The Moose Racing Unadilla GNCC hosted yet another classic "Killer B's" battle with Chris Borich and Bill Ballance, and this time Borich appeared to have the upper hand. The battle got so intense that Ballance decided to slow down and protect his points lead. Borich seemed to have a win in hand, until he ran into mechanical problems just a few miles from the finish.
"Man I just can't get any luck," said Borich. "A few laps from the end, it was sputtering and I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it to the pits. So I pulled into the pit early and got some fuel, and then I stopped in the pits and got some more. I thought I could make it, but I couldn't. I don't know what was up, I think it was a fuel problem."
Ballance happily rode past to take yet another win. Now he is in position to lock up his seventh GNCC ATV Title in two weeks in Ohio.
"Chris and I got out front and it kind of seemed like the old days," said Ballance of the classic Killer B's battle. "Chris was really hauling today and he's in a position where he's down in the points and he needs to get a win. He was pushing really hard. On that last lap there I could see that he was smoking. And I thought we were both riding on the edge and I have a 28 point lead. I really need to cool it and just finish second in this race. I think his motor went down, it was smoking really bad, it was hard for me to even ride behind him without sitting 30 feet back there waiting for it to clear up."
The Borich problems opened the door for Chris Jenks to put the GT Thunder Honda back on the podium with second place. "I just want to apologize to my sponsors for not putting in results in the last two races," said Jenks, who has won two races this year but has ran into bad luck lately. "The race went pretty well. I think I was fourth in the woods. I hooked up with William (Yokley). I just got a little bit behind Chris and Bill. I just didn't have it for them today, they were riding phenomenal."
Pro rookie Adam McGill put in a hard charge late to get to third place, his second podium of the season. "I was just trying to ride hard," said McGill, 19. "You have to just keep your head down. We got into a bottle neck and I got out of there with Duane (Johnson), and I figured I must have been close to the front. We hooked up and I got around him. Then I saw Borich on the motocross track, and he was stopped. Then I came around and the board said third and I was like "Freaking right!" I guess I can't thank him enough! Let's get another one!"
Johnson took another consistent finish with fourth, while Borich managed to fix his machine and finish fifth. He was frustrated to have worked so hard to come up short late in the game. "I don't know what was happening today," said Borich. "It just seemed like I could pull away whenever I wanted to. I came over the hill with two miles to go and it shut off on me. It was maybe a minute I had pulled on him at that point. I've been working really hard, but this championship got away from me this year. I'm not going to let this put me down, I am going to come back out and show these boys what's up."