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MX Sports' State Of The Sport Address
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X Sports, producer of the
AMA Amateur National Moto-
cross Championship, provided a
video update with Event Director
Tim Cotter, who went over the
various options for the Area Quali-
fiers, Regional Championships
and the National Championship at
Loretta Lynn's.
MX Sports says it wants to be
as transparent as possible during
this current situation, therefore
every Monday the Race Leader-
ship Team (RLT), which consists
of representatives from the AMA,
MX Sports and MX Sports Pro
Racing, have been updating
racers and their families with
RLT Competition Bulletins. The
RLT will reconvene each Mon-
day to review the upcoming race
schedule, making adjustments as
needed, and will work with event
organizers to reschedule events
when possible. Check out the
RLT Competition Bulletin 2020-3:
Tentative Race Dates Reserved.
MX Sports Release: The MX
Sports #SafeToRace strategy
has been created, and we will
go racing when it is safe to race.
At this point, as it relates to the
AMA Amateur National program,
we have several plans in place
to move forward. Each plan has
been developed based on an
anticipated Safe to Race date.
Please see below for a detailed
plan of the scenarios:
Plan A: Adopted the initial
cancelation and postponement
of the all Area Qualifiers thru the
month of April.
Plan B: All Area Qualifiers will
start at the beginning of May
and run thru the first weekend
in June. This will require several
Area Qualifiers to run in the
same region and on the same
weekend. As part of this plan,
the Regional schedule will be
modified and include the July
4th weekend. The National
at Loretta Lynn's will race as
scheduled. However, please
know that if we cannot start
racing in the first few weeks of
May, we will have to move on to
Plan C.
Plan C: Will begin by remov-
ing the Area Qualifier system
and move to a Super Regional
schedule. This would require
Three Regional Championship
events to run in each Region: A
Youth, Amateur and Vet Region-
al. Several of the Youth Classes
will be moved to the Amateur
Regional and all of the Vet
Classes will create the Vet Re-
gional. The National at Loretta
Lynn's will race as scheduled.
Plan D: Will begin by remov-
ing the Area Qualifier and
Regional Championship system
and expand the National Cham-
pionship into two weeks of
racing. One week of racing for
Youth and another week of rac-
ing for Amateur. This plan is a
bit down the road and a lot can
and will happen between now
and then. CN
MX Sports gave us an update
on Area Qualifiers, Regional
Championships and the National
Championship at Loretta Lynn's.
