Monster hunter riders english7/6/2023 It’s amazing to think that those first two also feature three completely separate continents, let alone countries. Here’s the last time an all non-USA podium occurred in Supercross – Phoenix 2012, with Dean Wilson flamked by Marvin Musquin and Tyla Rattray.īizarrely, there has never been an all-European podium in AMA Supercross, with South Africans Tyla Rattray & Grant Langston plus Australian Chad Reed and Costa Rican Ernesto Fonseca all contributing to those three previous non-USA sweeps. Here is your run-down of the near-misses, and when it did actually happen.Ģ023 – 4 th March, Daytona (East) – 1 st Hunter Lawrence, 2 nd Max AnstieĢ023 – 4 th Feb, Houston (East) – 1 st Hunter Lawrence, 2 nd Max AnstieĢ021 – 24 th April, SLC 1 (East)– 1 st Jo Shimoda (Japan), 2 nd Jett LawrenceĢ013 – 2 nd Feb, San Francisco (West) – 1 st Roczen, 2 nd Martin Davalos (Ecuador)Ģ012 –14 th Jan, Phoenix (West) – 1 st Dean Wilson, 2 nd Marvin Musquin, 3 rd Tyla RattrayĢ002 –7th Feb, Minnesota (East) – 1 st Chad Reed, 2 nd Grant Langston, 3 rd Steve BonifaceĢ001 –21 st Apr, Irving (West) – 1 st Grant Langston, 2 nd Rodrig Thain, 3 rd Ernesto Fonseca In the 250 classes, where overseas riders have often come to cut their teeth before moving on to the big bikes, the all-foreigner podium has happened three times. Here’s a brief list of the races where it got close:Ģ021 –1 st May, Salt Lake City – Roczen 1 st, Musquin 2 nd in the final round.Ģ019 – 23 rd March, Seattle – Musquin 1 st, Roczen 2 nd, although Marv got penalised.Ģ018 – 24 th March, Indianapolis – Musquin 1 st, Wilson 2 nd – the closest that a Brit has come to a premier class Supercross win!Ģ016 – 13 th March, Toronto – 1 st Roczen, 2 nd Musquin – very nearly all non-USA in a non-USA event!Ģ014 – 1 st Feb, Anaheim 3 – 1 st Reed, 2 nd RoczenĢ004 – 8 th Feb, San Francisco – 1 st Reed, 2 nd VuilleminĢ004 – 4 th Jan, Anaheim 1 – 1 st Reed, 2 nd VuilleminĢ003 – 8 th Feb, San Diego – 1 st Reed, 2 nd Vuillemin Even when Factory Yamaha teammates Chad Reed & Frenchman David Vuillemin got a few 1-2 results, no other foreigner could join them up there. Despite many close calls, especially in the years when Chad Reed from Australia, Marvin Musquin the Frenchman, and Ken Roczen the “German Chocolate” were all in contention, there has never quite been a clean sweep of the podium for non-American riders. Jean-Michel Bayle from France took it to the Americans in the early 1990s but was distinctly a lone warrior. Pierre Karsmakers, from the Netherlands, was the first Supercross champion, but in that short three-race 1975 calendar he wasn’t joined by any other foreign imports. Even though they are all native English speakers, it still doesn’t take away from the fact that if there were flags above the podium, the Stars n’ Bars wouldn’t have been flown.Īmazingly, this feat has never occurred in the premier class. Max Anstie became the first ever English rider to win any form of AMA Supercross – Dean Wilson is from the UK but is from that fiercely-patriotic northern section called Scotland, fact fans – and was joined by the two Lawrence brothers who are, of course, from Australia. For the first time in over a decade, and for only the third time in AMA Supercross history, the 250cc Podium finishers at the East Rutherford East/West 250cc Supercross featured not a single American-born rider amongst them.
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