First Oz winner in American SX
Aug 01, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS // ANDY WIGAN
PHOTOS //
GEOFF MEYER
On February 2, 2002, at Indianapolis’s RCA Dome, in front of 60,000 screaming fans, 19-year-old Chad Reed won the opening round of the 125cc East AMA Supercross Championship. In doing so, he became the first Australian to win an AMA supercross race; an accomplishment that fulfilled the kid’s lifelong dream. It was also a feather in the cap of his team manager, Craig Dack, who had played a major role in signing Reed to Yamaha of Troy.
But the historic win wasn’t without incident. In fact,
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