How long were motos when you were a kid

Same here @ Millville.

3.25 minutes(?) for 80cc mini jr = 13minutes

Brit Champs - morning qualifying race 15 min, afternoon mains 2 x 30 min + 2. Local pro races 3 x 20min + 2 .

As a little kid ( schoolboys) 4 x 10 min per meeting - unless it was a National then 4 x 15 min - most weekends clubs ran 2 day meetings. 3 day holiday weekends you could do three meetings and at Easter we sometimes raced 4 days straight - Good Friday, Saturday, Easter Sunday, Bank Holiday Monday. 

VERY good times . 

You didn’t have to race barefoot?

You’re lucky!

my very first race in 1978 was the Viewfinder’s GP at Indian Dunes, it was 2-1/2 hours long. Water jump, several water crossings, all (4) tracks combined and they took us up into the hills and sec the entire sand wash. I think I did a total of 6 laps in total. It was brutal, but I was hooked…. Never looked back and it became a “part of my lifestyle”. 

1985 at Barona Oaks... 5 laps. It probably took me about 15 minutes per moto, but this was the 80cc Beginner class. 

When I was a kid (late 60's, very early 70's), each class ran three motos and they were generally around 15 minutes per moto. With only three displacement classes and three skill classes, that was only nine classes, so we were out on the track a lot.  Guys running more than one bike were particularly tough.

When I started in 1971, yes...the 1900"s kids🤣, we were racing a 3 moto format and the motos were relatively short.  Usually 5-6 laps, but most tracks had at least a 2 minute lap time, so 10-12 minute motos.
By 1974 everyone had adopted the 2 moto format and we were usually 6-8 laps unless it was A/Money Class which was almost always 20 minute motos, sometimes 30 minutes.
BUT, we didn't have ALL the participation trophy/Loretta's classes that exist today🙄.  Mini, 100, 125, 175, 250, Open, Pro/Money, Powder Puff.  Race day usually started with practice around 10 AM, racing at 1, leaving for home by 5 PM.  On any Sunday...

In the regional racing I did it was:

• 10 min +2 laps for 60cc
• 12 min +2 laps for 80cc junior
• 15 min +2 laps for 80cc senior
• 20 min +2 laps for 125cc
   
• 2 motos each class

I think the old Elsinore super Saturday series and hot summer nights at Perris ran 10 or 15 min motos? That was on minis though. I’m sure the big bike classes were 20 min motos. This was early 2000’s. Every gate was full too 

Mid 1970s in the mini/80cc class was 5 laps... lap times were right around 2 minutes.... 

1970's CMC weekend races in CA, all motos 45 minutes- 3 of them. No mini classes at all. Weeknight series at Southbay speedway in Chula Vista was all 5 lap motos IIRC. I started VMX in early 2000s and standard was 5 lap motos except special circumstances of weather, running late and motos got shortened to fit the whole race program in.

I took 15 years off of racing and just started back last year. When I was growing up the races were at least 5 laps for most classes, and 6 for A classes. Now the races are 4 laps and 5 for the pro classes. Even the LL area qualifier was only 4 laps. I raced 2 weekends ago on a night track for 4 laps and the race was around 4 minutes. Both motos and practice netted me around 12 minutes of track time for the whole night. 

Conversely, the regional qualifier coming up is 15+1 for my class for 3 motos. 

This to me is the single biggest reason local racing is trash:

That and the classes themselves with no effort to actually group people by speed. You have people getting lapped in 4 lap races becuase the classification system in amateurs is completely worthless.

Antietam Motocross near Hagerstown MD would do 20 and 30 minutes motos during District 7 Expert Points races.

The Loretta Lynn Amateur National's "class structure" has caused the 4 & 5 lap moto trend.  Every mini-Dad thinks they need an 85cc 14-15 age class. 85cc 12-13, etc. and hundreds of other non-necessary classes.        Like WTF is this...............250 C Jr. (12-17) Limited?  ( Why would a novice 16 yr old even go to Tennessee in August? )

Post up the classes you had to choose from in your day. At Barona Oaks in 1985 it was this, as far as I can remember:

50cc Shaft, Stock/Mod
60cc Stock/Mod
80cc Beginner
80cc Novice Stock/Mod
80cc Intermediate Stock/Mod
80cc Expert Stock/Mod
80cc Open [EDIT: This was actually 105cc Open (Supermini)] 
125 Beginner
125 Novice Stock/Mod
125 Intermediate Stock/Mod
125 Expert Stock/Mod
125 Open 

That's 20 classes! They would sometimes run Expert and Intermediate classes together but not always. The day started with a riders' meeting after 5 groups of practice, which started at 8AM. If you had the last race class, your second moto was usually under long shadows in the spring and fall. 

Lower classes 20 min plus a lap, expert 40 plus a lap

3 hrs... In the snow... and it was uphill both ways...

5 lap motos is what I remember

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