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The AMA Supercross Championship is an American motorcycle racing series. Founded by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1974, the AMA Supercross Championship race was held from January to early May. Supercross is a branch of motocross sport, which takes place in a natural field. Supercross racing, while related, involves an off-road motorcycle on a manmade man-made lane made up of steep jumps and obstacles. Tracks are usually built inside sports stadiums. The convenient access and convenience of the stadium premises helped Supercross outperform motocross as the attraction of audiences in the United States in the late 1970s.

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Histori

The first motocross race to be held on the race track in the stadium took place on August 28, 1948, at the Buffalo Stadium on the outskirts of Paris, Montrouge. As the popularity of motorcross surged in the United States in the late 1960s, Bill France added a professional motocross race to the Daytona Beach Bicycle Week schedule 1971. The 1972 race was held at the Daytona International Speedway on an artificial track on the grass surface between the main stand and pit lane. Jimmy Weinert won 250 classes and Mark Blackwell is the winner of 500 classes.

The event that paved the way for a stadium-based motocross event was the 1972 race held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, promoted by Mike Goodwin and Terry Tiernan, then president of the AMA, and won by 16-year-old Marty Tripes. It was billed as "Super Bowl of Motocross" which led to the coining of the term "Supercross". The Super Bowl of Motocross II held the following year is a greater success and, eventually evolving into the AMA Supercross championships held at stadiums throughout the United States and Canada.

Motocross and Supercross eventually deviated into various forms of racing, with the latter displacing the Grand Prix world championship as the main off-road motorcycle racing series.

Originally, each of the AMA Supercross races was promoted by different companies, especially Mike Goodwin in the West, Pace Motorsports in the Midwest and Southwest, and Super Sports in the East. In the 1980s, Mickey Thompson (MTEG) partnered Goodwin, then took over the West. In the 1990s, MTEG went bankrupt and Super Sports sold its business to SRO/Pace, becoming the sole AMA Supercross promoter. The company was purchased by SFX Entertainment in 1998, and Clear Channel bought the latter in 2000. The Clear Channel event division was split into Live Nation in 2005, and the motorsports division was sold to Feld Entertainment in 2008, currently promoting the championship.

While growing consistently since the 70s, in the early 21st century Supercross' popularity really took off. In the United States, today's Supercross race is now some of the most popular races held regularly.

The American Motorcyclist Association delivers three Supercross Champions Championships each year. They are 450cc (known as a two-stroke 250cc), and both East and West divisions at 250cc (is 125cc two-stroke). World Supercross Champions is named by other racing organizations around the world. The classification of supercross racing is governed by the displacement of a motorcycle engine based on a two-stroke engine until 2006, because the four-stroke engine replaces the two-stroke engine. Since then, the AMA has labeled the class with four-stroke displacement. From 2007 to 2012, a nomenclature formula similar to INDYCAR was used, with the 450cc class known as Supercross and 250cc as Supercross Lites. Starting in 2013, AMA and Feld Motor Sports return to the traditional nomenclature, based on a four-stroke engine - 450cc (known as "MX1" in Europe), and 250cc displacement rate (also known as "MX2"). 450cc champ is always regarded as the most prestigious.

In addition to race points, the US Open Supercross is a special invitation race held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas from 1998 to 2009, featuring a wallet worth $ 100,000 for the event winner. Since 2011, the Monster Energy Cup was held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. A $ 1.0 million wallet is available to motorists who win all three leading races. Ryan Villopoto won the 2011 event as did Marvin Musquin in 2017 edition

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Calendar

The AMA series starts in early January and continues until early May. It consists of 17 rounds in the 450cc Class, and 9 rounds in the 250cc West Class and 9 rounds at 250cc East Class, the twelfth round in Indianapolis in April and the final round in Las Vegas in May has East-West Shootout, and 14 large stadiums and one permanent racing circuit (in temporary stadium settings) from all over North America.

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Event format

Each structured meeting is similar to short track motor racing with two hot races and entertaining races in each class. In both classes, every hot race is five minutes plus one round. Each hot feature is 20 riders (one may have 21 riders depending on qualifying results), with the top nine advancing into features. The other 22-23 riders degraded into the entertainment race, known as the Last Chance Qualifier, which was three minutes plus one lap, with the top four advancing into the feature.

In the 450cc class, a competitor placed highest in points, provided he is in the top ten in national points, and has not qualified after a warming or entertaining race race, will receive a temporary race for the feature. The featured race is 15 minutes plus one lap in the 250cc class, and 20 minutes plus one lap for the 450cc class, with 25 championship points to win the race. In three races in 2018 (the second Anaheim, as well as the rounds of Minneapolis and Atlanta), a three-hot format will be used (six, ten, and twelve minutes for 250cc, eight, twelve, and fifteen minutes for 450cc) which is similar to the individual Monster Energy Cup's individual heat rating will determine the overall winner of the race.

For the final East-West shooting season in Las Vegas for the 250cc class that begins in May 2011, the top 20 players in each region will compete in the non-championship event for the 15 minute hot race. The standard rules apply, with the feature race being 10 rounds. In 2016, East-West Shootout becomes a point-paying round where the second winners of the region will be determined in the same features. Starting 2018, a joint East-West Shootout will also be held in mid-season, in the Indianapolis round.

Beginning with Season 2012, the first-placed rider on Lead Series Points will use the red slab for the race in the Series.

If at any point during Heat Races, LCQs or Feature Races, that the race is marked with red-flag in less than 3 rounds, the race will be a full restart. However, if the race is marked with more than 3 laps completed but less than 90% of the total race distance and after a minimum of 10 minutes delay, the race will be a stop-up activation with the racer lining up from their previous lap away.

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Track

Among the obstacles, the rider must navigate every lap. This track takes a combination of obstacles such as the whoop section (where the rider skimmed the length of the double mound), the rhythm section (a series of irregular jumps with various combination options), and triple jumps (three successive jumps in a normal riding) are clear at one jump 70 feet or more). Many turns have bundled embankments, but some are flat. It takes about five hundred trucks full of dirt to form a supercross path. Soil conditions can be dense, soft, muddy, sandy, rutted, or a combination of both.

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