After three months of high drama, memorable action and the world’s premier motocross athletes laying it all on the line, the 2010 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship will come to an exciting conclusion this Saturday, September 4 with the inaugural Pala Motocross National, from Pala Raceway in Pala, Calif. The facility, located in San Diego’s North County, is the newest venue of American motocross and marks the return of the motocross nationals to San Diego County for the first time in 28 years.
For nearly three decades, the avid motocross community in San Diego County has been void of an AMA Motocross national. Not since the legendary Carlsbad Raceway in the ’70s and ’80s have the world’s best riders descended upon the fifth-most-populous county in the United States for a major outdoor motocross event. Pala Raceway is … Details
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (September 7, 2010) - After three months of high drama, memorable action and the world’s premier motocross athletes laying it all on the line, the 2010 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship will come to an exciting conclusion this Saturday, September 11 with the inaugural Pala Motocross National, from Pala Raceway in Pala, Calif. The facility, located in San Diego’s North County, is the newest venue of American motocross and marks the return of the motocross nationals to San Diego County for the first time in 28 years.
For nearly three decades, the avid motocross community in San Diego County has been void of an AMA Motocross national. Not since the legendary Carlsbad Raceway in the ’70s and ’80s have the world’s best riders descended upon the fifth-most-populous county in the United States for … Details
DELMONT, Pa. (September 4, 2010) - The 2010 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship hosted Round 11 of the 12-race season on Saturday with the annual Labor Day tradition that is the FMF Steel City National from Steel City Raceway. Thousands of the most avid east coast motocross fans lined the fences to watch longtime veteran and fan favorite Kevin Windham, of Centreville, Miss., take the overall win in the 450 Class for Honda Red Bull Racing. With the 250 Class championship coming down to the wire, GEICO Powersports Honda’s Trey Canard, of Shawnee, Okla., captured his fifth overall victory in the last six races.
After taking a supercross-only approach to his career, Windham returned to the outdoor nationals at Round 7 from Millville, Minn., when he replaced the injured Davi Millsaps … Details
Erik Buell Racing has quietly been “tipping” sites off to the fact that Buell’s record label, Rat Pak Records, is selling t-shirts for a Erik Buell Racing 1190RS motorcycle. What is the 1190RS you ask? “The 1190RS will be the new street bike from Erik Buell Racing! The design is currently in the pre-production / testing stage and is not yet available for public sale,” says the website (Asphalt & Rubber brought you the first teaser of the 1190RS way back in July). However, a video of the pre-pre-production 1190RS will be up on September 14th, officially making this a teasing of a teaser video (are you still with us?).
Before you Buell fans start getting all in a tizzy, we have to break the news that the hype being generated about the EBR 1190RS is more about raising money for Erik Buell Racing, than announcing an upcoming motorcycle. Erik Buell & Co. have been … Details
Erik Buell Racing 1190RR w/turn signals & radiator fans
After putting Wisconsin on notice that it was shopping around for other places to build its motorcycles, Harley-Davdison has reached a tentative agreement with local labor unions that would keep the Bar and Shield brand in The Cheese State. Harley and union officials have not disclosed the terms of the deal, but both the Harley-Davidson and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers are … Details
Pala Raceway is the newest track added to the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship Series. The day before the top pro’s of the world take to the track for the final race in 2010 top athletes from BMX, Skate, MTB, Snow, Wake, Diving, Kiteboarding, Surfing, Off Road Truck Racing and many more will get a chance to experience what it’s really like to ride and race on a pro prepped national caliber track … Details
KTM, the market leader in off-road motorcycles, has signed Roger DeCoster, one of the true icons of the sport of motocross, to take over the management of the company’s new factory team in the USA. Work now immediately begins to prepare the team for the 2011 racing season in all of the major US competitions.
The signing of DeCoster represents a major step forward in vaulting the Austrian company into the global arena. KTM has already reached the top level of the sport in Europe and the World Championship GP Series and will now also be a dominant force in US competition … Details
