The events are shorter, the TV exposure is greater, and the competition is stiffer.
Chad Reed, though, is returning to the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship because of what he lacks, not what the series has gained.
“It’s always been my weakest link,” the two-time Supercross champion says. “I’m just looking for my first win. I feel I can win the championship.”
The return of Reed, who hasn’t raced a full motocross season since 2006, is a boon for the series, which rides a wave heading into Sunday’s season opener at Glen Helen Raceway in Devore, Calif …Â Details
The 2009 season has been one of change across the motocross landscape as new faces have moved to new places and the sport of motocross enters into a period of growth fueled by new ownership. After one of the greatest AMA Supercross Championship battles in the history of the sport, dirt-bike racing in America is carrying considerable momentum heading into the prestigious Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship.
Undergoing its own fair bit of change, motocross in the U.S. is now managed by MX Sports Pro Racing and their partners in The Alliance of Action Sports. With new leadership at the helm, revolutionary initiatives are already transforming the sport, while providing more access and coverage than ever before.
The most significant change from the traditional format of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship is … Details
The 2009 pro motocross season begins Saturday with a race at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino and a title chase that’s wide open.
James Stewart, who won the championship in dominant fashion last year and then captured this year’s Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series title for the second time, is not scheduled to compete in motocross this year. (Supercross is the stadium version of off-road motorcycle racing, or motocross.)
But Stewart’s arch-rival Chad Reed, the Suzuki rider and two-time supercross champ who fell four points shy of Stewart for this year’s supercross crown, announced Tuesday that he will compete in the 12-race Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship…Â Details
Hawk on podium, Russell takes XC2
Team FMF/Makita Suzuki turned the Mountain Ridge round of the Can-Am Grand National Cross Country Series into a private affair, with Josh Strang defeating his teammate Charlie Mullins after a dramatic three-hour battle in the rocks, mud, forests and fields of Western Pennsylvania. Am-Pro FMF Yamaha’s Barry Hawk finished third to collect his first podium of the season, while Shock Doctor KTM’s Kailub Russell won the XC2 Lites class ahead of Monster Energy/Andrews Yamaha’s Jason Thomas and Shock Doctor KTM’s Cory Buttrick.
Strang’s win marked his fourth in the last five GNCC races, and also the second time this season that he and Mullins finished 1-2. In contrast, championship rival Paul Whibley had a tough day. The New Zealander smashed a waterpump cover and put a hole in his radiator, but still dug out a seventh-place finish in the XC1 class. Strang now holds the …Â Details