The AMA, also known as the American Motorcycle Association, was first founded in the year 1924 and currently headquartered in Pickerington, OH. This is a nonprofit organization that has numerous motorcyclists that host events and fight for motorcyclist’s legal rights around the country. A few year later in 1974, the AMA introduced the AMA Supercross Championship. This Event would soon lead to one of the toughest off-road championships in the world consisting of multiple different series.
Monster Energy Supercross is the first series of the year
starting in early January and held indoor large football and baseball venues
around the country. Supercross consists of a man-made course with extremely
steep jumps, whoops, turns, and other obstacles. This series uses a 20-lap race
format to determine the winner of the main event. Monster Energy Supercross is
a total of 17 races that are scheduled nearly every weekend. The rider with the
most total points and the end of those 17 races is crowned the Supercross
Champion for the given year.
Motocross is the second half of the year’s race season that is
usually made up of the same athletes from the Supercross series. Riders receive
about a month break at the end of the Supercross season to prepare for the
12-race Motocross series that begins in May. Motocross events are held on
man-made courses that are built on natural terrain with similar obstacles but
on a much larger scale. Riders compete in two 30 min motos, to determine that
weekends overall winner. The rider with the most points at the end of the 12
race series is crowned the Motocross Champion for the given year.
Arenacross is a series developed
by the AMA which closely mimics the Supercross-style courses and scoring. These
Events are down scaled and held in smaller venues such as ice hockey arenas and
basketball stadiums. This series was developed by the AMA for a way amateur riders
can transition into the main events of Supercross and Motocross.
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