2010 Supercross Eligibility Requirements
The following is the AMA Supercross license requirements and AMA Supercross Lites class eligibility effective for the 2010 Supercross season. Bold lettering indicates a change in the previous requirements and eligibility.
AMA Supercross Class Eligibility
To be eligible to enter the Supercross class at an AMA Supercross an FIM World Championship event in 2010 a rider must hold an AMA Supercross class license and an FIM license.
All license applicants must be at least 17 years of age at the time of application.
- Beginning with the 2011 season, all license applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
- Applicants who do not meet the minimum age requirement at the time of license application, but who met the minimum age requirements and had been issued an AMA Supercross, AMA Supercross Lites or AMA Pro Motocross license in the previous year, will be grandfathered and issued a license if one of the below requirements is met.
In addition to the age requirements, riders must meet one of the following criteria to be eligible for an AMA Supercross class license.
- Qualified into the evening program in the AMA Supercross class at least one time during the 2008 or 2009 AMA Supercross season.
- Qualified for at least one AMA Supercross Lites Main Event during the 2007, 2008 or 2009 AMA Supercross season. This does not include the Canadian round in 2007 or 2008.
- Earned at least one point in the 2008 or 2009 AMA Motocross Championship in the 250 or 450 class.
- Earned 50 AMA Arenacross class points in the 2008-09 or the 2009-10 AMA Arenacross Series.
- Qualified for at least one AMA Supercross class Main Event during the 2005, 2006 or 2007 seasons.
- Qualified for at least three AMA Supercross Lites Main Events during the 2006 season.
- Hold a current FIM Motocross World Championship license.
AMA Supercross Lites Class Eligibility
All license applicants must be at least 17 years of age at the time of application.
- Beginning with the 2011 season, all license applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
- Applicants who do not meet the minimum age requirement at the time of license application, but who met the minimum age requirements and had been issued an AMA Supercross, AMA Supercross Lites or AMA Pro Motocross license in the previous year, will be grandfathered and issued a license if one of the below requirements is met.
In addition to the age requirements, riders must meet one of the following criteria to be eligible for an AMA Supercross Lites class license.
- Earn at least 75 points (at the time of application) in the AMA Pro/Am Motocross Series.
- Finish in the top 15 overall at the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship in 2008 or 2009 in either the 250A, 450A or Pro Sport class.
- Finish in the top 8 overall in the AMA Amateur Arenacross World Finals in 2008 or 2009 in the Expert class Main Event.
- Earn 35 AMA Arenacross class points in the 2008-09 or 2009-10 AMA Arenacross Series.
- Earn 60 AMA Arenacross Lites class points in the 2008-09 or 2009-10 AMA Arenacross Series.
- Qualified into the evening program in the AMA Supercross Lites class at least one time during the 2008 or 2009 Supercross season.
- Qualified for the national motos in at least one round of the 2008 or 2009 AMA Motocross Championship in the 250 or 450 class.
- Qualified for at least one Main Event in the AMA Supercross or AMA Supercross Lites class during the 2005, 2006 or 2007 seasons.
- Riders who earned a 2009 Supercross Lites endorsement, but failed to qualify for any evening programs due to injury, may reapply for their license based on the criteria under which it was originally earned.
AMA Supercross Lites East/West Championship Guidelines
- Riders must designate the region in which they intend to participate prior to the first event of the season.
- Once a rider has designated his or her region, the rider may not transfer to the opposite region in the Supercross Lites class unless the rider is injured and failed to qualify for an evening program. The request must be submitted in writing to AMA Racing. The rider must remain in the new region for the rest of the season.
- Riders who have earned an AMA Motocross (450) class Championship, AMA Supercross class Championship or FIM MX1 World Championship are not eligible to compete in the Supercross Lites East/West Championship.
- Effective with the 2007 season points, riders earning at least 120 AMA Supercross Lites Championship points in an eight-race season, or 105 AMA Supercross Lites Championship points in a seven-race season in three seasons of AMA Supercross Lites competition will be ineligible for the AMA Supercross Lites class.
- If the number of events in each of the AMA Supercross Lites class regions is different, the number of events used for points will be based on the smaller number. (For example, if there are eight West events and seven East events, the West riders would throw out their worst finish for a maximum total of seven events.)
- A rider may move to the AMA Supercross class at any time provided he or she is eligible for the AMA Supercross class, as outlined in the AMA Supercross licensing regulations.
- AMA Supercross Lites Regional Champions may defend their championship’s the following season, with the following clarifications:
- Champions may ride either region the following year but must only compete with the No. 1 plate when defending in the region in which they won the Championship.
- A rider who wins an AMA Supercross Lites Championship will be eligible to participate in the AMA Supercross Lites class for a maximum of three years total regardless of what year he or she won the title. (For example, if a rider wins the Championship in his or her third year of AMA Supercross Lites competition, he or she will be ineligible for the AMA Supercross Lites class regardless of points and therefore not eligible to defend his or her AMA Supercross Lites Championship.)
- After a rider wins a second Championship, in either region, the rider will be ineligible for the AMA Supercross Lites class, regardless of points or number of years in class.
- Riders who are advanced to the AMA Supercross class through points or Championships won will not be eligible to return to the Supercross Lites class.
- Riders finishing outside the top 20 of the AMA Supercross class points in 2007, 2008 or 2009 will be eligible to ride the AMA Supercross Lites class. Designated AMA Supercross Lites riders who competed in the AMA Supercross class in select 2009 events will remain eligible for the AMA Supercross Lites class in 2010, provided they have not exceeded any other AMA Supercross Lites eligibility rules or have been advanced to the AMA Supercross class through points or championships won.