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HONDA/FOX RED RIDERS 2000 TEAM
From the beginning, the history of modern American motocross has been written in Honda red. Measured over the final two decades of the 20th century, no team has so thoroughly dominated the sport.
The story started in 1974 when Honda's Marty Smith won the American Motorcyclist Association's first 125 National Championship on a CR125. In 1981, Honda-powered Trophee des Nations and Motocross des Nations teams established Honda and America as the international motocross superpower by beating an international field of world-class riders.
Beginning in 1982, Team Honda won at least one AMA Pro motocross title every year for 15 straight years. That includes winning the triple crown (three titles in a single year) seven separate times. For an encore Team Honda nailed down the ultimate achievement in 1986 by making a clean sweep of all four AMA Pro titles: 250 Supercross, plus the 125, 250 and 500 outdoor National series crowns. In 1991, Team Honda rider Jean-Michel Bayle pulled the ultimate motocross hat trick, winning the 250 Supercross, 250 National and 500 National Motocross Championships. All told, Honda has won almost three-quarters of the AMA Pro motocross titles over the last 18 years--40 of the last 66 AMA motocross championships.
In 1999, Red Riders ruled the first round of Supercross' 25th season, finishing 1-2-3-4. They took home seven of the season's 16 Supercross main events and a total of 25 podium finishes, saturating the final Supercross championship point standings by nailing down three of the top-five slots. This year Team Honda has all the tools to do better than that.
Armed with new-from-the-knobbies-up Honda CR250R race bikes--the only bike in the field with an advanced aluminum frame--the three-man team of Georgian Ezra Lusk, Mississippi's Kevin Windham and double FIM Grand Prix motocross World Champion Sebastien Tortelli of France are ready to leave a trail of Honda red across motocross and Supercross victory podiums from Anaheim, California, to Unadilla, New York.
WINDHAM_C
HONDA/FOX RED RIDERS 2000 TEAM
From the beginning, the history of modern American motocross has been written in Honda red. Measured over the final two decades of the 20th century, no team has so thoroughly dominated the sport.
The story started in 1974 when Honda's Marty Smith won the American Motorcyclist Association's first 125 National Championship on a CR125. In 1981, Honda-powered Trophee des Nations and Motocross des Nations teams established Honda and America as the international motocross superpower by beating an international field of world-class riders.
Beginning in 1982, Team Honda won at least one AMA Pro motocross title every year for 15 straight years. That includes winning the triple crown (three titles in a single year) seven separate times. For an encore Team Honda nailed down the ultimate achievement in 1986 by making a clean sweep of all four AMA Pro titles: 250 Supercross, plus the 125, 250 and 500 outdoor National series crowns. In 1991, Team Honda rider Jean-Michel Bayle pulled the ultimate motocross hat trick, winning the 250 Supercross, 250 National and 500 National Motocross Championships. All told, Honda has won almost three-quarters of the AMA Pro motocross titles over the last 18 years--40 of the last 66 AMA motocross championships.
In 1999, Red Riders ruled the first round of Supercross' 25th season, finishing 1-2-3-4. They took home seven of the season's 16 Supercross main events and a total of 25 podium finishes, saturating the final Supercross championship point standings by nailing down three of the top-five slots. This year Team Honda has all the tools to do better than that.
Armed with new-from-the-knobbies-up Honda CR250R race bikes--the only bike in the field with an advanced aluminum frame--the three-man team of Georgian Ezra Lusk, Mississippi's Kevin Windham and double FIM Grand Prix motocross World Champion Sebastien Tortelli of France are ready to leave a trail of Honda red across motocross and Supercross victory podiums from Anaheim, California, to Unadilla, New York.