a lot of time at home again this year i think he may have came down and raised a couple of one-off races or did maybe a weekend of training in south carolina or something like that but nothing uh to any dramatic effects of any uh stretch of the imagination uh so basically most if not all his training was done there in the sand pits and in the rock pits the gravel quarries if you will of galia county ohio located on the ohio river there and of course southeastern ohio i mean he's got plenty of places to choose from down there it's a really rural area so you know aside from the cold temperatures and maybe some of the wet conditions that he was faced with he still had a lot of great uh training opportunities and he took full advantage of it that's one of the arguments i hear from a lot of guys especially amateur level you know guys that are working eight to five they definitely don't have the opportunity to come down and train in it but even some of the pro guys they say well look we race in sand pretty much twice a year pilate is completely unique and different and then over in camp coker so i don't really feel i need to to train in sand all summer when we're only racing it really twice i'd rather train back home in more you know rocky terrain in the northeast things like that i think really what the idea behind the training in florida has um developed into obviously in years past it was the season opening round and people wanted to make that statement so they would train a little extra down in the sands of florida but really i i think a lot of it has to do with weather anymore i mean for sure you've got even the guys from the west coast california riders are starting to come to florida i mean especially southern florida you're not going to find any any better weather that's a that's a tropical that is water back out front there oh he's opening up the gap so uh yeah so we we got walker back out front hunter hart back in second so as i was saying you know they've got an opportunity to train and uh the sand yeah they may not rain right a lot of the sand but it's it's good endurance training and uh it it also uh you know it it just it keeps you on the bike and you can ride more than down here than you can up there so there are some advantage even though you may be chaining in the sand you only have one or two sand races a year there are some big advantages to being able to do it if you can definitely get more seat time and like you were talking about with jared that jared bolton was talking about sand's moving like crazy you get a lot more uh cardi cardiovascular training in it yeah uh training down here so uh walker fowler on screen right there trying to escape the screen and uh we saw hunter hart behind him in the number two spot we'll see if he can reel him back in here when they get into some of these tighter sections well you know talking with our drone pilot during the break there just a few moments ago mikey he was amazed uh this is his first ever gncc experience he says man i'm flying 45 miles an hour and i cannot keep up with these guys in the trees these guys are clipping along at a 45 to 50 mile an hour pace in these uh wider tree sections out there that is amazing that is crazy speed you gotta wonder how fast are they going out those open field sections yeah that where the speed's at i mean let alone in the trees but forget it that open field section which we saw i mean you could you could visually see it on screen walker was was escaping the drone site there in moments in the open field section and he's definitely escaping on her heart right now we'll see what hunter hart's got for him and uh boy how about the black sand it kind of carves out walker getting a little slowed up right there but it uh getting yeah look at the water holes too i mean i mean you can see and where a lot of the black sand is is where the moisture dirt is believe it or not and they're getting down in there and i heard them talking about the bigger they deep the more water is starting to come up they were talking about that during the micro race i think uh chuck might have been maybe it was you that mentioned it during the youth race this morning but uh yeah they're getting down in there and the water level's a little higher this year because we have a little had a little more moisture leading into this event so the water is starting to come up a little quicker and like in years past i don't think it has at least to this degree so they check in right there walker fowler still in first there's hunter hart on screen right behind him in the number two spot we'll get the timing and scoring on it see just what that gap is and then gotta think these guys are gonna be checking in here rodney for uh fuel stop we're approaching that one hour mark we're 52 and a half we'll be probably close to the 55-minute mark or 54-minute morning oh different line choices and hunter-hart about pays off wow all right checking in in third place nine and a half seconds back now in the third place position bryson neal there you go all right guys here i'm going to lay out a couple of things for you lap time 2852 for walker fowler 28.53 for hunter hart and with a 15 second penalty a 28.56 for bryce neal wow that's an impressive lap considering the 15 seconds right now you look at that right there walker fowler had a four second faster lap he's oh walker's four seconds faster no they held him up 15 seconds at the finish line take 15 seconds away from that lap time and tell me how fast is bryce and they'll go that's not so you got to thank pit stop by the end of uh by the end of lap number three here you got to think that we're going to have ourselves a three-way battle i think so and you know i may eat my words and i'm going to be proud to uh swallow them whole if that's the case look at that line choices there these guys that right there that goes to show you that they they've been out they know what to look for as far as this track and where to look for the extra lines it's amazing that some riders don't even see that right yeah and and basically if you're wondering oh it looked like they cut that turn no you got to understand there are arrows on the trees out there and you have a 25 foot area from either side of that arrow that you can work with so that's basically 50 feet wide of racetrack through there that you got to uh to work to get through those uh uh those certain areas and sometimes that 25 feet lies within uh cutting a corner a little bit which both riders took it right there so man walker the speed he's got in these open sections it's like he's got another gear out there no i mean it's funny how close it looks like that the hunter's gonna get with him and then all of a sudden as it looks like hunters latched on we see that gap start to open up back to that three or four second position now it's getting a little bit tighter as hunter is not relinquishing that gap nearly as much as what uh it was so this is going to get pretty exciting maybe hunter is finding his own extra gear out here yeah hunter hart kind of had the benefit of some lap traffic right there kind of held walker up for a second uh lapper did good job to get out of the way but uh held walker up just enough that uh by the time hunter got to him the lapper said oh okay here comes the fast guys i'm gonna move over here for a second yeah and that's the incentive for hunter as long as he can keep walker in his sights he's gonna be able to maintain a very uh fast pace and maybe close to the pace that walker is turning right now and that will help distance him keep the distance between he and bryce neil again they he was nine and a half seconds behind those guys uh if you're wondering who is behind bryce neal here's the way the breakdown is 20 seconds behind bryce neal cole richardson in fourth uh in the number five spot adam mcgill 49 seconds behind cole richardson what's that say about those top four riders right now if they've got a minute on the rest of the field fifth place on back that's nice and that is nuts it's they have to feel like the only time we've seen it is in the past few years that might be neal closing in on hunter hart right now that is walker fowler on screen that is hunter hart that is bryson neal well within striking distance now he is reeling in hunter hart for the number two position as we head through this forest section now and look at how close this is he is not much farther behind hunter as hunter is behind walker think about this think about what i talked about the 15 second deficit that is say 11 seconds faster than walker and he is closing up that gap a lot faster so he's going faster now than he did on lap two here on lap number three coming around for pit stops here in just a moment this is going to get interesting mikey it's going to be huge and i i got to think all three are going to stop for fuel we're what 57 minutes almost into this one can you can you risk going another lap and and jump out front if you're a guy like bryce hale well there you go walker's getting fuel i think that's the answer right there if the rest of