Monday Morning Coffee

By Billy Rainford

Well, I finally made it back to London. It’s hard to believe that the trip that started over a month ago has ended up right back in my little home office where it started. I’m looking out the window at a snow-covered backyard instead of looking out to see which Pro rider was showing up to ride at Viney Ranch in Murrieta, California. But as some girl named Dorothy once said repeatedly, “There’s no place like home.”

On Saturday night after the Supercross, I worked away in the Photo Den in US Bank Stadium and then hit the road to make it past Chicago on night one. Nope. I made it until about 12:30 and that was all I had in me.

Fortunately, the weather was great on Sunday morning and the drive home around the bottom of Lake Michigan was up around 10C and the wind finally died down in the afternoon.

As you can see, I’m running a little late this morning. It’s already after my usual noon eastern deadline. I hope you’ll forgive me this once…

I’ve still got a lot of things to talk about from the first round of the 250 East SX series so let’s get to a few results and then I’ll get to it.

Big Buck GCNN Results

We had 2 Canadians racing up near the front on the weekend in South Carolina for the Big Buck GNCC. Our off-road and MX superstars, Shelby Turner and Tyler Medaglia, were back in action.

You can read their race report HERE, but there’s no mention of either Canuck, except for the opening start photo with #515 Medaglia almost grabbing the holeshot.

2021 GNCC Series
18. WXC – Bike – Class Points	RND 1
Place	Make	Nbr	Name	Finish	Total Points
1	YAM	650	RACHAEL ARCHER	1	30
2	HQV	229	TAYLA JONES	2	25
3	KTM	444	KORIE STEEDE	3	21
4	KTM	646	SHELBY A TURNER	4	18
5	YAM	212	PRESTIN RAINES	5	16
6	KAW	777	JOCELYN BARNES	6	15
7	HON	870	EDEN NETELKOS	7	14
8	HQV	843	SHERYL B HUNTER	8	13
9	KAW	310	KAYLA ONEILL	9	12
10	KTM	992	SAVANNAH KIPP	10	11
11	KTM	406	TAYLOR JOHNSTON	11	10
12	HQV	328	ELIZABETH PEREZ	12	9
13	GAS	417	RACHEL GUTISH	13	8

Shelby just missed the podium and summed up her day here on her Instagram page:

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A post shared by Shelby Turner (@shelby50turner)

2021 GNCC Series
01. XC1 Open Pro – Bike – Class Points	RND 1
Place	Make	Nbr	Name	Finish	Total Points
1	KTM	001	BENJAMIN M KELLEY	1	30
2	KAW	004	JOSH V STRANG	2	25
3	HQV	003	JORDAN ASHBURN	3	21
4	KTM	206	JOSHUA M TOTH	4	18
5	HQV	739	TREVOR BOLLINGER	5	16
6	HQV	342	CRAIG B DELONG	6	15
7	GAS	314	GRANT BAYLOR	7	13
8	KTM	440	JOSEP GARCIA	8	12
9	YAM	514	STEWARD BAYLOR JR	9	10
10	BET	770	STEVE HOLCOMBE	10	7
11	GAS	212	RICKY A RUSSELL	11	2

As you can see, Tyler’s name doesn’t appear in the results. That’s because he had a weird mechanical and was unable to finish. Here’s his post from Instagram:

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A post shared by Tyler Medaglia (@t_medaglia)

Next round is at Hog Waller in Palatka, Florida, on March 5th and 6th after the Daytona Supercross.

Full results HERE.

Supercross Highlights

In case you didn’t have a chance to watch the broadcast…like me:

The series heads to Arlington, Texas, this weekend.

Julien Benek Minneapolis

Guillaume St Cyr Minneapolis

I did a daylong video recap with #484 Tanner Ward that I’ll get to work on here right after I press SUBMIT on this Monday Morning Coffee.

I assume you’ve all seen his terrifying crash where he got out of control and ended up jumping into the camera cable beside the triple? Well, if not, here’s the video I got of it. I didn’t even realize he’d crashed because I just followed him off the jump looking at my small camera screen and turned to get one of the next Canadians to ride by. It wasn’t until I turned and saw him on the ground that I even knew.

I got a message from Jared Lesher‘s mechanic, Michael Shaw, and he said he had a camera mounted on Jared’s bike behind the front plate and captured the crash and will post it up when he gets to his laptop. Keep an eye out for that!

Screengrab he sent:

OK, let me get going on the Tanner video. Have a great week, everyone.