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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1991]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1991
April 28, 2022
What started in 1972 as a quaint, scattered affair of four different championships had boiled down to a thriving series that overlapped with AMA Supercross, now the biggest series in dirt bike racing.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1990]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1990
April 28, 2022
Motocross was evolving quickly, especially in those early years when every race was like a lesson in going faster, with better equipment, on tougher tracks. By 1990, it was all beginning to really look a lot like what we have today.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1989]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1989
April 28, 2022
After Rick Johnson's career altering wrist injury, the door was swung wide open.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1988]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1988
April 27, 2022
In 1988, tragedy shrouded AMA Supercross and Motocross, but the on-track action was as good as ever.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1987]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1987
April 26, 2022
Today, the countdown takes us back to one of the more complicated years for the sport.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1986]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1986
April 25, 2022
At the end of the year, Team's USA's trio of Johnson, Bailey, and O’Mara would put down the most dominant win ever in Motocross des Nations history.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1985]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1985
April 25, 2022
The two things to remember most about 1985 are the fact that Bob “Hurricane” Hannah won the last AMA Supercross of his career at Daytona, and 1985 was the last year of the works bikes.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1984]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1984
April 21, 2022
A very confusing year for everyone, including a conflict between the AMA and the supercross promoters of the time. Then two riders wore #1 in the 500 Nationals!
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1983]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1983
April 20, 2022
The 1983 season was going to bring something different to the table. The rider with the most points in their respective class in both AMA Supercross and Motocross for 1983 would be named the AMA/Wrangler Grand National Champion.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1982]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1982
April 19, 2022
Building on the successes of the previous year’s Team USA effort at the FIM Motocross and Trophee des Nations races, the overall confidence and competitiveness of the Americans could be felt at many levels—and on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1981]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1981
April 19, 2022
One big thing happened in 1981 that helped define the year in American motocross, as well as its future: an underdog Team USA lineup of four young Americans shocked the world by winning both the FIM Trophee des Nations and FIM Motocross des Nations.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1980]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1980
April 18, 2022
Nineteen-eighty saw both AMA Motocross and Supercross gaining more traction, but unfortunately, the year ended with tragedy: the passing of highly respected veteran Gaylon Mosier in a cycling accident.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1979]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1979
April 16, 2022
The “Hurricane” was at the peak of his powers, but all of the sudden the most dominant rider in American MX and SX history to that point was knocked out for more than a year after a serious leg injury while water-skiing.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1978]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1978
April 15, 2022
Going into the 1978 season Yamaha had two defending champions on the AMA circuit (Hannah was AMA Supercross #1 and Glover was 125cc AMA Motocross #1), and ‘78 was simply the year of the Yamahas.
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![50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1977]()
50 Years of Pro Motocross: 1977
April 14, 2022
The year all three AMA Motocross titles went down to their very last rounds, and we saw the single most controversial pit board in motocross history: “Let Brock Bye.”