teams see this they got to be making the same move all right go time for walker fowler he's in and out of the pits as he makes a quick splash and go a quick drink a goggle change and off and rolling i assume that uh hunter hart is also as well uh taking a pit stop as is bryce and neal hopefully we'll get a little better closer look on that that's uh walker fowler we're watching as you can see he is that gas stop was really quick for him and he is able to capitalize on that it appears and it's starting to put even more distance between himself and that second place ride of hunter heart not sure what's uh holding hunter up as far as making this gap maybe hunter went a little bit more uh you know maybe he was using more fuel so they went ahead and went a little longer extra gas stop on him but time will tell i guess we'll get the story in the post race interviews cole richardson making his exit right there i believe that was the number three machine that was exiting the pits maybe coal can move up a spot i'm gonna head down there rodney see if i can't find out the word uh what's going on in the pits well while they get things sorted out in the pits let's run down your top ten real quick in this xc1 class walker fowler leading at the finish line by 3.7 seconds looks like that gap has opened up quite a bit over hunter hart bryson neal another nine and a half seconds back and third looked like he had closed that gap up on hart for second cole richardson back and forth adam mcgill to fifth jerry mcclure six young glotta junior and seventh chris porch and eighth devin feehan in ninth josh merritt rounding out your top ten bryson has it now i was looking at that and that is bryson neal moving into the number two position as he has gotten around hunter hart i'm sure that pit stop a quick splash and dash really helped out quite a bit but look at these the ultimate or yeah different line choices hunter hart going the short route oh and he gets back around bryce and neal that might be something but bryce and neal right back around and look at that bryson splashing through that water most of the time guys are trying to ease their way through the water trying not to suck something up in you can see some steam coming out of the back of uh neil's machine we hope that that doesn't uh doesn't mean anything and then he sucks some water into that machine and he's gonna start losing power we'll just have to wait and see but bryson neal loses second for a mere moment and hunter hart regains it but back out of the water hunt or excuse me bryson was not wanting left hunter to have that advantage as they got back into the dry soils walker fowler i'm going to assume right now i'm going to try to get a clock on him when we see him around next but i'm going to put him somewhere in the neighborhood of about 8 to 10 seconds ahead of the battle for second place between the number seven of hunter hart who is third now at last check and bryce and neal who is up to the number two spot and i have to say a little bit of a surprise here for me not that the fact that uh that he's that the way things are breaking down as far as the race though that walker fowler maybe hasn't uh put the crunch on as much as what i expected but at the same time we're seeing glimpses back in the early part of this race this first half of the race so maybe the second half might bring a little different uh scenario as walker balor's endurance obviously top shelf uh he might be able to start pulling away from the rest of these guys is bryson neal's endurance and bike strength and fitness is as strong and as well as what he had hoped heading into the season we've seen him strong in the beginning part of the last seasons without heading south and training down in the sands of florida uh if that is any indication in previous seasons then today should be no different and it looks like bryce and neal could be a factor in this championship or excuse me in this race and this finish and the win here at the hog waller and of course this uh wild boar gncc josh merritt he's off the machine there merritt dropping back to 10th place in the xc1 pro class that looks like a rather extended uh pit stop there so not what not sure what's going on with josh merritt jm8 there but uh he's back out and rolling now so hopefully things are going to be fairing well for him mikey wayne's on his way down to our vp fuels pro row giving some monster energy uh race updates here as you can tell looking around beautiful sunshiny florida a little overcast today a slight breeze blowing some folks in jackets some folks in t-shirts and shorts i guess it all depends on what part of the country you came from to begin with what this weather feels like i will say it is a little bit chilly out there for uh even for some of us northerners as there is some moisture in the air but man i mean it's not cold [Laughter] it's not like ohio weather it's not like pennsylvania or west virginia weather by no stretch in the imagination so a good brunt in indiana weather and michigan and new york and good run of the riders coming from down around up around that area coming down this way so they're loving the conditions that we're faced with here today at uh wild boar gncc uh halfway point of this race now an hour and two minutes into the race uh we're going to get a report here from mikey wayne's i believe we probably got a lot of things going on so we're going to try to delve into some of these amateur classes first i want to give you a rundown real quick of the top 20 overall um it was uh balor out front neil in second richardson in fourth adam mcgill in fifth and sixth uh jared mcclure seventh john glotta eight chris boards night they have a fee hand josh merritt you see that there on the screen uh top 20 in 11 through 20. uh it's uh wesley wolf ben kaluski uh it is uh white wilkin 13 steve harrell 14 15 does johnny gallagher 16 10 and walker 17th brandon owens 18j chadron 19th is kenny schick and as we take a look at our amateur classes let's start with our junior b class mcmillan chain mcmillan to 416 leading that one we'll head to the vet v30 plus we'll pick that up in a minute david kite leading uh ben dunlap ryan lacroni in the number three spot uh kazmarski in the number four spot and neil miller number 424 rounds out your top five in the vet b class there's walker fowler on screen right now wes mint leading the senior v40 plus class with ashby back in the number two spot lemley in third of more than 171 jason lindley uh robert barrett the 612 and fourth and richie mccauley rounds out the top five in the senior v 40 plus class this will give us a pretty good indication as to what this gap is like in this xc1 pro class and i'm thinking we're around that uh 12 13 second mark right now if i counted that back right that the gap is between first and second as bryce neil checks in in that number two spot now xc2 pro am class big kalilewski wyatt will katana walker brandon owens and kenny chick your top five there after uh two laps of racing complete as we uh take a look at our next class i believe this will be our college a class that we'll be taking a look at next and this one a lot of ice on uh looks like harold 908 in the lead cory vanderlinder in the number two spot ethan meyer in third teaming in the number four spot and dalton keys rounds out fifth place in the college a 16 to 21 year old class on walker fowler in our yamaha racing live drone jay chadron got the whole shot the junior a22 plus class alex haley off in second jeremy ladau third bidding indorel in fourth and brody living good rounding out the top five and then a 30 plus class so balor enjoying about a 14 second lead he could pop a p jeff pickens leading the vet a class brad whitehead in second who got the early lead the hole shot uh chris kirby in fourth uh dirk to caesar in the number five spot as we go to uh senior 840 plus class uh brian shaw leading uh chris conklin mike weiss number three spot chris berry in fourth and andre barrios in the number five spot that's your senior 840 plus guys college g-class and uh uh ian burns followed by uh dickerson grasshopp uh arbogast in fourth uh stewart in fifth and of course let's uh do our junior 25 plus b class and then we'll check in with uh mikey wayne's we've got uh macmillan helbig in second new house sean neumaus in third nicklaney in fourth and robbie rosenberger rounding out the top five walker fowler again on screen of the one hour and five minute mark as he is working his way through lap number three right now and there is uh david kite leading that vet v30 plus class so that's where we started out dunlap lacroni kazmarsky miller still your top five let's head down to uh pro pit road vp fuels pro row where mikey wayne is standing by with a uh an update after those pit stops mikey what's going on down there buddy well rodney it's absolute chaos i'm here in the walker fowler pits because no honestly it's pretty calm it's chill it's cool it's collected uh those that we did not see pit on screen on racer tv everybody pit everybody got fuel everybody got goggles josh merritt with