“Time to take it outside where it outta be,” proclaimed MX Sports Director Tim Cotter to kick off the 53rd season of AMA Pro Motocross racing. As the SuperMotocross World Championship hits the midway point in the year, the Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, gets underway this Saturday, May 25, with the Honda Fox Raceway National in Pala, Calif. The 11-round outdoor season will travel to 10 different states, with visits to the hallowed grounds of Fox Raceway, Hangtown, Thunder Valley Motocross Park, High Point Raceway, RedBud MX, The Wick 338, Spring Creek MX Park, Washougal MX Park, Unadilla MX, Budds Creek Motocross Park and Ironman Raceway.
While Fox Raceway marks the start of the traditional outdoors nationals, it is technically the half-way point for the new Super Motocross World Championship series, which weds Supercross with Pro Motocross results to create a playoff system to determine an overall champion. As with any good wedding, Cotter notes there is something old, something new, something borrowed…
“While we are celebrating 53 years of AMA Pro racing, several rounds have an even longer history in the sport — round #2 at Hangtown is commemorating its 55th anniversary next week,” conceded Cotter. What all the old guard outdoor events have in common with the new SMX Championship is that all 11 promoters are fans first. Borrowing from the past, the Moto Hero recognition program continues this year and Washougal will be a Military appreciation round. “
We are also reintroducing WMX at High Point and Iron Man rounds.” The next WMX round will take place on June 16 in conjunction with the 2024 AMA Pro Motocross Championship at High Point Raceway on Father’s Day weekend. The series will then travel to Crawfordsville, Indiana for their fifth round on August 25 to run another race in conjunction with the 2024 AMA Pro Motocross Championship at Ironman Raceway.
Once the Pro Motocross season concludes, the combined points between Supercross and Pro Motocross will be tallied and the top 20 athletes in the world will be automatically seeded into the SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs and Final.
SuperMotocross World Championship Playoff 1 will take place on Saturday, September 7, at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C., and Playoff 2 is set for Saturday, September 14, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, followed by the SuperMotocross World Championship Final on Saturday, September 21, at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas.