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The history of motocross is a very rich one, it started in Europe as scrambles in the 1940's
culminating with the formation of the Motocross of Nations which is basically the Olympics
for motorcycles in 1947. The world sanctioning body for motorcycling, the FIM or the Federation
for International Motorcycling, in 1957, started the World Motocross Grand Prix Series, which
was the pinnacle at that time. In 1970, several of the European riders sent over to America
to do some races called the Trans AMA Series, which was kind of a, a national series over
here. That sparked motorcycling here to the point where in 1972 the AMA or the American
Motorcyclist Association started the series that is now the AMA Motocross Nationals. After
1972, motorcycling in America in general just gained huge popularity, all through the eighties
with riders like Johnny O'Mara, Rick Johnson, Broc Glover and David Bailey, really set a
precedent and popularized almost to, to mainstream stardom, some of the top riders in, in motocross.
And nowadays we have the American Supercross Series, which is the, basically the pinnacle
of racing in the world, as well as the AMA Motocross National Series, that spurred from
the original 1972 series that they promoted and today, the United States is, is a hotbed
for motocross, attracting the top riders from all over the world. The FIM Series in Europe
is still going strong. The Grand Prixs have a lot of very, very talented riders but it
seems like a lot of the top riders over there will eventually migrate to the United States,
which has been for awhile, heralded as the, the hotbed for, for motocross racing in the
world and kind of the standard by which everybody's measured.