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I was at the 1990 (Chicken; MC win - pretty cool to see his first win) and 1991 (Larocco first SX win; ) LV SX races too.
I was at the crazy LV Supercross when a rider landed on Damon Huffan's bike. Have no idea how that happened. https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Someone-requested-this-o…
The Shop
https://youtu.be/_9HdnUw6ius?t=780
1998 Broom-Tioga - Awesome watching John Dowd pass RC over that gnarly downhill triple and was bittersweet to see Doug Henry clinch the championship that year.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxcNkwQ313v76mBXe3RB1sPBv3zKqJv3ir
2003 Unadilla - The year that K-Dub broke R.C's winning streak.
Next is Pala this year as I watched in person Chase win whose family is close friends for many years.
But my resounding memory was it taking about 4 hours to get out of the parking lot at that stadium, which was in the arsehole of Vegas.
Pit Row
RC won the SX title that year by 2 points…
Isle of Wight GP, seeing Ben Townley win a GP in person for the first time,
Desert Martin GP, De Reuver passing Mike Alessi and looking back and waving at him to keep up, and also the GP community saying good by to Ben with the "Good By Stompie" tee shirts, after winning even Everts stopped and put one on,
Ernee MXdn, as others mentioned, probably one of the greatest crowds in mx history, watching RC lead the Americans back to the MXDN after a few years away, and watching Ben chase RC in the last moto of the day, the crowd was unreal that day,
Anyways… I don’t think Covid happening was the reason for them yanking it. They (FELD and the ama officials) were just constantly arguing. Then Covid came along… and well;
We all know the rest..
The other significance of that day was watching the KX500's and CR500's being absolutely dominated by the 500cc four strokes, in particular Joel Smets on the KTM. This was on a track with a lot of hills and a lot of traction. To me it signalled that two strokes were no longer the best platform to build a motocross bike.
Stewart/Carmichael dueling in both motos at Washougal in 06
1986 Carlsbad USGP. RJ was the man
1990 Anaheim- Bradshaw winning his first Supercross
1992 LA Coliseum- Stanton just dominating the main, and Bradshaw can’t pass Guy Cooper. It was devastating as a Bradshaw fan.
1992 USGP Glen Helen. Just JMB on a CR500. Poetry.
1993 Anaheim- MCs first win
1997 LA- MC on a Suzuki and it going horribly
1999 Glen Helen- Tortelli crushing everyone
1999 Rosebowl World Supercross: Travis Pastrana’s 125 debut, wreckless, wild, win.
2001 Anaheim 2- MCs last win
2002 A1 Stewart’s first 125 Supercross. Special.
2004 Glen Helen. Stew on a 250F, RC clinches 24-0, running the #1 plate. Hondas last 450 title to date.
2005 San Diego- Reed passing RC on the last lap while they lapped the battle for 3rd between DV and Larocco.
2008 Glen Helen: Stewart just crushing everyone 24-0
2010 Hangtown Eli wins his first pro race
2011 Atlanta- Reed/Stew last lap take out and RV wins
2014 A2, Reed wins coming through the pack on his TwoTwo Kawasaki.
2015 Eli At Hangtown and Glen Helen
2017 Roczen at A1, and his battle with Dungey at San Diego. A2s crash.
2017 Vegas: Osborne/Savatgy and Dungey/Tomac
2020 A2, Jett’s endo and the whole stadium cheering that kid on.
2022 A1. Supercross back at full capacity.
It was such a show, that the rest of the race didn't even matter. Eyes were glued on this battle.
They rode so fast, that they lapped up to 3rd place (for a moment)!.
On the last lap, Reed made a strategic pass, carrying speed through a rhythm section, and taking away Carmichael's line out of the following corner, a very clean pass. He then bolted away. Ricky tried to get him back and ended up going down the whoops.
During that last lap, Mike LaRocco looked over, then had to do a double take. He was like "I'm in 3rd place! How am I about to be lapped? What the hell?". Through sheer will, somehow LaRocco unlapped himself, or managed to just barely not get lapped.
Reed crossed the finish line in what I consider the greatest battle ever in Supercross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtdFuov-lQ
A couple other experiences.
I saw the very first back flip live at Gravity Games 2000 with my son.
I've raced the amateur race before the National at Pala/Fox Raceway twice. Such a blast!
Atmosphere was awesome, bikes were awesome. Townley on the Phase Suzuki 125!
The week in Melbourne….Bar 20….. take me back!!!
I remember it was so dusty it was almost impossible to see the riders in places. He was mobbed when he crossed the line. There was a lot of good will that he'd finally won it.
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