Legendary and unusual Supercross track designs

So glad I was at 2009 STL. Bring back wall berms!

Same. I flew in on Thursday that year and spent most of Friday hanging out at the track. It was way more gnarly Friday than it was for Saturday. Watching the guys try to figure it out was cool to see. At one point I was with Pastrana and Chad and Travis was basically calling Chad a pussy for being intimidated. 😂

Best sx track ever designed, imho.

Nashville 2024 was one of the most memorable to me in recent years for the big crooked triple they were doing before the whoops. I think it was even cut down for the night show and qually was crazier. 

That night was the night of the Ken Roczen shock failure in that very section, chase looping the bike over the start straight double, and kitchen & mcadoo colliding mid-air causing both of them to lose their red plates.

I was at the stl 09 race. If I recall Travis didn’t make the night show. 

3 of the 2000 tracks immediately come to mind:

-Anaheim 2. Biggest whoops ever and a massive quad

-Houston. That weird big non-double into the last corner before the finish.

-Pontiac 2 (there were 2 that year!). The huge step up triple only MC and Windham were doing before the finish

2001 had some great ones too. A lot of it comes down to having more dirt back then to build larger/unusual obstacles.

Watching that 2009 race I was thinking oh wow people jumped whoops back then also, vital acts like nobody used to do it cause they were so hardcore lol.

1978 Superbowl of Motocross in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum they had a water splash. 

That’s probably the most unusual thing I’ve ever seen in an SX track. 
 

That was a fun watch

Only reason i put it here, is because the track was all sand. I believe.

The reason i posted this one is the whoops go up and then back down like pyramid... Literally have never seen this ever again on a sx track.. and frankly they need to bring it back

2002 Anaheim 3, after the start straight:

posted because the whoop section lead into a step on/ drop off that we haven't seen since then.

wtf, i was at this race too lol.. I swear to god i thought it was a tabletop in the middle of the whoops that night. i was wrong lol

You're still right though! Maybe we've seen it twice or a handful of times ever. It's a cool obstacle.

He was in the night show, but smashed his radiator in the lcq I believe.

I was thinking that’s crazy, super cool idea I’ve never even conceived of. I’m shocked, I’ve watched this season so many times and never remembered that. Good pull

Yeah he came together with someone and it cracked it. The dragons back in person was so gnarly when you walked it.  Pastrana doing a backflip off the back off a berm, then the finish line, James and Chad going Mach 1 compared to everyone else... Back when STL was a legit stop on the calendar and Paul/Arcvhiew the next day 

Saw the thread title and immediately thought STL 2009. The one Windham designed for Houston 08 was cool, too, where they jumped over the start straight. Pretty much all the tracks of the early 2000s seem insane now.

Cracked radiator is what i recall as well, guess I should have said the main event instead of the night show. Also, I think our tickets that night were on the front row. Great seats for a minute but after watching the same landing and takeoff we missed a lot of the action. 

Now everything is a 3’ or 5’ same distance apart for the most part. Boring

I have watched many a race from up top by Mitch Payton. You can actually see the track better. Even club or suite tickets you lose a little overall view. But I like the food and drinks with no line 

When they used to jump on to the roof of the athletics building down behind the endzone at Sam Boyd in Vegas, that was pretty unique.  

I think the year of the weird crash with Damon Huffman with Shane Trittler was one of those years.  

Agreed, I was getting tickets through Hansen beverage back then, so I took what I could get. But it was definitely a lesson learned. 

That is SO much better than the formulaic tracks today. 

Bercy 1988 up to 91 or 92 could be up there. With a pretty full line up both AMA SX and MXGP in both classes, it made the track look great !  

Az has had some good tracks over the years. I remember one where you went over then a 270 sand corner and went under. Made for some great racing. 2017ish year range. 

That ‘09 STL race did not lack intensity!

When I was a kid, my mom sprung for lower level seats for the San Diego Supercross one year (probably '83 or '84). Talk about a waste of money. The following year, we sat in the nosebleeds for half the cost but saw all the action on the track.

That track was sick