How to Get an AMA Pro Motocross License

Video Transcript

"Back in nineteen-ninety-six, when I first started racing Supercross, pretty much all you had to do to get your Supercross license was fill out a paper and send in a bunch of money. They gave it to anybody and everybody. Nowadays it's not quite so easy. The first step in getting your Supercross license is actually getting your Motocross license. There are several series you can ride to accumulate points to get your Motocross license. There is also the AMA National Arenacross Series which will give you points to earn not only your Motocross license but you can also earn your Supercross license directly through that. If you have your Motocross license and your planning on trying to race Supercross the following year. You need to go out and get top twenty in one of the AMA professional Motocross races which will earn you one point for the following season. Then you will be awarded your Supercross license. The only other way to get a Supercross license would be do the National Arenacross Series and either win an event or finish top five in the series. Which is a pretty tall order because there are a lot of ex-Supercross racers and very, very good riders in their own right, racing that series. If your interested in attaining your Supercross license, the best place to start is with the AMA, the America Motorcyclist Association. You can reach them at one eight hundred AMA JOIN and get kind of a rule book and all the statistics, a series schedule for all the qualifier races. They have qualifier races pretty much all over. They are all AMA sanctioned events. There's regional qualifiers for the Laredo Land Dude Ranch amateur national. There are several series that are just dedicated points earning series that will let you attain your Motocross license and give you that opportunity to earn an outdoor point, therefore, gain your Supercross license. So it's a long and rocky road to get there. When you do get there, your racing with, you know, the best riders in the world and some of the coolest tracks and the nicest stadiums you can imagine. It's definitely worth the trouble. You put in your work and you know, someday you might be racing against James Stewart and Chad Reed and hopefully, still Ryan Clark."