{"id":1913,"date":"2010-12-23T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:33:45","slug":"motocross-plans-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/motocross-plans-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Motocross Plans for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only been to one motocross event, and I&#8217;ve certainly never ridden motocross, though it looks like a hoot and a half, but maybe I&#8217;ll at least get to another one in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/images2\/ThunderValleyMX-004.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Motocross racers at the start\" \/>I got an email today from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amadirectlink.com\/news\/story.asp?id=2419\" target=\"_blank\">American Motorcyclist Association<\/a> (AMA) announcing their Pro\/Am motocross racing schedule for next year and one of the events will be here in Colorado. They&#8217;ve got 53 events on their calendar and number 20 will be in Brush on May 30. I&#8217;ve put it on my calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing all that much about Pro\/Am racing, I&#8217;ll pass along to you what the AMA says about it. First off, these are the events where amateur racers &#8220;earn the credentials to line up at an AMA Supercross or AMA Pro Racing Motocross event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, &#8220;The AMA Racing Pro\/Am program is critical to the natural progression of a rider through the amateur ranks of AMA amateur motocross all the way up to getting their AMA Supercross license,&#8221; says AMA Director of Supercross Kevin Crowther.<\/p>\n<p>To be considered for a professional motocross license, competitors must have earned at least 75 advancement points (at the time of application) in AMA Racing Pro\/Am motocross events in a continuous 12-month period. Points are based on overall finishes in either the 250 Pro\/Am and Open Pro\/Am classes. Points from each class are not combined.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it&#8217;s about for the guys on the track, for the spectators&#8211;I&#8217;m thinking&#8211;it has got to be fun. I&#8217;m going to plan to go and presuming I do you can bet I&#8217;ll be right back here telling about it.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>They don&#8217;t expect you to finish. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s the Dakar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only been to one motocross event, and I&#8217;ve certainly never ridden motocross, though it looks like a hoot and a half, but maybe I&#8217;ll at least get to another one in 2011. I got an email today from the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) announcing their Pro\/Am motocross racing schedule for next year and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-motorcyclist-association","category-motorcycle-racing","tag-motocross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}