In a season finale that featured 2,751 total riders (1,731 bikes and 1,020 ATVs), the last checkered flag of the 2022 AMA Grand National Cross Country Series flew at the Ironman GNCC in Indiana. Coastal GasGas Factory Racing’s Ricky Russell was the first across the line.
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