One of many updates and reminders for the upcoming AMA Pro Motocross Season!!

• May 19 - Hangtown Motocross Classic* - Sacramento, Calif.
• May 26 - Freestone Raceway* - Wortham, Texas
• June 2 - Thunder Valley Motocross* - Lakewood, Colo.
• June 9 - High Point Raceway - Mt. Morris, Pa.
• June 16 - Budds Creek Motocross - Mechanicsville, Md.
• July 7 - RedBud* - Buchanan, Mich.
• July 14 - Spring Creek Motocross* - Millville, Minn.
• July 21 - Washougal MX Park - Washougal, Wash.
• August 11 - Moto-X 338* - Southwick, Mass.
• August 18 - Unadilla - New Berlin, N.Y.
• September 1 - Steel City Raceway* - Delmont, Pa.
• September 8 - TBA* - Southern Calif.

Schedule Source: www.supercross.com

Lucas Oil extends motocross deal

Associated Press via espn.go.com

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Lucas Oil has signed a multiyear extension to remain the title sponsor of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship.

Terms of the deal were not announced on Monday.

Lucas Oil has been the title sponsor for AMA Motocross since 2009, and the series has seen its highest attendance and TV audiences over the past three years.

AMA Motocross recently signed a deal with NBC and NBC Sports Network to show 58 hours of race programming during the 2012 season, including 10 hours of live action. The 12-round season begins in May at the Hangtown Classic in Sacramento, Calif.

The series also announced it will undergo a rebranding effort that will include an updated series logo.

Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press via espn.go.com

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2012 AMA National Motocross Schedule

2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship Schedule:

• May 19 - Hangtown Motocross Classic - Rancho Cordova, CA
  Phone 1 800 HANGTOWN
  

• May 26 - Freestone Raceway - Wortham, TX
  Phone 1 877 77-CLICK
  

• June 2 - Thunder Valley Motocross - Lakewood, CO
  Phone 303 697-1003
  

• June 9 - High Point Raceway - Mt. Morris, PA
  Phone 304 284-0084
  

• June 16 - Budds Creek Motocross - Mechanicsville, MD
  Phone 301 475-2000
  

• July 7 - RedBud MX - Buchanan, MI
  Phone 269 695-6405
  

• July 14 - Spring Creek Motocross - Millville, MN
  Phone 507 753-2779
  

• July 21 - Washougal Motocross - Washougal, WA
  Phone 360 837-3975
  

• Aug 11 - Moto-X 338 - Southwick, MA
  Phone 413 569-6801
   

• Aug 18 - Unadilla Valley Sports Center - New Berlin, NY
  Phone 607 965-8784

• Sept 1 - Steel City Raceway - Delmont, PA
  Phone 304 284-0084
   

• Sept 8 - TBD - Southern California

AMA Motocross has a new TV deal with NBC Sports for 24 hours of race coverage during the 2012 season.

NBC Sports will show three live hours of programming and the NBC Sports Network, which will be renamed from Versus on Jan. 2, will have 21 hours, with 11 of those live.

The AMA Motocross season will feature 12 races in 2012, though the schedule has yet to be released.

Motocross has been shown on a variety of networks and was played on a one-week tape delay just a few years ago. Coverage was split between Speed and NBC Sports this past season.

According to MX Sports Pro Racing, Motocross' TV audience has quadrupled in three years.

SOURCE:  http://www.necn.com/11/15/11/Motocross-gets-new-TV-deal-for-2012/landing_nation.html?&apID=59c5da3058e64cbea6f5fc7ee6b53173

Reed started TwoTwo Motorsports from scratch one year ago and had limited resources. The team will now be housed at American Honda’s Californian Racing facility next door to the factory motocross team which will give access to state-of-the-art facilities in design to manufacturing.

Reed said the new deal will go a long way towards winning the AMA Supercross and Motocross titles.

"In some ways this feels like redemption," Reed said.

"In the beginning the support from American Honda was limited, which was completely understandable given we were a new team without any runs on the board."

"Our new relationship with American Honda holds so much potential and for me it is a money can’t buy partnership to be associated with a manufacturer that is as equally committed to winning as we are."

Reed has also signed highly-experienced motorcycle engineer Mike Gosselaar as Technical Director as well as Sergio Avento as Research and Development Manager.

Reed said having the right people on the team is important to back-up his on track performance.

"As a rider, I am responsible for my own performance and I expect to go out there and win, anything else is second best," Reed said.

"With a team situation there are so many other things that can affect an outcome, but it was the sheer hard work and dedication of my crew this year that ensured none of those factors influenced our performance."

"They worked extremely hard 24/7 to create a dynamic within the team that was second to none in the championship. It is the sort of dynamic you normally see within a team that has worked together for years."

