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The 2024 AMA Supercross Championship was the 51st season of off-road stadium motorcycle racing in the United States.. Comprising 17 rounds, the series ran from January until May, crowning supercross champions in both the 250cc and 450cc classes, concluding with the Salt Lake City round on May 11. [1]
Supercross racing classifications are governed by the displacement of the motorcycle's engine. They were based on two-stroke engines until 2006, when four-stroke engines replaced two-stroke engines. From 2007 until 2012, a formula nomenclature similar to IndyCar was used, with the 450cc class known as Supercross and 250cc as Supercross Lites.
Around 40 riders qualify for each Supercross round. Heat races and LCQs are used to bring the field down to 22 riders for a points-paying main event for each round. A main event is 20 minutes plus 1 lap for the 450 class and 15 minutes plus 1 lap for the 250 class. There is no 250 Supercross national champion like there is for motocross.
The 2023 season was the first 450cc supercross championship for Chase Sexton. This was also the first 4 stroke, 450cc championship for Honda and the first time in 20 years that Honda won the premier class of supercross since Ricky Carmichael in 2003 [1] The championship formed the first part of the inaugural SuperMotocross World Championship. [2]
The 2023 AMA Supercross Championship was the 50th season of off-road stadium motorcycle racing in the United States. Comprising 17 rounds, the series ran from January until May, crowning supercross champions in both the 250cc and 450cc classes, concluding with the Salt Lake City round on May 13.
However, after an injury sustained during the 2023 AMA Supercross Championship Tomac did not defend his title. [2] In the 250 class, Jett Lawrence went into the season as the defending champion, after winning his second 250 title the previous season. [3] However, Lawrence moved up to the 450MX class, which meant he did not defend his title.
The SuperMotocross World Championship (official name as AMA SuperMotocross Championship) is the premier combined discipline of American off-road motorcycle racing. [1] [2] [3] Conceived in 2023 after the AMA Supercross Championship lost its FIM World Championship status, the series consists of the aforementioned Supercross series and the AMA Motocross Championship, followed by two playoff ...
The 2019 AMA Supercross Championship was an American motorcycle racing championship that took place from January 5, 2019 - May 4, 2019 over 17 rounds at various stadiums across the United States. Cooper Webb , riding a KTM , won the championship in the 450cc class while Dylan Ferrandis won in the 250cc Western Regional class and Chase Sexton ...