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The 2025 AMA Supercross Championship is the 52nd season of off-road stadium motorcycle racing in the United States. Comprising 17 rounds, the series will run from January until May, crowning supercross champions in both the 250cc and 450cc classes, concluding with the Salt Lake City round on May 10.
The 2025 AMA Supercross Championship is the 52nd season of off-road stadium motorcycle racing in the United States. Comprising 17 rounds, the series runs from January until May, crowning supercross champions in both the 250cc and 450cc classes, concluding with the Salt Lake City round on May 10. [ 1 ]
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 ...
In 1972 Mike Goodwin and Terry Tiernan, the president of the AMA, put on one of these stadium races in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The race was dubbed as the Super Bowl of Motocross. Eventually this form of racing evolved into its own sport and series with the name Supercross which was a shortening of the original "Super Bowl of Motocross".
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]
The 2024 AMA Motocross Championship season is the 53rd AMA Motocross National Championship season, the premier motocross series in USA. Jett Lawrence goes into the season as the defending champion in the 450 class, after winning every race on the way to title in 2023 .
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The unique championship format was successful in attracting racers who were competing in other series. Examples include Ben Bostrom, Eric Bostrom, and Jake Zemke (AMA Superbike), Chris Carr, Joe Kopp, Jay Shelton and Roger Lee Hayden (AMA Flat Track), and Grant Langston (AMA Motocross). In addition, many riders who had retired from competition ...