"Recruiting Goose & Sergio will further strengthen that dynamic and provide the additional resources we need to continue building a solid infrastructure around the team," Reed said.

Reed will undergo testing in California testing with his TwoTwo Motorsports team as they prepare for the opening round of the 2012 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship which begins at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Saturday January 7, 2012.


source: http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sports/aussie-watch/australian-ama-motocross-rider-chad-reeds-twotwo-motorsports-gains-honda-factory-support/story-fn8am8xg-1226189959455

Racer Ryan Dungey signs up with the Red Bull/KTM Factory Race Team for the 2012 and 2013 AMA Pro Supercross and Motocross Championship Series…
by Red Bull, Oct 6, 2011

He may only be a tender 21 years old, but Ryan Dungey has already accomplished every career goal he has set for himself. In 2009, the American rider won the AMA Supercross Lites Western Regional Title and followed that up with the AMA Pro Motocross Championship 250cc class crown. That same year, he competed in the 2009 Motocross des Nations where he was one of three members of the winning US Team.

In 2010, he became the first rider in history to win both the AMA Supercross and AMA Pro Motocross Championship in his rookie year before again going on to lead the 2010 Motocross des Nations team to victory. Most recently, in mid-September, he captured yet another Motocross des Nations victory in France.

“I am excited to start something new and am ready for the challenge."

And now, Ryan is taking another huge leap forward in his career by signing up to the Red Bull/KTM Factory Race Team: “I’m looking forward to riding for the new Red Bull/KTM team and working again with Roger [DeCoster, Red Bull/KTM Team Manager],” said Ryan. “I am excited to start something new and am ready for the challenge.

“I like the way that KTM has backed Roger since he made the switch last year and I appreciate KTM’s goal of working hard to develop their race team to earn championships. I am making this switch to win races and work toward getting that championship for KTM.”

It’s a switch that’s being welcomed by the hard-working Red Bull/KTM team, with Roger DeCoster returning the love: “I am really happy to have Ryan Dungey join our team,” said DeCoster. “He and I have worked together for several years so we know each other well. Our past should help us get the best out of each other and put us in position to be legit championship contenders in the big bike class.”

The well-decorated rider’s first official race with the Red Bull/KTM Factory Team will be the opening round of the AMA Pro Supercross Championship Series on January 7, 2012, where he'll race the KTM 450 SX-F in the premier Supercross class.


SOURCE:  http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Article/Ryan-Dungey-Joins-Red-Bull-KTM-Team-021243097704418

Chad Reed AMA Motocross Interview 2011

September 11, 2011

After starting up his own team for 2011, Chad Reed's TwoTwo Motorsports has yielded amazing results, sitting third in the Motocross championship.

After starting the 2011 racing season with a big question mark, Chad Reed proved that he had what it takes to run with the big factory teams with his self-funded TwoTwo Motorsports effort. After running up front for much of this year’s Supercross championship Honda increased their support which saw him run a full-factory bike in the outdoor season. Reed didn’t disappoint putting in some phenomenal rides and looked like he could be a contender for the championship until some bad luck struck at Southwick, thereby taking him out of contention. We caught up with Reed a few weeks ago during the  2012 Honda CRF450R First Ride report from Racetown 395. In the interview he talks about a number of different topics including his death-defying Moto 2 crash at Millville, Minnesota.

TALK ABOUT THAT SUPERMAN MOTO 2 CRASH AT MILLVILLE.

Yeah it was nuts. It was like... business as usual, you know. We won the first one. I got a good start in the second one and I was trying to go for it. I made a pass for the lead and at that point I was like ‘sweet’. The next breath of air I’m flying through the air without a motorcycle and I’m thinking ‘what the hell just happened?’ It was brutal and scary actually. I was pretty beat up. The biggest thing was my groin and left hip were really sore. I didn’t have any breath either, I was really winded. I just tried to get back on the bike and do the best I can (he finished 14th). The next week, that was a tough weekend. I couldn’t regroup fast enough, I was hurting. Things are going well now and I’m back to 100%.

Reed made a quick recovery from a spectacular and potentially season ending crash at Millville.

DID YOU GET KNOCKED OUT IN THE CRASH?

I never went out at any point. I knew everything that happened... unfortunately [laughs] I just had to be careful. Every time I’d push I felt like I was going to throw up. It was a tough long moto, but six points is better than zero points.

PASSION FOR MOTOGP RACING.

I grew up in Australia during the Mick Doohan / Wayne Gardner era.  MotoGP always seemed like the ticket out of the country. Motocross guys it wasn’t a common thing that we were successful on leaving and actually staying away and achieving goals. Doohan I think won five world titles. At a point I really wanted to go road racing. I grew up less than a mile from Casey [Stoner]. We use to ride the bus to school. I know him really well and root for him every weekend. I’m a huge Rossi fan and also his crew are all Aussie guys. I love racing. Any form of motorsports I’m down with it. NASCAR, Formula 1, V8 Supercar, or MotoGP. It was a weekend off and I was migrating south to SoCal and it was on the way so I made a stop watched a good race, and got to see some good people.

HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN SPORTBIKES ON THE RACETRACK?

A little bit, not too much it’s fun though.

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF TWOTWO MOTORSPORTS?

The future of TwoTwo Motorsports looks bright with a multi-time champion at the helm and growing manufacturer support.

I think any business you always try and grow and expand it and try progress from year to year. What we’ve achieved this year already has been awesome. We want to go bigger and better next year. We’re working on that side of things. We’re trying to have it be successful and try and give it some stability while I’m here and beyond my racing career as well. There’s big plans, but as everything you need a budget so we’re working on that.

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH AMERICAN HONDA SEEMS TO BE WORKING WELL.

It is. First and foremost, I ended up riding their bike because I thought it was the best bike for me. At one point buying bikes and parts, and now we’re riding their full-blown factory bike for the outdoors. We’ve come a long way in a short amount of time. They’re great to work with. They’re really open to try and be creative and allow me to have my freedom but also represent Honda as the brand the best we can. It seems like we’re checking boxes off. We plan on staying with them for a long-time. We’re negotiating how long that will be right now. Hopefully, that will be wrapped up here soon and we’ll have a little more stability with a manufacturer over the next three years.

WHAT OTHER RACES ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO?

I’m going to need all four. We’ve got eight motos to go. Take each race as an individual one. My goal is to put myself in front of the two Ryans. That’s the goal. If I fall short of that this title is going to get away from me and I’ll end up losing it. I’ve just got to keep my head down and keep the goal in mind.

ARE YOU PLANNING ON RACING THE MONSTER ENERGY CUP IN LAS VEGAS?

Being the owner/racer can get tricky when it comes to planning your team's racing schedule and finding time to rest.

Right now we’re committed to doing it. Halfway through October, that leaves a month after des Nations to prepare for it. Ideally, I’d like to go to Australia and have some down time and come back end of October, beginning of November. Like every other athlete you want some downtime. It should be cool – it’s a million-dollar race – well it’s actually it’s not. The wording sounds cool. You’ve got to win all three races and even then it’s not a million dollars. The name is cool, but that’s about it.

WHAT’S THE STATE OF MOTORCYCLE RACING IN AUSTRALIA (REED WAS INVOLVED WITH AUSTRALIAN SUPERCROSS SERIES LAST YEAR)?

I’m not involved with that anymore. They had a direction they wanted to go, and I didn’t feel that represented the way I wanted it to go. And my name was so attached to it, so I didn’t feel it was as positive as I wanted it to be. So, I kind of walked away from that and chose to put my time and effort into TwoTwo Motorsports. I think Australian racing is on the fence – it could go one way or the other. From a fan's point of view – motorcycles have been my life, so I hope it does well and I hope it succeeds, but we’ll see. I think they’re doing things differently in my opinion. I don't agree with it and it’s not what I would do, but we’ll see if their plan of attack works.

WHAT’S THE FUTURE HOLD?

Reed has motorsports in his veins. Don't expect this champion to quit racing for the finish line any time in the near future, though he may turn his attentions to four wheels instead of two.

I’m a year-to-year guy at this point. Next year I’d like to race. Beyond that I don’t know what I want to do. I want to go four-wheel racing. You can’t leave it too long. As with every sport it’s involving. The athletes are getting younger and younger, and I’m not getting any younger. You need to make a transition at a point that you can take it all in, and not being too late in your mid-30s. That’s the goal, four wheels whether that’s NASCAR, off-road trucks, rally or back in Australia with V8 Supercar. I have some great relationships with a team back there and Vodafone. I’m not ready to move back to Australia 100% of the time so that’s what’s really holding me back on that. We’ll see, maybe I can do a part-time thing where I can have some fun and learn and maybe when I'm a little older I’m more willing to commit to moving back to Australia.

Source:  http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/484/10990/Motorcycle-Article/Chad-Reed-AMA-Motocross-Interview-2011.aspx

Pala 450 Motocross Qualifying Results 2011

September 11, 2011

 

Ryan Villopoto was two seconds faster than Ryan Dungey in qualifying.

 

Ryan Villopoto doesn’t necessarily have to win either moto today at Pala Raceway in order to win the 450 championship, but he doesn’t look to be taking it easy. The Monster Energy Kawasaki rider posted the fastest qualifying time which will give him a clean slate when it comes to lining up for Moto 1. Chad Reed is flying on his TwoTwo Motorsports Honda CRF450R and he will have second gate pick with factory Honda replacement rider Justin Barcia qualifying third. Red Bull KTM’s Mike Alessi is back on pace with fourth-fastest time while Ryan Dungey could only post fifth. The Rockstar Makita Suzuki rider was two seconds slower than Villopoto. Dungey will have to find some hidden speed before the racing starts if he hopes to win this championship and defend his title.