a little bit of trouble but uh got back on the machine pretty quick something wrong with the front end but didn't seem too serious so he's back out there so all in all what you see on screen right now no drama everybody's handling the florida sands pretty well nothing to report rodney we'll take it back to you well i guess no news is good news sometimes especially if uh uh uh your your things are going the way that they are so it's a great race going on everybody seems to be kosher and everything seems to be rolling the way that it should there is walker fowler no that is bryson neal sorry i was looking for walker fowler just came through this section a moment ago this is our fmf powerpoint and that is not walker baller that is the number three i apologize cole richardson that is your fourth place ride uh colt changing up plastics on me out there he also listed was listed as 733 had me kind of confused out there in the uh starting lineups but we got it all sorted out and then i remember oh yeah that's old number but uh he is the number three rider in this uh 2021 championship season now the gap back to fifth place adam mcgill nearly 50 seconds right now folks so just let you know there's a big gap opening up between fourth and fifth again it's fowler followed by neal hart richardson and mcgill your top five gncc live will continue after this will walker fowler continue this domination can bryson neal bridge the gap stick around to find out tncc live continues after this [Music] [Music] seconds [Music] [Music] even when you're the best you never stop striving to be better the all-new from the ground up 2019 yamaha yz250f is available at low jack cycle sales alongside the all-new yz65 and yz-85 and refined yz-450f so stop by lojack cycle sales today in torrentium pennsylvania and visit our online inventory at www.lojax.com yamaha yz it's why we 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for the xc2 pro lights class win at north carolina's famed steel creek gncc and that's this week in yamaha history and welcome back to gncc live rodney tomlin along with mikey waynes here from the moose racing wild boar gncc palanca florida round two of the gncc championship series presented by specialized e-turbo bikes as we are looking out over the thousand-acre forest here at uh the hog waller aka known as the wild boar gncc on the rodman plantation there you can see is one of the uh basically that is a uh a boat drag strip uh they uh they drag well they they take their four wheelers they take their mud runners they take their flat bottom boats and they drag race up through that big long pit there there's the thousand acre woods we're talking about and that's what the riders are uh traversing through as they make their way into the closing moments of each and every lap and i will tell you that area leading in is a rather wet area as far as these conditions are concerned so they'll be tiptoeing through different portions of that as well checking in on our xc2 battle right now we've seen some great racing going on there i haven't had a chance to highlight a lot of it just yet but ben kawaluski the 447 wyatt wilkin in second ronnie rush uh the number seven fourteen will rocket ronnie in third place tanner walker in fourth and brandon owens rounding out the top five that is owens going by there on the 246 and owens a rider running xc2 class is one that we expect to see a lot of things out of i know he had some issues at the last round but running a solid top five here in the xc2 class today there's your sixth place right i believe that's kenny schick or is that a change there that's the 7 14 actually we've got a change there looks like brandon owens has moved around ronnie rush now so owens is ahead of rush and rush is either in that fourth or fifth place position i think that's going to drop him back to the number five spot so a few changes taking place in xc2 pro am class cloud we were able to catch up with those guys on screen right there and get a little bit of an idea of what that second premier class is starting to shape up like one hour 15 minutes into this race here in the sands of palatka florida glad that you folks have chosen to be along with us as we are waiting for our leaders to check in just to give you an idea of those xc2 pro-am riders in the battle coming down to the finish line in about 16 minutes for lap three complete on that one we're about five minutes 25 seconds out right now from seeing our xc1 pro atv leaders check in wow that is a big difference these guys up front have really really amassed a pretty substantial lead over the rest of the field of riders not just talking xc1 riders but i'm talking the entire overall field that is crazy to see that those guys are running somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 minutes off the pace the leaders 10 minutes behind the pace of what walker fowler is turning on these first couple of laps out there that's pretty impressive stuff if you do the math and think about it what kind of pace walker is laying down right now and you know i alluded to this at the early part of the show oftentimes on that first lap we see those xc2 guys getting up into the top 10 maybe even a top five sometimes because they're usually a little more intense off the start than what the xc1 class it's a whole different ball game here this year there's one of our gncc kennel club uh puppies uh beautiful oh man that is a beautiful dog right there so all families coming out and enjoying themselves mikey wayne's course he always finds the the friendly ones out there and i guess yeah those are adam mcgill's puppies those are yeah now i can see them and i can see adam in their eyes right there look at that they're waiting on adam to come in right now he calls him his fur babies that's his fur babies that he is yeah he they don't have children but those two puppies those are his fur babies and uh they treat him like their kids and you can tell they're very uh well-trained dogs no doubt just waiting on daddy to come into the pit so he can cheer him on as he goes through but you need them on you mean barking exactly but you know that's one thing that i like to point out i mean this is a family very family oriented affair that we have here in gncc racing um just to point out uh you know you see sometimes a mom a dad uh a son a daughter all the family racing on the same weekend and maybe even into someday push now party later whose is that that's probably walker that's adam mcgill's okay pitboard push now party later i guess he has to keep reminding himself of that but i'm sure it's just a friendly reminder and basically what they're saying the better you do the better the party's going to be so push now so we can party later [Laughter] that is pretty true i think about that like that yeah you got you got to look at things from different angles ryan picking up different angles look at i don't matter what angle you look at this at it's so bad it's still bad it is still real bad i am interested to see what kind of line choices we may have haven't had a chance to be out on the trail this year generally i go out and ride uh here in florida especially at least a third or two thirds of the race course didn't get a chance to go out any where this uh this week prior to the race uh although i do know that there was a lot of water out there oh my god see that's the kind of things uh you know obviously that was a good line choice for him but he didn't expect that deep rut that those front wheels were going to be falling into so without the aid of four-wheel drive which some of our riders have it looked deep but it's not as deep as it looks so deceiving just like we said everything just tricks you but i'm not sure if you saw but um right here right after this finish um that is deep deep yeah i saw there was um i think it was a youth bike or whatever stuck yeah youth quad yeah that that was happening quite a bit this year yeah i i heard that in a couple different areas so that you know they they're getting deep on this sand there's no doubt about that so uh it's uh it's a challenge there is no doubt so you're going to have your challenges for you tomorrow morning ryan i'm on season [Laughter] you know i came here excited you know i'm gonna do good i'm gonna be dry you're training sand and then you come here instead of sand you get mud you get deep holes all righty leaders coming to the monster mile but that's just the nature of gncc racing right you just don't know what's going you don't come you don't know what's going on oh wow you see that wow walker fowler and talk about those ruts look he's trying to ride those ruts and trying to get off to the sides of them you know generally you see one breaks neal was that neal that close bryce and neal has closed to within about a four second gap between he and walker fowler he's got him in sights he has got him in the bead right now folks there's wesley wolf we see on screen a lap down uh not sure okay not sure what's going on with him uh not sure where the number seven of hunter hart is at this particular moment either as we are wondering this very same thing ryan amancio where is hunter hart he was a member and a mix of that that battle that was up front for so long for the first half of this race but uh evidently uh maybe the push early might have been a little more than what hunter was maybe ready for endurance wise i'm not sure maybe maybe but then again you never know i mean hunter has been training in the sands like walker but you know like we said you know walker's been spending a lot of time his endurance and he trains maybe in a little different and more intense way than other writers do so he's got something figured out a little more than others do kind of like oh yeah caleb russell when a few of the guys did on the two-wheel side of things that is for sure but i think what's happening is that hunter hart he could raise half of the race up there upfront then i feel like either he gets just loses focus or gets tired or something distracts him or something does not well i think if we look there he is all right there there's hunter hart he does check in on the number three spot oh that's going to suck no goggles in in third spot but a big gap uh leaders are late coming to the finish line right now we're going to get a an idea of what the lap times 28 52 was the last one so oh that's you know ruts left riders you can't get i mean uh i'm pretty sure this for four wheels and two wheels as well if someone's in a rut and you're behind them there's no way they're gonna you're not getting out you can't get around all right austin abney standing by with mikey wayne's in the pit let's check in there hey thanks guys yeah down here austin abney uh rookie this season round two florida sand it's a race of survival man you're here in the pits the helmet's off the gears coming off what the heck happened uh we were out there and uh clutch started acting up so uh i actually had to stop let the clutch cool down and uh notice there's notice there's a bunch of oil so we pulled in here and uh had to find out the bottom of the case cracked out so uh we're out of oil and uh out of time here in florida out of time on to georgia man uh so what are the thoughts second round obviously we know how this one went for you we know the end of the story uh two rounds or a round and a half i should say under your belt now how are you adjusting here to this rookie season uh we're uh like i said you know before the first round i know it's a learning year um i would hope i would have had this whole motor thing figured out but it happened so um we're just gonna move forward and uh keep learning on to georgia short week man you're gonna be ready to go in georgia yes sir all right we'll take it back to you rodney all right thanks a lot mikey wayne's in the meantime walker fowler bryce and neal checking in 2.7 seconds separating the two riders as we watched him from our yamaha live drone in the woods we can see right now that uh bryson neal is much closer than 2.7 seconds as they weave their way through the trees now back out and tell us some of this wet section of racecourse as they hit some of the hog wallers famous mudbogs here and right back into these four sections it is still walker fowler out front we're gonna say in that two to three second range it's getting tighter it's kind of like that accordion effect that we see so often out here and uh bunching up and then separating bunching up and separating and that's what we're wearing witness to right now with walker fowler in the lead and bryce and neal right behind him in the number two spot as we take a look back to the number three spot that 3.7 seconds that hunter heart was behind walker fowler lapico has turned into a much wider gap hunter heart as a minute and 43 seconds back a lap rider in the way of a hunt excuse me of walker fowler but not going to slow his progress down and look at this hunter hart excuse me walker fowler is hot on the throttle right now as he is trying to use those left riders to get between he and the number two of bryce and neal but he's getting caught up with this lap rider now and bryce and neal pulling up onto the rear grab bar now of walker fowler we've got a nose-to-tail battle now as walker gets by the left rider there goes bryce and neal and he's got turbo in that yamaha you know this is where experience will come into play especially for walker because walker's ahead and walker he obviously doesn't want to be behind bryson because it's a final lap anything could happen but he wants to stay he wants to stay ahead of them and not be behind bryson because bryson if he gets ahead and he opens that's where the mind games start to play in there's no doubt about that and the mind games start playing and you know the question has been asked so many times is uh walker in his own head out there is bryce in walker's head and you know that question is hard hard to answer right now uh and i guess we probably won't get that answer until maybe walker divulges the answer that is it him or is it bryson in his head either way bryce and neal uh is uh taking advantage of the circumstance in the situation as we uh welcome mikey wayne's back in studio and here it is the battle they are literally look at this you can throw a blanket over them a couple of bike links separate these two mikey waynes as they come through this tree section now in this kind of open field section is bryce and neal going to be able to thread a needle out here and make the pass if he does what's that gonna mean here in this last lap of racing well i think this is what uh the folks at home are wanting last week they wanted to see this this kneel this fowler battle just like this we didn't get to see it last week was a couple weeks ago a little unique but here you go it's unfolding right here on racer tv right now well i'll tell you i wasn't trying taking anything away from bryce and neal but i was in anticipation of walker fowler coming out on a mission today and i thought that since bryson had had that hiccup off the start lost that 15 seconds worth of time just think about where this race would be right now had he not done that and uh so but in my opinion coming into this my thought was that walker was just going to come out here with total destruction on his mind and i'm sure that's what is on his mind but bryson neal he is not relinquishing to that any whatsoever he is you know the old norm of walker's going to do this walker he doesn't live by that rule he lives by the bryson kneel rule of i'm going to win this race if at all possible i need reeling them in they keep stretching out real men that accordion effect yo-yo effect whatever you want to call it is hot and heavy right now and you could see the neil pitts as they went through pro row those guys practically in the middle of the of pro row right there cheering them on saying go get them now's the time i'll tell you what no matter what happens at this point on bryson neal is thick in the head of walker fowler just simply by being able to close that gap the way that he has coming from where he came from to get to where he is right now when walker goes back and reflects upon this race there are going to be lingering moments of bryson neal really pounding hard in his head and this is going to be pretty exciting i'm not giving this race away to bryce and neal by no stretch of the imagination i'm not giving this race away to walker fowler by no stretch of the imagination what i'm saying right here we have got a mano amano duel right down to the battle this right here is going to be some bragging rights for one of these riders when the checker flag flies today that nails it right there a little lap traffic right there for walker lap rider moves out of the way for for uh for walker for the moment and gets out of the way for bryce and neal right there and this is where it could get tricky yeah does one of them have something up the sleeve right here and this is this is a place rodney we talked about it earlier this changes throughout the course of the race i mean something that could have been fairly shallow early could be deep now uh-oh now look at the steam coming out of the machine of bryce and neal he's gone through that he's eaten a lot more wake into his machine than what walker fowler is will this be an issue for bryce and neal look at how fast walker fowler exited that waterhole and bryson neal seems to be a little down on power right now is he getting stuck or is the water causing some issues for him with the motor right now this is going to be very interesting to see what happens here in the next half a mile or so that's going to tell a lot this is uh this is what the folks at home wanted right here camera pants back where's hunter hart where's that third place rider well we're waiting to see ourselves and we'll get a bird's eye view coming up on that in a few moments and i'm curious to see did bryce and neal maybe do some damage to that machine because walker fowler really put the hammer down coming out of that that waterhole right there and he put a big distance gap between himself and the number two machine i never did