Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship Gears Up for Landmark 50th Anniversary Season

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia—With the convert of the new calendar year, preparations are formally underway for the landmark 50th Anniversary of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. In conjunction with just about every respective Nationals event organizer, the sanctioning overall body at AMA Pro Racing, and longtime series title sponsor Lucas Oil, MX Sports activities Professional Racing will celebrate the storied legacy of the world’s most prestigious off-highway motorcycle racing sequence, beginning with the introduction of a new commemorative symbol for the 2022 time.

“After two years of issues to successfully put into practice a championship calendar we are unbelievably keen for the season that lies in advance this summer season. We’ll have an opportunity to adequately celebrate the 50th anniversary of this storied championship and spend homage to the persons and venues who served elevate American motocross to the forefront of the sport on a international scale,” stated Davey Coombs, President of MX Sports Professional Racing. “We also want to use this year as an option to realize the entities that have played an integral job in our capability to create on this indelible legacy more than the past 14 many years given that MX Athletics Pro Racing was awarded the part of collection organizers.”

The 2022 Lucas Oil Professional Motocross Championship logo serves as a symbol of five many years showcasing the world’s greatest motocross expertise, hallmarked by a laurel wreath consisting of 50 leaves surrounding the anniversary numeral and the series’ longevity (1972-2022). Additionally, gold now compliments the series’ foundational blue colorway in an embrace of the “golden anniversary” of the 2022 season. The Lucas Oil branding gives a distinguished accent piece showcasing the company’s common crimson colorway alongside with 4 stars that provide as a nod to America’s job in elevating the activity via its most distinguished championship.

When the series was initial introduced in 1972 it formalized a long term, stand-by itself countrywide championship for homegrown expertise to showcase their prowess less than the banner of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA). It didn’t consider extensive for the Pro Motocross Championship to evolve into a legitimate worldwide competitiveness amongst domestic and intercontinental athletes, and for the past 50 years it has brought the greatest riders from six continents to the United States in a quest for achievement and stardom, competing on the most hallowed grounds in all of motocross.

Fittingly, the 50th anniversary will provide as the most outstanding representation of the global affect of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship as a pair of intercontinental riders will carry the selection a single plate in the two the 450 Class and 250 Class for the to start with time in historical past. Frenchman Dylan Ferrandis is just the 3rd European rider ever in the 450 Course to serve as reigning champion, whilst Australian Jett Lawrence enters uncharted territory as the initially defending titleholder in the 250 Class from the “Land Down Beneath.”

Although most of the awareness deservedly facilities on the expertise-loaded assortment of athletes planning to embark on the grueling 24-moto journey this summer, lots of of the venues that will compose the 2022 schedule have been fixtures of the heritage of American motocross over the earlier 50 percent century. Irrespective of whether it is New York’s famous Unadilla MX or California’s storied Hangtown Typical, both of which predate the Pro Motocross Championship, Michigan’s renowned RedBud MX, Massachusetts notorious The Wick 338, or Pennsylvania’s iconic Significant Stage Raceway, these tracks have performed an equally pivotal role in the ascension of American motocross as the hundreds of riders who have stood on the podium considering the fact that that inaugural 1972 time. It’s a exceptional juxtaposition that helps make the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship a single of motorsports’ most distinguished competitions.

The 50th Anniversary of the Lucas Oil Professional Motocross Championship will kick off more than Memorial Day Weekend, on Could 28, for the proverbial get started of the summer and will travel during the country to the sport’s most higher-profile venues for 12 captivating rounds, concluding on September 3 in the course of Labor Working day Weekend.

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