Legends & Heroes Tour to honor the first Champions of “Moto” at Daytona

The Legends & Heroes of MX Tour to
honor the first Champions of “Moto” at the
Daytona Speedway! 
 

March 2, 2011 - Merced, CA:  The
1971 Daytona-Cross 500cc Champion, Gunnar Lindstrom and ’72 & ‘79
Daytona Supercross Champion, Jimmy “The Jammer” Weinert”, will be
honored at this year’s Daytona Supercross.

Gunnar Lindstrom was
a Swedish-born rider who helped usher in the sport of motocross in
America in the late 1960s. Lindstrom worked at the Husqvarna factory in
Sweden, and moved to America to help establish the brand in this
country. Lindstrom was a leading Trans-AMA and Inter-AMA rider of the
early 1970s, and later was an early star in the newly formed AMA
Motocross National Championship. Lindstrom won two AMA 250cc Motocross
Nationals and was ranked third in that series in 1972.

"Jammin’
Jimmy" Weinert was a pioneering Motocross and Supercross Champion
during the early years of the sport in America. In the 1970s, Weinert
won a total of 22 AMA nationals races and three AMA championships
during his 11-year professional racing career. In November of 1973,
Weinert became the first American to beat the international riders in
the Trans-AMA Motocross Series. That victory marked one of the turning
points that brought American motocross up to par with the then-dominant
Europeans.

Alex Moroz, the tours’ general managing partner,
states “We are marking 40 years of “Moto” history at the Speedway as
the Legends & Heroes Moto Museum will be present in honoring  these
two great past champions”.   Special autograph signings will take place
on Friday, March 4^th at the new Legends & Heroes of Motocross Moto Museum display and again on Saturday, March 5^th in the SX area of the Daytona Speedway Sprint Zone.  Come on by and check us out!