SuperMotocross World Championship

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SuperMotocross World Championship
Category Motorcycle racing
Country United States
Inaugural season2023
Classes
  • 450cc
  • 250cc
Constructors
Riders' champion
•450cc
Jett Lawrence
•250cc
Haiden Deegan
Official website www.supermotocross.com
Motorsport current event.svg Current season

The SuperMotocross World Championship is the premier combined discipline world championship of off-road motorcycle racing. [1] [2] [3] Conceived in 2023 after the AMA Supercross Championship lost its FIM World Championship status, the series consists of the aforementioned Supercross series and the AMA Motocross Championship, followed by two playoff races and a final to determine the SuperMotocross world champion. [4] [5]

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Background

AMA Supercross Championship

The AMA Supercross Championship (commercially known as Monster Energy AMA Supercross) is the premier American stadium motorcycle racing series. Founded by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1974, the AMA Supercross Championship races are held from January through early May. Supercross is a variant of motocross which involves off-road motorcycles on a constructed dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles; the tracks are usually constructed inside a sports stadium. The easy accessibility and comfort of these stadium venues helped supercross surpass off-road motocross as a spectator attraction in the United States by the late 1970s. [6]

The sport of Supercross is best described as motocross racing that takes place within the confines of a sports stadium. The tracks are typically shorter in length than a standard motocross track. They feature a combination of man-made obstacles such as whoop sections (where riders skim along the tops of multiple bumps), rhythm sections (irregular series of jumps with a variety of combination options), and triple jumps (three jumps in a row that riders normally clear in a single leap of 70 feet or more). Many of the turns have banked berms, but some are flat. It takes roughly five hundred truckloads of dirt to make up a supercross track. Soil conditions can be hard-packed, soft, muddy, sandy, rutted, or any combination thereof.

AMA Motocross Championship

The AMA Motocross Championship (commercially known as Pro Motocross Championship) is the American national outdoor motorcycle racing series. The motocross race series was founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1972. [7] The series is the premier motocross competition in the United States and is sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing and managed by MX Sports Pro Racing.

Format

The Series will be held from January until October, consisting of: [8] [9]

Champions

SuperMotocross champions are crowned each year, alongside the champions of the individual series which will continue to be awarded.

SuperMotocross World Champions (2023–present)
Year450cc Class450cc Individual Series Champions250cc Class250cc Individual Series Champions
SX ChampionMX ChampionSX ChampionMX Champion
2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jett Lawrence Flag of the United States.svg Chase Sexton Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jett Lawrence Flag of the United States.svg Haiden Deegan Flag of Australia (converted).svg Hunter Lawrence(EAST)

Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jett Lawrence(WEST)

Flag of Australia (converted).svg Hunter Lawrence
2024 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jett Lawrence Flag of France.svg Tom Vialle(EAST)

Flag of the United States.svg RJ Hampshire(WEST)

Statistics

SuperMotocross all time wins list

450 ClassWins250 ClassWins
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jett Lawrence 2 Flag of the United States.svg Haiden Deegan 1
Flag of the United States.svg Chase Sexton 1 Flag of Japan.svg Jo Shimoda 1
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Hunter Lawrence 1

Television Coverage

In 2023, the inaugural season will see four broadcast partners, all from the NBC family of networks; NBC, USA Network, CNBC and Peacock.

NetworkCoverage
NBC Select races, including two Supercross races live and two on delay, two Motocross races live and the second SuperMotocross Playoff on delay
USA Network Supercross season opener and finale live, two Motocross races on delay and SuperMotocross Playoff 1 and Finale live
Peacock Every race across all series live
CNBC Every race across all series on next day replay

Source: [10]

See also

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