Press Release

FMF Makita Suzuki's Josh Strang Takes Third Victory of the Season at Steele Creek GNCC



Morganton, NC – March 22, 2010 – The skies looked ominous as the
riders lined up for the start of the Steele Creek round of the 2010
Grand National Cross Country Championship, and with the fall of the
starter flag, the rain began to fall too. FMF Makita Suzuki’s Josh
Strang didn’t let the downpour faze him, however, as he launched his
fuel-injected RM-Z450 off the start to take the $250 Motorcycle-USA
holeshot award. Strang was under constant pressure from the second place
rider, but he managed to defend his first-place position for the rest
of the three-hour event.

The conditions worsened as the race
progressed, with the rains turning the entire course to mud. By the
sixth lap the surface was so slick that one of the larger hills on the
course was almost completely blocked with stranded riders. “I turned the
corner and the hill was just covered with people,” commented Josh. It
got to the point where race officials decided to stop the race, send the
riders back to the pits, and revert the scoring back to the previous
lap. According to the official scoring, Josh led the race wire to wire,
and finished eleven seconds ahead of the second place finisher. “I led
every lap and was comfortable with the conditions,” said Strang. “I’m
very happy with the way things turned out.”

In the Sportsman A
class, FMF Makita Suzuki’s Rodney Smith battled it out in the mud aboard
his all-new, fuel-injected RMX450Z. Rodney fought his way to a
second-place finish.

Both Josh and Rodney are looking forward to
racing their Suzukis at Round 3 of the GNCC series taking place at Big
Buck in Union, South Carolina, on April 10th.

Steele
Creek XC1 Pro Class Results
1. Josh Strang

2. Chrisopher Bach
3.
Charles Mullins
4. Paul Whibley
5. Cory Buttrick
6. Glenn
Kearney
7. Homero Diaz
8. Nathan Kanney
9. Kenneth Gilbert
10.
Eric Bailey

GNCC XC1 Overall Points
1. Josh Strang 90

2.
Chrisopher Bach 59
3. Charles Mullins 57
4. Cory Buttrick 49
5.
Paul Whibley 47
6. Kailub Russell 46
7. Jason Thomas 40
8.
Jesse Robinson 32
9. Nathan Kanney 31
10. Glenn Kearney 29

 



Josh Strang is
proving he's got the skills and the bike to win races. He got the
holeshot and never looked back.


Strang took the win
at Steele Creek, his third win out of three races this season.


Rodney Smith and his RMX450Z are
becoming fast friends in the Sportsman A class.





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