The Trophee des Nations
by Davey CoombS
Photo from the Dick Miller Archives
If you’ve ever seen the term Trophee des Nations in the magazine or at Racer X Online, you might be wondering what exactly that was, and why trophy is spelled funny. The Trophee des Nations was actually a companion race to what we now know as the FIM Motocross of Nations (though it was anglicized back in the ’90s from its original Motocross des Nations).
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