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The 2020 AMA Supercross Championship is an American motorcycle racing championship that started January 4, 2020, and ended June 21, 2020. Ten of the 17 rounds had been completed when the season was suspended on March 12, 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following riders are defending champions having won their respective classes in 2020: 450 SX – Eli Tomac (Kawasaki) 250 SX West – N/A (Dylan Ferrandis has moved up to the 450 SX class with Yamaha) 250 SX East – N/A (Chase Sexton has moved up to the 450 SX class with Honda)
McAdoo made his professional supercross debut in 2017, starting in the 250SX East class of the AMA Supercross Championship for the Smartop Motoconcepts Honda team. By the third round of the series in Toronto, he was able to record his first top-ten finish before sustaining a cut to his hand at the fourth round which required stitches.
The first motocross race held on a race track inside a stadium took place on August 28, 1948, at Buffalo Stadium in the Paris suburb of Montrouge. [5] As the popularity of motocross surged in the United States in the late 1960s, Bill France added a professional motocross race to the 1971 Daytona Beach Bike Week schedule. [5]
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.
FIM World Supercross Championship points will be awarded for each of the three Main Event races. Points will follow the traditional supercross format of 25, 22 and 20, 18 and 16 points respectively for first through fifth place, with the remaining 17 riders earning from 15 points to 1 point, depending on where they finish.
This switch saw Hampshire pick up two podium finishes across the first four rounds of the 2020 AMA Supercross Championship in the 250SX East class. After missing the remaining supercross rounds due to surgery on his knee, Hampshire began the 2020 AMA National Motocross Championship with second overall in the 250 class at the opening round.
Justin Cooper (born August 31, 1997) is an American professional motorcycle racer who competes in AMA Supercross and Motocross. [1] He is the 2021 AMA supercross 250cc West champion & was a member of the winning USA team at the 2022 Motocross Des Nations .