AMSOIL GRAND NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY SERIES, PRESENTED BY MAXXIS
BY JEN KENYON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEN HILL
A
nd the story continues.
The battle has been two
years in the making. With
a combined 19 wins through the
last 20 races, and two GNCC
National Championships in the
last three years, Factory FMF/
KTM teammates Charlie Mullins
and Kailub Russell are poised to,
once again, battle to the very end
in hopes of walking away with a
second GNCC title, something
that hasn't been done since Paul
Whibley's second XC1 Pro Cham-
pionship in 2012, and before that
it was David Knight who captured
his second title in 2008.
The 2014 AMSOIL AMA Grand
National Cross Country Series
presented by Maxxis reached its
halfway point over the weekend
with round seven of the 13-race
series, which took place in Ma-
sontown, West Virginia. Mullins
entered Sunday's Rocky Moun-
tain ATV/MC Mountaineer Run
GNCC with a slight upper hand
over his teammate, carrying a
pair of consecutive wins, along
with a 12-point lead, into the
seventh round. However, just as
Mullins fought his way back into
championship contention from
a three-race deficit earlier in the
season, Russell rebutted with a
big win to gain five points on Mul-
lins' lead in the championship
standings.
Russell's fourth victory of the
season came in a dominant fash-
ion, as the reigning champ stole
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Paul Whibley (5)
leads Charlie
Mullins (112), Josh
Strang (4), Andrew
Delong (10) and the
rest of the XC1 Pro-
class through the
first turn.
Kailub Russell takes Mountaineer Run wins in a see-saw battle for the GNCC title
