Hang on a minute. This can't be right. Honda hadn't won a premier-class AMA Supercross Championship for 20 years? No way.
Back in the day it seemed like for 20 years straight only Hondas won the AMA 250cc Supercross title. The roll call of victorious red riders through the 1980s, '90s and into the early '00s included the names Hansen, Bailey, O'Mara, Johnson, Stanton, Bayle, McGrath and Carmichael. But after RC's '03 title tilt, the red tide washed back out to sea … and it's been a long old wait before it finally came crashing back to shore.
That's right, precisely 20 years later, Chase Sexton has delivered Team Honda the most coveted number-one plate in dirtbike racing, but it's fair to say he didn't make it easy on himself in a season where crashes and injuries left the sport looking like it could be relabelled Supercross Survivor.
The hit list of injured supercross riders this year has been cringe-worthy and has set the sport alight with feedback on why the situation happened, and how to remedy it.
SMALL-BORE WARS
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