Slightly Bent Racing Report
2014 GNCC – Round 4
Union, SC ~ Round 4 of the Grand National Cross Country Series takes us south to one of the oldest and most popular tracks on the circuit, the VP Racing Fuels Big Buck located on the beautiful open acreage of the Big Buck Farm. Since most of the team was glued to their weather apps all week after Steele Creek, we came to the conclusion that this was going to be a great weekend of racing! The track crew did an excellent job with the course layout this year. Sometimes when a venue has been on the schedule for as long as the Big Buck has you end up running out of fresh ideas, but that just wasn’t the case this year. All said and done I would describe this course as fast!!Kicking off the morning race was the #414 of Colton White on his Combs Powersports backed Honda. After not even making it off the line at Steele Creek, Colton had some catching up to do and that is exactly what he did. Colton took the holeshot and lead the Sport 15+ class the entire race to end his day with a 1st place and an astonishing 8th place overall. Moving along we have our lone Suzuki rider Daniel Gwinn in the 16-18C class. Daniel remained vigilant as he and the other top 5 riders battled it out for the first 3 laps until he made a bad line choice on the final lap that sent him back to 10th place for the day. Some people would let a decision like that ruin their day, but Daniel came back to the pit, admitted his mistake, and is already looking forward to Indiana. 35+C rider Jason Gautier had a few mechanical issues in his first 2 rounds but arrived in South Carolina ready to work. Ending his day with an 8th place, Jason has shown solid improvement so far this season and has his sights set upward. Wrapping up the morning classes is the #920 of Donnie Pruett and the Silver Masters 55+ class. Donnie stretched his legs and gave his Axis shocks a workout by finishing 2nd, mere seconds behind the top rider.