Press Releases
MORGANTOWN, W.V. (April 29, 2009) - MX Sports, in conjunction with the NPG, are pleased to announce the 2009 schedule of amateur racing events, which are held in conjunction with the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship. These events, which are a long-standing tradition of the series, are organized to allow local motocross racers the opportunity to ride a world class facility.
Muscle Milk/MDK/KTM rider Searle, current KTM Junior Team riders Anstie and Weeck plus Factory KTM Canada riders Northrop and Phillips all showed up to compete at the 22nd running of the MTA World Four-Stroke Championship at Glen Helen Raceway.
$25,000 Up for Grabs for Top Non-Factory Competitor
Controversial On-Track Exchange Means All Bets are off This Saturday
AURORA, Ill. (April 27, 2009) – The thrilling and often times tense battle for the 2009 Monster Energy® AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, title came to a head this past Saturday as the tour returned to Salt Lake City’s Rice Eccles Stadium.
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At this weekend's penultimate round of the Monster Energy Supercross season, all eyes were on the Thor/Parts Unlimited riders of Chad Reed, Ryan Villopoto, Jake Weimer, and Ryan Morais. While Reed was in the midst of the most competitive championship race in history, Weimer and Morais were fighting for their chance at the AMA Supercross Lites Western Regional Championship. Meanwhile, Villopoto was fresh off his first career victory one week prior at his home race in Seattle and was looking to continue to ride his wave of momentum.
After five of ten stages of the Tunisian Rally that takes riders 4,500 km through Tunisia and Libya, the cat and mouse game between KTM factory Marc Coma and Cyril Despres continues with Coma having a slight edge on the Frenchman at the half way mark.
But the two Dakar winners, who are so at home on the desert sands, were able to take a break on Monday with high winds and lack of visibility resulted in the cancellation of the second part of the two-day endurance stage.
Old rivals
Blais Racing/KTM rider Russ Pearson won the 4th round of the AMA Hare & Hound Series while Shock Doctor/KTM riders David Kamo and David Pearson finished 4th and 5th respectively.
Both Kamo and D. Pearson had decent starts but the dust off the start caused trouble for Kamo as they rounded the end of the bomb. "The dust got so thick that I couldn't see anything and before I knew it I was over the bars and on the ground," commented Kamo. His teammate, Pearson was able to escape the worst of the dust clouds and sat inside the top five along with R. Pearson as they began the first loop.
Defending Champion, Shock Doctor/KTM rider Russell Bobbitt won his third race of the season at the fifth round of the AMA National Enduro Series.
Bobbitt controlled the race from start to finish winning four of the six special tests. The other two tests were won by his teammate, eight-time National Enduro Champion, Mike Lafferty. "I had a good day and felt great. My KTM was running perfect and the course conditions were really good," commented Bobbitt.
Yamaha Racing
RACE REPORT 26/04/2009
Cairoli keeps series lead with Benelux podium
Dungey Captures Western Regional Lites Class Championship
SALT LAKE CITY (April 25, 2009) – San Manual Yamaha’s James Stewart, of Haines City, Fla., won his 11th Monster Energy® AMA Supercross, a FIM World Championship, race at Rice-Eccles Stadium before 40,612 fans. Rockstar/Makita Suzuki’s Ryan Dungey, of Belle Plaine, Minn., capped off the Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites class season with the championship. In tonight’s Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites class main event, GEICO Powersports Honda’s Trey Canard, of Shawnee, Okla., won his first race of the season.