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I have not seen it on Vital anywhere, so here you go. Best I can tell, we lost Nashville, and gained Pittsburgh:
Schedule All 17 2025 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Cities and Dates Announced - Racer X (racerxonline.com)
It’s all over vital….
Houston got screwed again while they have 4 rounds clumped together in the East, all within easy driving distance (Philly, Pittsburgh, Foxborough and East Rutherford). Atta way to “grow the sport”. Looks similar to the old Outdoor Nationals schedule.
Kind of sucks for us around NC,SC area no round within seven hours now that Atlanta is off the schedule, which wasnt worth going to anyways with Zmax SMX. I want a real SX round closer though.
Birmingham is like 6 hours away but no way im driving there, ill go another hour to Pittsburgh or a cheap flight to the warm weather in Tampa.
East Rutherford is 6 hours away from Pittsburgh. And Foxborough is 9 1/2 hours away from Pittsburgh. Far from clumped together.
The Shop
Love it! There is FINALLY a legitimate full Northeast swing of the tour. Boston, North Jersey/NYC adjacent, Philly and Pittsburgh. All in a row. Long overdue. Pumped!
Also the population density in that part of the country is higher than anywhere else do more rounds make plenty of sense through that lens.
You guys just had the first round of SMX in charlotte, which was awesome (I was there)
I’m just glad to see Tampa back!
Yes we have went the past two years and I do like having that so close but there is nothing like a SX in a football stadium, especially if your bringing people that dont follow the sport.
My wife and brother in law grew up in Tampa so we will all be going down making a mini vacation out of it, beach, supercross, Alafia for some mountain biking 👌
Great to see. 4 California rounds and 2 Texas rounds for 20+ years was not growing the sport. Northeast has been underrepresented (for SX) for too long considering number of fans and huge pop to draw casual observers.
It was my understanding the NE was underrepresented because it was too much of a headache dealing with the unions. Stuff like DirtWorks or Feld employees not being able to operate equipment, drive trucks, unload trucks, etc., in or around the stadiums. I wonder what changed?
Starting to feel like these new domed/retractable roof stadiums are setting a precedence that they aren't allowing dirt and exhaust in them. Mercedes dome in Atlanta had two races then used covid as an excuse to boot SX. Nashville is getting a new titans stadium soon and I'm hoping they have an SX round in it so us in the SE can have another round inside.
Alabama... to Seattle...to Foxborough, on consecutive weekends! That's A LOT of driving.
Then they have FOUR straight races in the northeast. Very little driving.
It would have made more sense to stay on the east coast then place Seattle as the 3rd to last round followed by Denver and Salt Lake.
I'm gonna drop an atlas in the mail to send to Feld and friends.
You realize that a population density map has a zero correlation to MX fan base right?
"and huge pop to draw casual observers."
it would be cool to see this same map but with MX fans, obviously no way to easily do that.
Youd think California and NC,SC and Florida, GA would be the highest per area of riders and MX fans.
No Saint Louis, thats where the weird action always happened in racing
Any theories for why they are starting the season a week late?
The last time the season began after January 9 was in 1998.
Starting this late was common 25+ years ago. In the 1990's, the season usually began the second Saturday in January. And in the 80's it was usually the last Saturday of January or the first Saturday in February
I wonder what percent of SX fans have never ridden a dirt bike. Is there much value in trying to attract non-riders?
Pit Row
We know our sport is at least 80% fanbase from current/former riders and families thereof. Outside fans that have nothing to do with moto, probably make up 15%. And random people that just show up to a race with zero knowledge of the sport but wanted to go see racing for fun, 5% maybe.
I was bummed to see Nashville off of the list, but at least I now know why. The Birmingham race last year was a lot of fun, but you are definitely gambling with the weather, especially in March. With no other choice, I will probably give Birmingham a go again, and probably RedBud if I can swing it (I love that place).
Wyoming looks like a good place to be.
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