How many Americans have won their very first ever MXGP they entered?

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I can think of only one man that did that... I may be wrong though.
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A couple of these are guesses but...

Jim Pomeroy '73
Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio)
Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio)
Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio)
Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)
Erik Kehoe '86 (Steel City)
Rodney Smith '87 (Brazil)

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DC wrote:
A couple of these are guesses but... Jim Pomeroy '73 Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio) Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio) Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio) Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)...
A couple of these are guesses but...

Jim Pomeroy '73
Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio)
Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio)
Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio)
Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)
Erik Kehoe '86 (Steel City)
Rodney Smith '87 (Brazil)

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Donnie Hansen 82 Germany
Kevin Windham 99 Buds Creek

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Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but I am not sure.

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DC wrote:
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but...
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but I am not sure.

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Bob Hannah, France, if my memory serves me correctly.
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DC wrote:
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but...
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but I am not sure.

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Robgvx wrote:
Bob Hannah, France, if my memory serves me correctly.
Marty Moates?
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BobbyM 3/5/2015 1:07pm
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hillbilly wrote:
There or their?
"thar"?
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Dx3moto 3/5/2015 1:07pm
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How about, how many Americans have won their very first ever GP that wasn't on home soil?
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Dx3moto wrote:
How about, how many Americans have won their very first ever GP that wasn't on home soil?
Or, we can just let Villipoto get tf on with it....
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BobbyM 3/5/2015 1:10pm
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ok...the walking motocross encyclopedia is not allowed to play (this means you DC and possibly uptight too) Wink

damn forgot about my boy Rodney...shame shame shame.
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Dx3moto wrote:
How about, how many Americans have won their very first ever GP that wasn't on home soil?
Well Rodney and Jim would be two at least.
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DC wrote:
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but...
Good call UpTite! But I think it was Vimmerby, Sweden.... And now that I think of it, Hansen may have rode the Mid-Ohio 125 USGP, but I am not sure.

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Robgvx wrote:
Bob Hannah, France, if my memory serves me correctly.
Robgvx wrote:
Marty Moates?
Marty the man I believe raced the USGP a couple times before he won Rob...could be wrong on this too.
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Here are your American GP winners:

15 Donny Schmit

13
Trampas Parker

12
Bob Moore

9
Brad Lackey

6
Danny Laporte
Billy Liles

4
Jeff Stanton
Tallon Vohland
Ricky Johnson


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Marty Smith
Jim Pomeroy
Johnny O'Mara
Broc Glover
Mike Brown

2
Ron Lechien
Mike Kiedrowski
Mike Healey
Bob Hannah
Danny Chandler
Mark Barnett
David Bailey

1
Zach Osborne
Kevin Windham
Chuck Sun
Rodney Smith
Marty Moates
Eric Kehoe
Kent Howerton
Donny Hansen
Mike Guerra
Jim Ellis
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Dany "Magoo" Chandler Carlsbad 82, not sure if he ever did Mid-Ohio 125. Hansen was Sweden, got hurt in Germany practicing.
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SouthwestMfg 3/5/2015 1:36pm
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Mistake, Magoo rode a Kelvin Franks 4-stroke and a Maico before 82.

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SouthwestMfg wrote:
Mistake, Magoo rode a Kelvin Franks 4-stroke and a Maico before 82.
250 support class in 79, passed me then hit the dirt about two turns later...I got him back. hehehe
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wreckitrandy wrote:
Didn't Fonzy win a gp in Japan once?
Ernesto Fonseca won in Japan on the debut of the YZ250F Yamaha (with YoT livery) but it wasn't a GP.

Phil Alderton had called me the year before to say "Rock I have something to tell you but you can't tell a soul' and I said no problem lay it on me brother. "Keith McCarty just called to tell me two of our riders will be on 250 four strokes" and I was more than a little surprised. Guess I shouldn't have been after the YZ400 but talk about another seismic shift in the sport when Ernie raced the YZ250F in Japan.
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I got a set of Ernesto's gear in my closet that somehow got shuffled down through Aldon Baker during the Carmichael day's and ended up at a family friend's house of Aldon and she didn't even know what the stuff was.

Pretty cool since he was one of my favorite riders.

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DC 3/5/2015 3:41pm
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I am playing! I am stuck in Daytona for a week and this is the one free day I have to bench race...

