just roll with it lightning and lockdown

#Just roll with it lightning and lockdown series#

Ron Lechien : The Dogger was the first of the amateur-to-pro teenaged phenom program that we know so well today. Still, he’s a hero for doing what he did, and he also had a style and personality to go with it. As such, Lackey doesn’t have the place in the traditional record book that he should, because he was absent from the AMA scene in his prime years. Jett Lawrence is becoming the latest in a long line-riders that have popularity, style and a fan base that stretched beyond just mere results.īrad Lackey: As mentioned above, Brad was winning before AMA Nationals and AMA Supercross were “the thing.” Then he dominated that ’72 season and left to pursue the GPs. Brad Lackey is an original hero of motocross. Brad finally accomplished his goal in 1982. This was back when Europeans were clearly the dominant players in the sport.

After winning the first national he ever entered (the Cal-Expo race in Sacramento on May 14, 1972) as well as the first AMA 500 National Championship, he toiled through Europe for ten years with a goal of becoming America’s first World Motocross Champion.

#Just roll with it lightning and lockdown series#

Lackey was a God in the Northern California area even before the AMA National Motocross Series ever began, but he set his sights so high that American racing wasn’t even enough.

In fact, it may make this even better, because we’re familiar with the feeling and we know what it’s like when lightning gets captured in the bottle.Īs an example, before Jett Lawrence jetted off with his third and fourth straight moto wins to begin his 450 career, Northern California’s own Brad Lackey kicked the day off as Grand Marshall of this year’s Hangtown Classic. We’ve been here before, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting.