Tag: 2000smoto

Part 4: Honda offers Carmichael 6.2 million reasons to stay Gary Christopher spent 35 years working at Honda and literally saw it all as far as Honda’s involvement in motocross went. He started two years before Gary Jones won the 1973 Pro Motocross championship on a 250 Elsinore, the company’s first title in the USA. … Continued

Part 3: Ricky Carmichael’s agent drops a bomb on Honda David Moorman was good enough in his youth to attend Notre Dame on a golf scholarship. He graduated in 1984 and in 1987 earned a juris doctorate from the University’s law school. The Muncie, Indiana-born Moorman spent two years practicing law in Texas before he … Continued

Part 2: Honda snatches Ricky Carmichael away from Kawasaki Almost four years before Chuck Miller’s job was to keep Ricky Carmichael on a Honda, he devised a plan to get Carmichael to switch to Honda. The light bulb moment came while sitting on a hillside at Spring Creek Motocross Park in Millville, Minnesota. It was … Continued