see bryce and neal come out of that water hole on fire like what i saw walker fowler coming out of that so we'll see right here whether or not that was an issue uh what the if any uh thing happened uh to bryce and neal and if that is going to be maybe the deciding factor of what this race is going to be i i mentioned that when bryce and neal went through a lap ago we watched that he was going through much faster than anyone else and i mentioned the possibility of getting that water up into that air breather and sucking that water into the motor now when you put two riders that close together i said he was sucking up the majority of the wake he was not only getting the water that he was pushing but he was also getting water from walker fowler's machine yeah got to use the wake terms for in florida i like that i like that um all right so uh watching this one mikey wayne's you know it's pretty interesting to me the way this is all breaking down like i said it has said all day you know i came in with a different mindset of what this race was going to be i i had in my mind that walker fowler was going to come in he was going to be basically unstoppable i thought since he's trained so hard in the sand you know and bryce and neal has it now i know that bryson's had good good runs here and last year was a proving point of that even though he didn't win here last year uh he had a really strong run but i just thought maybe walker might have the advantage in the sand this right here could be a turning of the tide my friends and this we might be witnessing this and this is pretty exciting if you're a gncc racing fan if you're a walker fowler fan you might be a little nervous right now but if you're a fan of racing you know this is good for the sport yeah no doubt about that the other thing i got to thank if i'm if i'm bryce and neal the folks at home you might be thinking well neil if he gets second well we we basically start back over at zeros heading into round three right so they'll be tied for the points because walker's got to win bryson's got to win make no mistake bryson neal knows you cannot give walker fowler an inch he knows he needs every win he can get and if walker fowlers and bryson kneels sights he's got to make it happen he's got to go out there and uh tried to snag a win yep and that's exactly what's going to happen and like i said bryce and neal could sit right here and that's what i said and i even made this mention even if bryson is able to catch up to him and it proves to be a little maybe on the ragged edge too much to get around walker to take that win he's better suited to stay right where he is and leave this one with the uh here with the uh actual uh uh tie in points rather than risking something and maybe losing more than than than this that you know going into the third round as a tied and holding you know with walker for that championship points league so i mean this right here is not only a racers game but you got to be thinking about this this is where a true champion starts to think about the championship i know it's only round two but you got a plan you got to work accordingly you know how we say uh you and you said it i've heard you said i've said it everybody every announcer you know says that you know your your championships are one on your worst days oh and if this is the worst day for bryce and neal that's okay yep you know live with it and accept it if round one was a bad day for walker fowler yeah except live with it and and honestly that's just the way it is and both these writers have a level right now and i think we're starting to see that uh come to fruition for what last year with a breakout season that bryce and neal had and what we're seeing so far here yeah we're starting to see two riders on this level right now yeah that nails it rodney and one of the the guys too the guy sitting in third right now hunter hart was talking to a few folks out on the uh pro row not just in hunter hart's pit but the rest of them they said we're not surprised to see hunter hart doing these things he's right there they said this season looked for him to be up there battling with these guys but they said honestly we're a little scared of what hunter hart's going to do next season and forward because each race he's up there battling with these guys they know this was what we saw out of bryson neil the last couple years that confidence boost is there okay i'm a podium regular guy walker fowler on screen right there see where bryson neal's at rodney's counting oh it's tightening up right now three seconds right there is all i'm seeing in between first and second place right now so neil is able to bridge that gap so my question about the water he may be slowed down to keep from getting that wake and that's where walker was able to get that quick gap on him right there but he with lap traffic and obviously the speeds that uh bryce neal is uh uh is pushing right now he was able to bridge that gap right back up to uh basically on the rear grab bar of the number one of walker fowler i i'm ready to see this finish i want to see these guys coming through wheel to wheel handlebar to handlebar how we like it uh through the finish and uh don't get me wrong they're nice to each other they like each other they're not enemies by any means but they're going to lay it all out if it comes down to it in those last few turns man nearly two minutes ahead of third place position right now first and second place i mean wow i mean that's insane that is insane and uh you know we've had one rider on day on certain days that seem to be at this level but when you get two writers on the same day at this level wow this is what we get right here for what has seemed like at least not maybe not all six of the last years but maybe for three or four of them it's been the walker fowler show unless something happens to him mechanically or he's not racing i said walker fowler's name so many times in the last few years i swear i was going to start charging him for or i was afraid he was going to start some sponsorship money yeah but i was actually afraid he was going to start charging us just to use his name as much as we were using it but i i'm sure he would like to hear that a lot more these days just like like like but you know that's the nature of the beast man i mean you know that's the way it was for him when chris borge was the man when bill balance was the man then chris borge came in you know the same kind of stories were starting to be told about chris and bill uh same kind of stories about walker and chris same kind of stories now about bryce and neal yeah and walker fowler and if you would have guessed it three years ago you probably would have never said there were a few handful people said bryce and neal's the next guy on the rise i'm sure there were other writers that many writers people would have chosen ahead of that and it's interesting how things pan out and play play out over the course of time in this sport of hours fmf powerpoint look how close they are nearly nose to tail when one comes out the other one right there behind him fmf powerpoint as they zig and zag through these chicanes mikey wayne's uh they're riding train tracks out there neither rider is getting out of those grooves normally when we see walker he's running three or four inches to the left three or four inches to the right that not being the case today because it's not possible i don't think yeah yeah that's there's a lot of a lot of this track out there from talking to the youth in the the morning race single track if you will the there's no line choices the line that you see it's the only one you can take and to say they're running out as an understatement some of these sections i don't think there's a bottom to it i tell you it it's going to make for a very interesting two-wheel battle coming up tomorrow there's no doubt about that because we got farm burners going on in that one as well but right now still up in the air who's going to take this one walker fowler or will bryson neal pull the shot will we hear the shot from the bidwell bullet as he'll take the checkers here today in florida who knows stick around gncc live continues right after this so rocky mountain atv mc retailer distributor manufacturer product developer parts tester this is what we do but who we are is something much simpler we're riders like you 100 employee owned and operated a company built by riders entirely for riders rocky mountain atv mc get ready [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hmm 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the things i noticed was just my ability to string good days together you know like especially in the summer time in florida where you're riding every day and the heat index is 108 degrees and you're doing 230s and going to the gym and bicycling and all that stuff i think in the past i've been super inconsistent day to day yeah i may have a you know a good race here or you know a good day during the week there but overall i think where i improved the most was my consistency in my recovery and welcome back to gncc live rodney tomlin along with mikey waynes and ammunition for your body arma man just checking that stuff out there pretty cool stuff and glad to have them on board here at racer tv of course walker fowler do in and bryce and neal in about 10 and a half minutes for checkered flag mikey waynes and just kind of trying to set the stage on this one man again if you're just joining us or you joined us late uh bryson neal 15 second uh penalty uh asserted as assessed to him on lap number one he was running in third place at the end of the first lap he had a false start uh started the engine early uh didn't start actually but he got it turned off and then and then he got off to a bad start was able to pass through the pack up to third place uh dropped back to i think sixth place and was back into third place behind hunter hart quickly got around hunter hart and has reeled in walker fowler to the point where he is within inches at times of that rear grab bar and certainly giving us a whole lot of excitement as far as round two and this uh this uh uh wild boar gncc i'm i mean i i expected i anticipated exciting things i'm going to tell you i didn't expect it like this i i can't say that this isn't what i hoped for because yes these are these are the kind of races you hoped for but i really didn't expect it this time it's it's pleasant surprise to see that i was wrong for a change yeah right i didn't mean to like that it's not a bad deal i feel like you know but you know sometimes you know you look at historical factors you you know writers personalities and things and sometimes you take judgment upon those but there's the unknown variables like the hunger and desires of other writers like bryce and neal that i didn't factor into that you know i mean that's just plain and simple the way it boils down to it and so it gives us this ten minute more minutes of exciting action right down to the wire who's it going to be walker fowler uh is it going to be bryce and neal as they go by our camera shot here and you can see they are still nose to tail man i mean uh as you know you can use any cliche here you can throw a blanket over them you can slip a piece but you can't hardly slip a piece of paper in between them uh you know he's towing them whatever you know i mean these guys are close i mean in in in terms of gncc racing that is virtually side by side when those guys come back don't come that close no it's not literally side by side but it is uh getting there figuratively in in this in this sport and it only and we see how quickly time can be made up and you know those those turns cut just a fraction of a second a better line choice here and a line choice there making up a two to three second gap in a blink of an eye i just love the nature of the sport and and the way it comes down to the very end you know another thing as this one gets close to the end as close as bryce and neal is bryce and neal and walker they know the gap they have between them and third place writer hunter hart so if i'm bryce and neal i know hey i can risk it for the win i can make a move that is very aggressive because i know if i go down i've got some time to get back on my machine and still probably take home second without hunter hart coming up behind me and taking it away from me so we very well could see a very aggressive move by bryce and neal down in the wire in this one most certainly and it's going to be exciting and you know um i i've been doing this for 25 years this i think is my 25th season of in some capacity of being in association with the grand national cross country championship c series and as many amazing championship battles and as many exciting times as i've seen i have to think that we may be in store for maybe the best yet and i've seen some amazing things mikey uh i we've talked about them uh and time and time again you've asked me questions you know and i've and i've remembered things and and told you stories but this right here my friend may be the best out of every one we've ever witnessed it's uh it's that they're definitely setting the bar high early and i'm talking around the round house atv side and the motorcycle things with uh the caleb russell being gone on the two-wheel side of things that has certainly opened that threshold up uh with what we got going on the and the armor maybe the dent in the armor of walker fowlers now that the other riders are starting to feel that they have at least at this moment uh this is uh this is pretty exciting as to what this can lend itself to over the course of the next now 11 rounds of atv ratio still 12 rounds of motorcycle racing you know this today on the atv side it almost feels like you know a couple years ago for the two-wheel side of things where we saw it was okay when we come into the race day we know it's going to be a caleb russell and thad to ball battle caleb's probably going to be out front but that's always going to be there and then that third place guy well it's probably going to be stu baylor it's almost like we're seeing that now a younger stew baylor it's almost like we're seeing that on the atvs where we've got okay walker fowler definitely still the guy to beat but bryce and neal is right there is it his time he's always going to be there fighting and then you've got the young and upcoming hunter hart who is probably going to be that number three guy unless someone jumps up there and knocks them off it's just very similar very big similarities there well i'll tell you man the one thing that keeps me coming back is these kind of scenarios in the fact that after two and three hours of racing these guys are virtually wheel to wheel nose to tail whenever they come through these uh finish lines and come down to the finish lines and you know you don't see that in nearly any other form of racing right casing car racing and things like that you might get that on occasion but rarely do you see that motocross and super cross it's been a little better this year for crossing motocross into things but it's never been as good as what it is right here right now is that early that i don't know that is illegal i believe so okay so on screen walker fowler and bryce and neal still in that order as we watch them manipulate and looks to me like things must be very deep out there because we are not seeing the speeds out of any of these riders that we were seeing in some of these sections earlier and that train track effect is what we're witnessing and you can tell just how dark those two ruts are on either side of that path going through the woods that means that this this trail is getting very very deep right now we are right now four minutes 22 seconds from an anticipated waving of the uh checker flag and i'm getting reports now that that may not have been our leaders but regardless there was a good battle going on through there now mike it's all right it it's hard to tell uh especially like i said you know i mean what we're talking about these these ruts and things and that's the kind of uh circumstances that that lends us to riders of that caliber slowing down to those paces that we're seeing these riders slowing down on here in this final lap but at the same time we'll know more here in just a few moments we're now about three and a half minutes or so out from uh when we expect to see leaders check into the finish line region and uh the waving of the flag for well our winner will it be walker fowler will it be bryce and neal what will it be and what will that mean as we roll into georgia in just one short week if we leave here with a tie in the championship you know both riders are going to be stoked and riding high in georgia in hopes of being able to reclaim or gain the points lead if bryson neal is able to leave out of here with a two race win and a 10 point lead the uh host of confidence that he will be carrying will be uh unsurmountable i i'm sure and even walker fowler will find it difficult to uh maybe knock bryce and neal off that top shelf right now bryce and neal if he gets this win if he's able to go head to head with walker fowler this is going to answer a lot of questions this is going to as well back up a lot of statements that a lot of folks have made over the course of the last year or so about the rise of bryce and neal and the threat that he holds in the championship for walker fowler so again folks this is exciting times in the gncc racing nation as we are witnessing history here once again today in the sands of florida as this nose-to-tail battle for the atv overall win here at this moose racing wild boar gncc unfolds before our very eyes one hour and nearly 50 minutes now into this race in this battle as walker balor checks in in the monster mile where is bryce and neal the number two we look back the gap has opened up now between first and second place walker fowler looking over his shoulder at the 13 mile marker sees no bryson neal where is the number two of neal now still no sign of the number two of bryce and neal unless we missed him going through i'm not going to say that that isn't the case but i'm pretty sure it's not something must have happened walker fowler appears to have now opened that lead up over that second place position you can see the left rider looking over his shoulder as if someone is approaching very quickly he keeps looking back i'm going to assume that is the number two of bryce and neal now and if that's the case it looks like this is going to leave here with a tie in the points battle and this one will leave here with walker fowler still with the confidence of that six championships behind him and bryce and neal will still have the fire and the desire to try and reel him back in as we check on screen that is that no that is not the number two of bryce and neal i thought it was there but i seen that maxis logo on there but this is not uh bryce bryce and neal i mean i'm telling you folks something the big happened here for the number two machine i'm going to i'm gonna go out on limb here and say maybe water related because he really uh hit some of those water holes hard out there and if he did that again and maybe sucked up some water into that motor we might have seen some motor problems again that is complete speculation uh on my part uh i'm just curious and wondering what is going on here at the 13 mile marker as walker fowler makes his way toward the finish line right now 11 seconds away is where we're seeing him i'm sure we'll get a split screen going on this one here in just a moment because we're going to want to watch the finish line as well and see what's going on back here behind walker fowler as we approach the conclusion of the moose racing wild boar gncc here in beautiful palatka florida there is your six-time gncc champion walker fowler traversing his way through the final and closing moments of the thousand acre woods as the checkers fly and walker fowler takes win number 61 and the first win of the 2021 season here at the wild boar gncc so fowler taking the big win and i know that one right there is going to mean a whole lot for him and the chinks in the armor the dents in the armor i think the questions may have just been answered walker fowler comes out on top yet again in a heated battle with bryce and neal here in florida still waiting on bryce and neal to make his way in as we check this one it was an hour 51 minutes and 55 and a half second race for walker fowler as he checked in there with four laps complete and still waiting on second place bryson neal there is the smile that has escaped walker fowler's face for some time now and there it is back you can see the weight has been lifted off his shoulder walker fowler back at 100 here in the gncc racing nation mark nutman you can see a big sign of relief for him as well and uh there's uh rock greatly down there to congratulate him donnie loose as well from yamaha there's larry mills from dp breaks a lot of folks down there ready to congratulate our tncc champion and now uh tied for points here in the 20 well we don't know he might actually have the points lead depending on what happens with bryce neal having seen bryce neal check in just yet haven't heard any word on what's going on there so maybe we can get a word on what's going on with bryce and neal right now but i have to wonder folks i said it uh when he went through those water puddles was he maybe sucking in too much water was he going to cause motor damage in his machine for later on in the battle i guess time will tell and we'll find out more answers to those questions a little later on what the problem just may be but we'll also going to get a good idea of who's going to be taking that third place position maybe even second place we so cole richardson making his way in now on that number three machine the coal train out of edenburg pennsylvania has not been much of a factor in this race today but he may get himself a podium here at the end of this battle royale that i like to call it in gncc racing and as we update that still no one in for second place that two minute barrier that walker fowler had talked about last season may have been achieved here today as we still wait for second place to cross the finish line more top pro riders checking in there's the number four jared mccor adam mcgill just ahead of him as well chris borich also in the hunt back there as he's approaching the 13 mile marker as we still wait on that second place finisher no sign and we are approaching some two plus minutes since last maybe even three minutes now since walker fowler has checked into this uh from this battle with the checkers and the win today amazing what we have bear witness to here in gncc racing today still no sign of second place last time we saw them on screen they were nose to tail basically with neal right behind walker fowler did he push that envelope too much did the scenarios shape up that i was talking about did bryson take the risks that we are afraid that he might take and put himself in this exact circumstance and situation again we'll get the answers to these and many more questions as we wait patiently here at this finish line to find out who will be our second place finisher in this xc1 pro class and for the overall here at the moose racing wild boar gncc walker fowler checked in at one hour 51 minutes 55 seconds we'll call it one hour 52 minutes we are now near and at one hour and 56 minutes say so we're looking at a four minute gap this is getting close to what i would say record breaking times in between positions oh mercy there went down it was that the number four of mcclure going down that was a battle for second coming down to the wire right there and your battle one rider going down there i believe that was the battle for second maybe i was wrong that looked like now that was hunter hart checking in in second your third place position finish will go to cole richardson that was richardson that went down tangling with hunter hart there in the final turns coming to the checkered flag still no sign of bryce and neal and no word yet as to what the problem may be as to why he has not crossed this finish line yet adam mcgill and in the number four spot four minutes 23 seconds the gap between first and second walker fowler over hunt her heart and this my friends is an exclamation point as large as i've ever seen in my life as far as a statement that walker fowler is making today not only taking the win but somehow or another able to do it by four minutes and 23 seconds over the rest of the field still no answers as to what happened to bryce and neal the number two who was in the shadows of fowler as they were approaching the closing moments of this race will be heading down to the finish line region in just a few moments to get our specialized post race interview with uh walker fowler in just a few moments also hunter hart and cole richardson but the question burning in everyone's mind right now is what happened to bryson neal let's head down to mikey waynes well thanks rodney down here with walker fowler man uh we knew 2021 was going to be wild took you two rounds you got the win oh yeah hey you know what i think we just got lucky that's all there is to it we got lucky that's it just luck pure luck after all these wins that's all it takes to win a championship that's all it takes to win races a little bit of locks just a little bit off got lucky hopefully i can get lucky a couple more times in my career i think you're going to get lucky several more than your career man well talk about this polaka g and cc i mean it's always gnarly down here this one was pretty gnarly a battle with you and bryce and neal we saw unfold on racer tv you're finally able to snag that win this year yep uh got off to a good start uh big shout out to hunter hart man we had such a good time those first two laps that kid he's going to be a handful coming up i'm excited that uh you know is as good as it is for the fans that you know neil and i are riding good it's gonna be even better when hunter hart and a couple of these other young kids start making their way up through and uh you know instead of having one guy get away or a two-rider battle we're gonna be seeing three and four guys here and and that's what this sport needs and man uh i have never been to a florida gncc that had this many people and uh i think people are just are just excited about racing again and and uh man the atv numbers out did the bike numbers last race even with all the fiasco that racer tv had atv racing is alive and well i don't care who you say or you know if everyone wants to down and say it's dying just look at the numbers man we're healthier than ever nails it right there walker uh what's uh tied for the points lead i believe coming into that well no i take that back bryce and did not uh finish second so i take that back so now in the points lead you're in control the season what's the mindset with the short week in between second uh and third round uh again this is where uh this is where our team really starts to shine uh we start picking up our stride the first couple races are always tough but i'd say by around five or six that's where things really start