Riding ITP Holeshot tires front and rear on his HMF Honda, privateer Brian Wolf did the seemingly impossible for the second year in a row. At the extremely challenging Snowshoe GNCC in West Virginia, the XC2 Pro-Am class rider once again claimed the overall win, beating numerous factory-backed XC1 Pro riders on elapsed time. It was also once again a very lucrative performance for the Medina, Ohio, native, as he collected another $10,000 check from MotorcycleUSA.com.

Said Wolf after his popular victory, “This is crazy. I never thought it was possible to win this two years in a row. I guess you just play the game and see what happens. This is the toughest race of the year and it's just a matter of who can play the game the longest. Nobody wants to run hard though this stuff and take chances and we built this bike so we could run hard and take chances and that's what we did today."

It was Wolf’s third win of the year in the XC2 Pro-Am division, which extended his points lead in this class for 2010. The Snowshoe round of the Grand National Cross Country season was the ninth of 13 events on the schedule. The series now takes its traditional summer break, and will return to action in September.

Photos by Harlen Foley and Kenny Hill, ATVRiders.com.

Riders line up in rows for a staggered start on the pavement at Snowshoe. Wolf (341) can be seen at the far left.


Wolf slid into the XC2 Pro-Am lead shortly after the start and never looked back. Two hours later, he was ahead of all but one XC1 Pro rider and the entire XC2 Pro-Am field.


The Snowshoe GNCC serves up a full plate of highly challenging terrain, but Wolf’s ITP Holeshot tires ate it up.


Wolf physically crossed the finish line in a close second place, but since he had started a minute and thirty seconds behind the XC1 Pro class, his total elapsed time was nearly a minute better than the XC1 Pro winner.


The Snowshoe GNCC has been very, very good to privateer Brian Wolf.