VIDEO-Highlights – GNCC Pro Bike IRONMAN
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ERGEBNISSE / RESULTS – GNCC Round 12 Ironman 2020
| Ironman Crawfordsville, IN – Round 12 |
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| 01. XC1 Open Pro – Bike – Class Results | ||||||
| Place | Nbr | Name | Hometown | Brand | Laps | Elapsed |
| 1 | 114 | JOSH V STRANG | AUSTRALIA, // | KAW | 7 | 03:04:50.256 |
| 2 | 514 | STEWARD BAYLOR JR | HODGES, SC | YAM | 7 | 03:04:54.798 |
| 3 | 530 | BENJAMIN M KELLEY | HARWINTON, CT | KTM | 7 | 03:04:56.330 |
| 4 | 001 | KAILUB K RUSSELL | BOONVILLE, NC | KTM | 7 | 03:05:04.275 |
| 5 | 523 | LAYNE MICHAEL | BOONVILLE, NC | YAM | 7 | 03:06:26.860 |
| 6 | 314 | GRANT BAYLOR | HONEA PATH, SC | SHR | 7 | 03:08:04.078 |
| 7 | 127 | JORDAN ASHBURN | LIVINGSTON, TN | KAW | 7 | 03:10:31.400 |
| 8 | 410 | ANDREW R DELONG | BIRDSBORO, PA | HON | 7 | 03:16:04.914 |
| 9 | 989 | THADDEUS DUVALL | WILLIAMSTOWN, WV | HQV | 7 | 03:17:08.579 |
| 10 | 027 | EVAN EARL | BLACKSBURG, SC | KAW | 6 | 03:05:15.690 |
| 11 | 930 | TALAN S HANSEN | WINAMAC, IN | KTM | 5 | 03:26:05.819 |
| 12 | 416 | PARKER SMITH | ROCHESTER, IL | KAW | 4 | 02:15:13.192 |
Kailub Russel – IRONMAN Race VLOG
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Rider points / Tabellenstand – GNCC 2020 after 12 of 13 rounds / nach 12 von 13 Rennen
| 2020 GNCC Series Bike p.m. | ||||||||||||||||
| 01. XC1 Open Pro – Bike – Class Points | RND 1 | RND 2 | RND 3 | RND 4 | RND 5 | RND 6 | RND 7 | RND 8 | RND 9 | RND 10 | RND 11 | RND 12 | ||||
| Place | Make | Nbr | Name | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Finish | Total Points |
| 1 | KTM | 001 | KAILUB K RUSSELL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 295 |
| 2 | KAW | 114 | JOSH V STRANG | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 246 | |
| 3 | KAW | 127 | JORDAN ASHBURN | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 185 |
| 4 | YAM | 514 | STEWARD BAYLOR JR | 4 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 158 | |||||
| 5 | KTM | 530 | BENJAMIN M KELLEY | 12 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 153 | ||||
| 6 | SHR | 314 | GRANT BAYLOR | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 152 |
| 7 | YAM | 523 | LAYNE MICHAEL | 7 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 98 | ||
| 8 | KTM | 206 | JOSHUA M TOTH | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 81 | ||||||
| 9 | HON | 410 | ANDREW R DELONG | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DNF | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 64 |
| 10 | HQV | 212 | RICKY A RUSSELL | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 59 | ||||||||
| 11 | HQV | 989 | THADDEUS DUVALL | 11 | 4 | 9 | 23 | |||||||||
| 12 | YAM | 998 | TODD KELLETT | 6 | 11 | |||||||||||
| 13 | KAW | 392 | TYLER D MEDAGLIA | 13 | 7 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 14 | HQV | 121 | CORY BUTTRICK | 9 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 15 | KTM | 431 | DANTE OLIVEIRA | 6 | 7 | 11 | 5 | |||||||||
Wow. What an incredible weekend at Ironman. We say it time and time again that Ironman is the biggest and most popular event of the year, and time after time it continues to prove that point. This one was no different. Coming in at just 17 riders short of the previous record, this year’s Ironman was yet again one for the ages. While it didn’t hit the all-time record, it came pretty close and we did have the largest turnout of AM Bikes, Youth Bikes and Micro Bikes of all-time!
That came with good reason, as it was a great weekend for racing. Sure, it could have been just a little bit warmer out but overall the temperatures were pretty darn good and I really don’t think you could have created better dirt conditions. Indiana had been incredibly dry for quite some time prior to the event, and then it rained a whopping three inches Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. Thursday and Friday saw temperatures into the 70s, before dropping back down Friday evening, which helped to dry out the muddy spots and create just about the most perfect dirt you could ask for.
Simply put, if you missed out on this running of the Ironman, you very well may have missed out on the best Ironman conditions of all-time, or at the very least it was one of the top three best. The epic conditions likely lent a hand in the incredible racing we saw as well. From the first lap of the weekend until the end there was plenty of awesome racing to watch unfold, and if you weren’t having fun at Ironman I’m really not sure what the problem was!
The PM bike race just may have produced some of the best racing of the weekend. Early on it appeared as if Steward Baylor was on his way to his fourth consecutive win, and even when Josh Strang worked his way into the lead on lap four, Baylor was still right on his rear wheel through the closing portions of the race. Unfortunately for Baylor, he would find himself stuck on Ironman Hill on the final lap. He lost a little bit of time getting turned around and taking another pass up the hill, but he would put the hammer down and try to charge back to Strang’s rear wheel.
Strang was able to settle into a cruise mode and even with a hard-charging Baylor behind him; he just rode calm and collected into the finish to take the win. Of course, Baylor was not only trying to catch Strang but he was also trying to stay ahead of Ben Kelley and Kailub Russell, who were engaged in their own battle and also right on Baylor’s heels. After three hours and four minutes of racing, Strang would take the win ahead of Baylor, Kelley and Russell with the entire top four separated by just over ten seconds!
While all of this was going on, the XC2 guys were battling back and forth as well. Lyndon Snodgrass, Johnny Girroir and Craig Delong had all swapped the lead throughout the race. Girroir would run into some issues and drop to fifth, then while trying to charge back to the front he would suffer a hard crash and actually knock himself unconscious. He ended up limping into the finish for an 11th place, which would hurt his point standings, dropping him from first to third in the XC2 class. With one round remaining, Delong holds the XC2 lead with 9 points over Mike Witkowski and 16 points over Girroir.
Speaking of that one remaining round, yesterday Ryan Echols and I drove out to CJ Raceway, site of the Buckwheat 100, and scoped out the property a bit. Ryan has raced some local events there in the past, and I made a sweep lap on a dual sport bike at an NECXC event there a few years ago but scoping out property raw is a lot different. We learned a good bit about the place and it looks like this is going to be a pretty cool event.
If you’ve raced there before, I would expect it to feel like a totally different place. Obviously we’ll end up using a lot of the existing trails but we’ll likely end up creating some new ones as well and probably piece together something very different and a bit longer than local events there in the past. Some folks seem to be a little concerned about the parking, but we’re actually using a different entrance and a whole other section of field has been opened up for this event as well. Like I said, it won’t even feel like CJ Raceway.
Quelle / Source: GNCC
