Reason For Being

Amateur motocross lost a great friend when Loretta Lynn passed away on October 4, at the age of 90, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. For more than 40 years, the world-famous country music singer had opened her family’s Ranch to countless motocross families for the annual AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, which has been held there every summer since 1982. For the first half of her life, Loretta probably didn’t know motocross racing even existed, but she spent the second half of it as a gracious host to the big race that is known in motocross parlance by her name itself: Loretta Lynn’s.