Tag: Motocross

Part 5: Carmichael is on to ‘thumping’ but injury derails his season Like that feel-good training montage scene from a sports movie, they all stared at their stopwatches with widened eyes. Then they looked at each other in surprise. Ricky was always on the clock. His people timed every single lap he rode, even when … Continued

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