How crazy would it be if a 16 year old won a 450 Supercross ?

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Edited Date/Time 1/26/2012 9:34pm
It happened in 1983.
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the CLINT butt patch made me look twice
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Ddavis 3/30/2010 2:08am
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16 years and 5 days, Marty Tripes.. right? youngest to win
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mccread 3/30/2010 4:26am
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Rozen could probably do it if he was allowed. Stewart would probably have done it too.
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WSR 3/30/2010 4:34am
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Wins it on a bone stock Yamaha? Sometimes Huffman goes over the top.

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zippy895 3/30/2010 4:59am
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didnt he pick up the yz at a local shop just prior to that race win?
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JB 19 3/30/2010 5:04am
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zippy895 wrote:
didnt he pick up the yz at a local shop just prior to that race win?
I think it is something like that......I'm sure one of the OG's will know.
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His contract with Yamaha was over and his dad went and bought a new yz250 from a dealer and had a little done to it I think by Mitch, but pretty much a stock bike with a pipe and mild work.....nothing exotic like the factories were running at the time.
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lumpy790 3/30/2010 5:24am
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No way Ronnie was 16. His 1st year he was #224 and he had to be 16 to get his pro card.
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I believe Bradshaw won a japanese supercross at 16 beating all the top riders at the time. It is possible the dogger was still 16 barely being that particular san diego sx I believe was at the end of 83 which was his rookie year.
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San Diego was not Ron's first win, he also won earlier in 83 (on a factory Yamaha) when he was only 16 and a few months (his birthday is in December). It was Orlando or Tampa if I recall correctly (somewhere in Florida).
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anniebertmojo 3/30/2010 7:21am
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dl117 wrote:
His contract with Yamaha was over and his dad went and bought a new yz250 from a dealer and had a little done to it I...
His contract with Yamaha was over and his dad went and bought a new yz250 from a dealer and had a little done to it I think by Mitch, but pretty much a stock bike with a pipe and mild work.....nothing exotic like the factories were running at the time.
Yes... I was working at Pro Circuit when this went down. Mitch had 2 employee's. Myself and Mike Guerra (now with Yamaha rider support). Payton was in the transition from the Husky dealership to doing engine work with the Jap bikes. He had an opportunity to prove himself (he just started the relationship w/Honda) and when the RL deal came about it was a great way to move into Yamaha. He ported a few cylinders for RL and did some head work. (we ran the heads down to Dallas Baker and he did them to Payton's specs). I can't remember if it was a stamped pipe out of the PC pipe shop or a cone pipe. But Dave Carter used to build the cone pipes for PC back then to Payton's specs.

As for RL being 16.... I think he was. RL was an amazing rider when he was focused. For me being a 17 year working their and seeing the MX stars walk in and out of the place on a daily basis it was mind boggling. Especially when DeCoster called the shop.
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suzrider982 wrote:
Stewart was the youngest to win a 125 SX race at 16 and 1 month or close to it,but he didn't race 250SX[back then, now 450] til his 4th year in 05 when he was already 19 years old.
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Man those white gators on Bailey, I wanted those soooo bad ........LOL !
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hahaha lmao
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ShookOne 3/30/2010 8:36am
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mccread wrote:
Rozen could probably do it if he was allowed. Stewart would probably have done it too.
hahahahaha
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Ddavis 3/30/2010 12:39pm
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1972 L.A SX, Marty Tripes, 16 years and 10 days. Youngest to win a AMA Supercross.
2002 San Diego SX, James Stewart, 16 years and 21 days. Youngest to win AMA Lites SX
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GuyB 3/30/2010 12:40pm
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But are we talking 450 only? Or Open class?

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DanDunes818 3/30/2010 1:03pm
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WSR wrote:
Wins it on a bone stock Yamaha? Sometimes Huffman goes over the top.
I was at this race. I remember it well. Goat Brecker actually won that race for Ronny by holding up Johnson for like 10 laps. We didn't have lap times back then but if we did I bet it would of had RJ clicking off lap times 2-3 seconds faster then the field. RJ was flat out flying but Brecker road a wide bike back then.

You got to love Larry Huffman.. IMO the goat of sx announcers. I read that Larry modeled his announcing style from Chick Hearns the old LA lakers announcers. Him and Chick were the king of the one liners..

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BobbyM 3/30/2010 2:09pm
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Ddavis wrote:
1972 L.A SX, Marty Tripes, 16 years and 10 days. Youngest to win a AMA Supercross.2002 San Diego SX, James Stewart, 16 years and 21 days...
1972 L.A SX, Marty Tripes, 16 years and 10 days. Youngest to win a AMA Supercross.
2002 San Diego SX, James Stewart, 16 years and 21 days. Youngest to win AMA Lites SX
the first SX ever held...badass.
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BobbyM wrote:
the first SX ever held...badass.
Daytona 1971 was first.
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lumpy790 wrote:
No way Ronnie was 16. His 1st year he was #224 and he had to be 16 to get his pro card.
He was 16 at this race.This is the end of 83 season and was not part of sx series.Yamaha knew he had recently signed with Honda for 84 but he had to wait for contract with Yamaha to end.Yamaha didn't want to give him a bike to race and he couldn't race Honda's yet so he went and borrowed a stock yamaha from a local dealer cause he wanted to race in his hometown............
p.s.---not being an AMA race is why he is not using #224 here.
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Lechien's DOB is 12-13-66. He won the Orlando SX on 6-11-83 at 16 years and just shy of 6 months old.

The San Diego race in the video above was a CMC SX race at the end of 1983 - it might have been part of the Trans Cal series.

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