to really show their face so uh you know a huge bummer for neal he was riding really good that was a tough track uh it was tough on the machines you could definitely override it and i was just trying to stay uh you know i was just trying to stay smooth because i know last year bryson got around me and crashed so i was like you know what i'm just gonna do my thing if he if he wants to go for it go for it and it got quiet and i was like well you know what just doing my thing that's i'm my own worst enemy so uh you know i cut my own finger off i got myself a concussion and i won today's race damn it i'm excited there you go he's excited make some noise for walker foul way to go walker good job buddy and you know uh a a statement you know joking or not uh the way he said it you know he's a lucky person he's lucky fowler no doubt about it but the one thing you got to say you make your own luck my friends there's no doubt about it you put yourself in the positions for luck to happen and that's exactly what walker fowler has done here today as he demolishes the entire field of gncc racers that was my call coming into it it didn't come down exactly the way i thought it would but he does make that statement that we exactly thought he would coming into this round hunter hart will finish up in second maybe uh another a best i know he's got a win under his belt but that second place position finished the right that he put together amazing cole richardson again and that third place will be down to talk with he and uh hunter here in just a moment again mcgill and four chair mcclure in fifth chris sports has checked in in sixth and just fyi still no sign of bryce and neal at the finish line so uh those points gap and that points gap continues to widen between first and well what was first place and uh of course we got a new points leader and not sure where that's going to put bryson neal at the end of the day but i know where that puts up walker fowler cloud nine right now he is loving life and living large and uh rightfully so all the hard work my friend is paying off there's no doubt about it so uh fowler out front uh in this one hunter hart taking second i know mikey wayne says working to get a word in with him we're gonna check in with those two here in just a few moments and and get the word from hunter about uh how great a race day he had what is going on guys hunter's gonna take it from their run this guy's amped up i don't know if he's shivering or the adrenalis go adrenaline is going round one you finish third round two in a big surprise hunter hart finishes second oh yeah for sure i mean super pumped uh i was joking the mark at the start i was like buddy watch this we're gonna get a hole shot today and uh managed to get the whole shot and then uh walker i let walker by because i was like i figured he gets at a better pace than i could and it was it was sweet you know i followed him for the first first two laps and then um it was it was nice you know i was able to be up front and uh just make it easy on myself all day and then cole and i were in a battle that last lap and uh it was it was intense but it was a good day it was a solid super super good day have you had a moment to kind of think about the start you've had to this season the last couple years we've been saying where's hunter hart when's it going to start clicking for you for him i got to think man things are clicking rolling for you now yeah i mean i think we've uh we've put a lot of good steps in the right direction we uh we hired steve hatch to help us out he's been helping us for about the last uh eight months really when i turned it around last year and then uh the whole wfr mark knotman you know they uh they helped me out a ton as well and we've uh we've put the steps in the right direction and uh we've been able to start putting putting the program together to where uh where we're confident and comfortable every weekend there you go congratulations make some noise second place finish hunter hard and how does this sound welcome back podium contender hunter hart second place here in round two uh cole richardson we saw uh i think he actually took a spill right there at the very end of that race trying to get around hunter hart for that third place position but coltrane really chugging along today and uh doing just exactly what he needed to do to put himself in a great position at uh race day in adam mcgill too the gator down here in the sands of florida uh pretty impressive by that rider only 17 seconds behind richardson so man how quickly this race turned around in the last 10 minutes or so of what we saw and what we thought we were going to see so exciting uh is one word that we can use uh unbelievable is another word that we can use and uh uh just doggone leaving me one more is another way that we can look at it as well because i can't wait for what george is gonna bring us in one week and that's that's the thing about this uh this florida round we go back-to-back weekends and that's something that we generally don't do in gncc racing so we'll go one week uh in between races we'll be back at aeonia pass and of course with that we will get things up uh and going and seeing how well how quickly people have been able to uh heal uh how quickly they've been able to prep their bikes and get re-prepared for another great day of racing our third place finisher once again cole richardson get a little hairy coming into the finish line itself but was still able to take that third place spot we'll head down to mikey waynes and talk with those two here in just a few moments to put it all into perspective what this race day has been like mikey you guys ready well we're still waiting on uh cole richardson i'm not sure if he headed back to the pits or not but i think that might be it rodney all right well uh just a quick question i don't know have you heard any word anything about bryson yeah uh i haven't heard anything up this end yet uh same thing down here a lot of uh talking back and forth do we have coal oh we do have coal um so but yeah to update you we'll get cole set up here all right while you do that i did just get an update uh uh they said uh they don't know what but he broke something on the machine from what i understand so with that let's head down to the specialized post race interview with our third place finisher cole richardson rodney yeah down here with cole cole cole comes up to me dude he's got the freshy on he's already in crocs he said i thought i got fourth man so uh he's you got third so i feel like you got to think well if i thought i got fourth and i ended up on the box that's it's not a bad day yeah you know uh we definitely had a lot more speed uh you know we got around hunter he blitzed the butthole got around me and uh ended up losing my goggles there and just taking roost all day and uh i just kind of disappointed with how i rode you know the second half of the race we rode really well and uh just kind of couldn't get around hunter there and um you know we tried to make a pass stick there at the end clipped a little tree i i was under the impression i got fourth but uh you know i'll take third not happy with it uh but that's why we have georgia next weekend that was going to be my next point yeah podium's great but we know what you expect out of yourself this season so where's your mind at heading into round three uh you know i want to win you know that's that's what i feel like i trained hard enough this winter we had a bad race the first race you know i don't consider this uh you know that great of a day but we're on the podium and uh you know even if uh we get a second next race you know we're still off to a better start than we were last season with the eighth place in georgia so uh we still have potential of having a better start to the season uh it's not where i want to be and uh you know hopefully we're inside of the box there you go cole richardson taking third place here today in palatka well mikey wings i'll tell you what you want to know how dominating our xc1 class was here in this uh round that palakka we have not seen our leaders check in in the xz2 pro am class last check it was ben kawaluski leading that one tanner walker ronnie rush brandon owens and kenny schick rounding out the top five there's your top 10 results from today's racing and officially rocky mountain atvnc leaderboard again walker fowler hunter heart cole richardson adam mcgill jared mcclure in fifth chris porch in six wesley wolf's seventh john guada in eighth ninth josh mare and still not checked in yet but getting credit for tenth lace at the moment bryce and neal in that xc1 pro class that's going to do it for us here at racer tv and our atv racing coverage of course we'll be back tomorrow with more live coverage of the two-wheel action it all gets underway around one o'clock eastern time hope to see you all back again tomorrow for all of us here at racer tv mikey wayne's my co-announcer i'm rodney tomlin have a great day everybody you

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Published: Sat Mar 06 2021