In wrapping up the 2024 Monster Energy
AMA Supercross Championship, the rookie
Jett Lawrence, the youngest rider in the field,
reminded everyone else that we’re getting old.

WORDS: DAVEY COOMBS
PHOTOS: ALIGN MEDIA

There have been a lot of celebrations in our sport lately. And not just the post-race championship celebration ones where happy riders and race teams do tire-slaying burnouts while revving their engines to the moon. Rather, those big milestone and anniversary moments, fifty years of this bike model or that gear company and, most recently, the 50th season of Monster Energy AMA Supercross. It’s all happening now because our sport really started to take shape (at least in America) during the early 1970s, on the heels of the seminal motorcycling movie On Any Sunday. Besides, everyone loves a party, right? There’s just one overhanging cloud to all of these good times, and that is the realization that motocross/supercross as we know it is no longer this bright and shiny new thing. Because after some five decades of fun, moto as a whole is basically middle-aged now, and while the big five-oh is a nice round number to celebrate, it comes with a whole new set of challenges.