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2021 Glen Helen NGPC
2021 Glen Helen NGPC Report — The Chaparral Motorsports, Precision Concepts, Kawasaki team headed out to the 2021 Glen Helen NGPC for the third round of the series over the weekend. Hosting club, Prairie Dogs MC laid out a fast, flowing course that navigated much of the Glen Helen landscape. The course included the motocross…
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2021 Taft NGPC Report — After a two-week break from racing, the 2021 AMA National Grand Prix Championship resumed with the second round in Taft, CA. The Honolulu Hills motocross track would be the usual focal point for the course. From there, the track headed out into the rolling hills for a flowing, undulating off-road…
Read More2021 Mesquite NGPC
2021 Mesquite NGPC Report — Following the conclusion of a very brief off-season break, racers made the trek out to Mesquite, NV for the opening round of the 2021 AMA National Grand Prix championship. The promoters had to make a quick pivot from the originally planned location of Delano, CA. After Delano didn’t pan out…
Read More2020 Havasu NGPC
2020 Havasu NGPC Report — After an intense schedule, packed with ten rounds in just fourteen weekends, the grand prix racing season finally rolled into the 2020 finale: the Lake Havasu NGPC. The racecourse was changed quite a bit from the WORCS finale the previous weekend. The small peninsula doesn’t offer much room for creativity…
Read More2020 29 Palms 2 NGPC
2020 29 Palms 2 NGPC Report — As the 2020 racing season nears its conclusion, the PC Kawasaki team made the trek back to 29 Palms for the penultimate NGPC round. The hosting Hilltoppers club made a few changes to the course for the second go-round this year. First, they changed the direction of, and…
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2020 Glen Helen 2 NGPC Report — The PC Kawasaki team pulled into Glen Helen for the second time this NGPC season. In contrast to the wet conditions back in March, the lack of recent rain left a hard, dry base to the course. In spite of this, the hosting club did well to lay…
Read More2020 Primm NGPC
2020 Primm NGPC Report — The Primm NGPC normally takes place toward the end of May, as the weather dries and the winds pick up. With this year’s event having been moved to mid-October, the temperatures were a bit milder. Moreover, the typical desert winds were calm. The result was arguably the best Primm NGPC…
Read More2020 29 Palms 1 NGPC
2020 29 Palms 1 NGPC Report — The AMA National Grand Prix Championship went to 29 Palms for the first of two rounds being held at the venue in the season’s run-in. There’s one thing that the 29 Palms racecourse offers in abundance: speed. Easily the fastest course on the circuit, racers spend most of…
Read More2020 Idaho NGPC
2020 Idaho NGPC Report — After a long hiatus, the West-Coast GP season got back underway for what will be a frenetic schedule of racing to close out 2020. The AMA NGPC series headed just south of Napoleon Dynamite’s home of Preston, ID for their fourth round. What awaited the riders was a pretty unique…
Read More2020 Glen Helen NGPC
Glen Helen Raceway is a popular stop on the Grand Prix circuit. As a favored practice venue for many of the Pro and Pro 2 class riders, there aren’t many patches of dirt that racers haven’t ridden over. That being the case, the hosting Prairie Dogs MC made a few changes to the direction and sequence of the different sections on offer. This made for a well-received racecourse. Additionally—and for the seventh year in a row—the grand prix was hit with rain…
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