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Cycle News 2022 Issue 42 October 18

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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T he 2023 SuperMotocross World Champion will be crowned at the place that most supercross fans recognize as the birthplace of supercross, the Los Angeles Memorial Coli- seum. It was here that the first supercross race (though it was simply called indoor motocross at the time) was held in 1972 in front of approximately 30,000 MX fans. A 16-year-old kid from San Diego took the win on a Ya- maha, going 2-2-2 in the race's three-moto format. Marty Tripes beat some of the top riders in the world that night from both the U.S. and Europe, including New York's Jimmy Weinert and World Champion Torsten Hallman and future World Champ Hakan An- dersson, both of Sweden. Although it was dubbed as the Superbowl of Motocross, the race, which took place again in 1973 (Tripes also won but this time on a Honda), spawned what is now the AMA Super- cross Championship, which hit the ground running in 1974 as a multi-race series. The L.A. Coli- seum has hosted several Su- percross Championship races over the years. Most of them happened in the 1980s. The last L.A. Coliseum-hosted AMA Supercross race took place on January 21, 1998. Many historic races have been held at this iconic stadium since that first race in 1972, but the last one held here in 1998 is arguably CN III ARCHIVES P122 BY KIT PALMER COLISEUM SURPRISES

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