Marty Moates raced in Europe on the Ossa before he won Carlsbad 1980.

Magoo raced the 125 USGP at Mid-Ohio that same year Hansen did (and O'Mara won).

Hannah's first GP was years earlier, the epic '76 Mid-Ohio showdown with Marty Smith -- the one time all year Marty beat Bob.

Trampas Parker raced one GP in '87 or '88 before he showed up and blew everyone's minds at the start of the 1989 125cc Grand Prix season.

On foreign soil, only Pomeroy, Smith (Brazil) and Dymond (Argentina) come to mind. Kiedrowski did win the actual 125 GP final in Japan in the 125 class (where Healey flipped off Stanton in the 250 class).

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DC wrote:
A couple of these are guesses but... Jim Pomeroy '73 Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio) Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio) Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio) Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)...
A couple of these are guesses but...

Jim Pomeroy '73
Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio)
Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio)
Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio)
Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)
Erik Kehoe '86 (Steel City)
Rodney Smith '87 (Brazil)

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Kehoe won steel city in 87 not 86. You should know this DC if it was your family promoting it! Wink
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"I am stuck in Daytona"

Wish I had that problem for a weekWhistlingSmile
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DC wrote:
I am playing! I am stuck in Daytona for a week and this is the one free day I have to bench race... Marty Moates raced...
I am playing! I am stuck in Daytona for a week and this is the one free day I have to bench race...

Marty Moates raced in Europe on the Ossa before he won Carlsbad 1980.

Magoo raced the 125 USGP at Mid-Ohio that same year Hansen did (and O'Mara won).

Hannah's first GP was years earlier, the epic '76 Mid-Ohio showdown with Marty Smith -- the one time all year Marty beat Bob.

Trampas Parker raced one GP in '87 or '88 before he showed up and blew everyone's minds at the start of the 1989 125cc Grand Prix season.

On foreign soil, only Pomeroy, Smith (Brazil) and Dymond (Argentina) come to mind. Kiedrowski did win the actual 125 GP final in Japan in the 125 class (where Healey flipped off Stanton in the 250 class).

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is this off the top of your head, or are you looking all this up?
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High geek factor when it comes to stats and results and Moto... And World War One but that never comes up here, thankfully. Back to the grind.

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Benchracer17 3/5/2015 7:47pm
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DC wrote:
A couple of these are guesses but... Jim Pomeroy '73 Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio) Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio) Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio) Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)...
A couple of these are guesses but...

Jim Pomeroy '73
Marty Smith '74 (Mid-Ohio)
Broc Glover '78 (Mid-Ohio)
Johnny O'Mara '80 (Mid-Ohio)
Ron Lechien '85 (Unadilla)
Erik Kehoe '86 (Steel City)
Rodney Smith '87 (Brazil)

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UpTiTe wrote:
Donnie Hansen 82 Germany
Kevin Windham 99 Buds Creek
Wasn't Donnie Hansen 1982 Swedish 250 GP?

edit: sorry - didn't catch DC's quote below. my bad.
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iBobbyb 3/5/2015 7:48pm
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@dc
i couldnt even tell you who won redbud 2011 and i was there... lol
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DC wrote:
I am playing! I am stuck in Daytona for a week and this is the one free day I have to bench race... Marty Moates raced...
I am playing! I am stuck in Daytona for a week and this is the one free day I have to bench race...

Marty Moates raced in Europe on the Ossa before he won Carlsbad 1980.

Magoo raced the 125 USGP at Mid-Ohio that same year Hansen did (and O'Mara won).

Hannah's first GP was years earlier, the epic '76 Mid-Ohio showdown with Marty Smith -- the one time all year Marty beat Bob.

Trampas Parker raced one GP in '87 or '88 before he showed up and blew everyone's minds at the start of the 1989 125cc Grand Prix season.

On foreign soil, only Pomeroy, Smith (Brazil) and Dymond (Argentina) come to mind. Kiedrowski did win the actual 125 GP final in Japan in the 125 class (where Healey flipped off Stanton in the 250 class).

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iBobbyb wrote:
is this off the top of your head, or are you looking all this up?
I seriously doubt Davey Coombs has to look up his MX history information. The guy is a walking Motocross encyclopedia.

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