| GNCC Quick Fill Excerpt Recapping River Ranch Women's Class |
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Quick Fill #9: This Week in GNCC
 Welcome to Quick Fill, Where do we go from here? We go racing. Congrats out to new KTM recruit in the Women's Class, Maria Forsberg, who won in her first shot. Was also cool to see MXer Sarah Whitmore out there, and Tarah Geiger told me she was going to race with fiancé David "2007 and 2008 GNCC Champion" Knight starring as her unbelievably overqualified mechanic, but I never saw them. Two of the top female racers in the country, Sarah Whitmore and Maria Forsberg, were paired up as teammates under the KTM tent at River Ranch and the two ladies hit it off right from the get-go. As a matter of fact, they kind of look like sisters and they were even starting to act a little like sisters by the time the weekend was over. Sarah was riding her first-ever GNCC at River Ranch, as a part of a promotion she is doing with KTM, which has her riding one of each of the different disciplines that KTM participates in. After River Ranch, Sarah was making the one-hour drive to Daytona to ride the Alligator National Enduro. Being from Michigan, Sarah is no stranger to sand, and it showed in her performance on Tuesday, although being a Moto-Girl she's not used to the longer races.  Photo By: Shan Moore Sarah and Maria equal double trouble in the KTM pits! Maria, on the other hand, is from the state of Washington and is not that accustomed to riding sand, however she likes the longer off-road races. For 2010, Maria is an official member of the KTM off-road team, the first women to ever have that honor. "I'm really excited to be part of the team," Forsberg told me. "I wanted to wash my bike but they wouldn't let me do anything - they do it all for me. That's the coolest thing I've ever been a part of." As far as riding with Sarah, Maria added, "I'm so excited to be riding with Sarah, she is the nicest girl to be around."  Click here to see full article on GNCC website
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