Pala 450 Motocross Qualifying Results:
1. Ryan Villopoto (Kawasaki) 2:10.676
2. Chad Reed (Honda) 2:11.189
3. Justin Barcia (Honda) 2:12.406
4. Mike Alessi (KTM) 2:12.708
5. Ryan Dungey (Suzuki) 2:12.747
6. Nico Izzi (Yamaha) 2:13.145
7. Brett Metcalfe (Suzuki) 2:13.159
8. Jake Canada (Yamaha) 2:13.812
9. Justin Brayton (Yamaha) 2:14.235
10. Jacob Weimer (Kawasaki) 2:14.628
11. Kyle Regal (Suzuki) 2:15.008
12. Jimmy Albertson (Yamaha) 2:15.152
13. Les Smith (Yamaha) 2:15.580
14. Ben LaMay (Yamaha) 2:15.712
15. Kyle Chisholm (Yamaha) 2:15.929
16. Vince Friese (Yamaha) 2:16.066
17. Colton Facciotti (Honda) 2:16.952
18. Tye Simmonds (KTM) 2:16.994
19. Michael Byrne (Suzuki) 2:17.189
20. Ricky Dietrich (Yamaha) 2:17.307

 

Source:  http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/785/11014/Motorcycle-Article/Pala-450-Motocross-Qualifying-Results-2011.aspx

Pala 450 Motocross Moto 2 Results 2011

September 11, 2011

Ryan Villopoto claimed his first 450 Motocross title by finishing second overall at Pala Raceway.

 

Moto 2 in the 450 class looked much like the first. Ryan Villopoto and Ryan Dungey didn’t learn their lesson well enough in Moto 1 and lined up too far to the inside on the gate which left them battling to be inside the top-10 on the start. However, this time Chad Reed didn’t crash out and the TwoTwo Motorsports rider was fighting for the holeshot and quickly into the lead.

Justin Brayton had a good start and ran up front early for the JGR Yamaha team, but Honda’s Justin Barcia took over the runner-up position on Lap 2. Barcia continued to chase Reed who was looking more like his early season form until Lap 7 when he lost the rear end and went down in a corner. The small crash allowed Barcia to slip past and Dungey to pull up on his rear wheel. Reed couldn’t hold off the defending champion who was doing everything in his power to win the moto and put himself in the best possible position for a miracle championship.Reed gave way to Villopoto two laps later and would finish the moto in fourth. Combined with 12th in Moto 1, he would finish 7th overall.

Instead of pushing through to the finish, RV2 wisely backed down his pace and let the two frontrunners get away. Meanwhile, Dungey was in a battle for the overall win and he sealed the deal with two laps to go. Barcia finished second with the new 450 class champion a distant third.

“We started off this outdoor season way behind,” said Villopoto. “It’s been a hell of a year.”

Ryan Dungey won the overall, but it wasn't enough to retain his 450 crown.

Dungey’s teammate Brett Metcalfe had another strong ride in fifth which gave him fourth overall, just behind Barcia who trailed the Ryans with a 3-2 moto tally. Mike Brown finished 15th in the last moto on his KTM – not bad for an old moto guy-turned off-roader.

“I’m really happy to end it out with a win,” said Dungey as he watched Villopoto collect the #1 plate. “It was a long-fought season. That’s what it’s about, that’s what racing is about. We train our butts off. Congratulations to the whole Kawasaki crew, Ryan Villopoto. It was a joy racing them all year. There was nothing I had to worry about, we could just fight each other clean. Let him taste a little bit of this victory like I did last year.”

AMA Motocross Pala 450 Overall Results:
1. Ryan Dungey (Suzuki) 2-1
2. Ryan Villopoto (Kawasaki) 1-3
3. Justin Barcia (Honda) 3-2
4. Brett Metcalfe (Suzuki) 5-5
5. Milke Alessi (KTM) 4-7
6. Kyle Regal (Suzuki) 6-8
7. Chad Reed (Honda) 12-4
8. Justin Brayton (Yamaha) 9-6
9. Jake Weimer (Kawasaki) 10-12
10. Les Smith (Yamaha) 14-9

AMA Motocross 450 Championship Points:
1. Ryan Villopoto, 526
2. Ryan Dungey, 514
3. Chad Reed, 382
4. Brett Metcalfe, 374
5. Mike Alessi, 304
6. Jake Weimer, 271
7. Justin Brayton, 218
8. Andrew Short, 196
9. Kevin Windham, 193
10. Davi Millsaps, 173

 

Source:  http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/785/11020/Motorcycle-Article/Pala-450-Motocross-Moto-2-Results-2011.aspx