MX Sports Center Video Show Returns

Press Release from MX Sports
The groundbreaking MX Sports Center internet video shows will return for its fifth season with daily coverage from the 2009 Air Nautiques/AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, presented by Amsoil, at Loretta Lynn's Ranch on August 4-9. The show will cover on- and off-track highlights from each day of life at the Tennessee ranch, which will become the center of the motocross world for a week of championship racing.

For 2009, MX Sports Center will air on www.AlliSports.com, the online hub for action-sports competitions. The shows will begin airing on Tuesday, August 4, the first day of racing at Loretta Lynn's; new highlight shows will air each day while the racing continues. A total of 99 championship motos, covering 33 classes, will decide the 2009 AMA Amateur National Champions in motocross.

As they have been for the last five years, the shows will be hosted by Jason Weigandt and Kevin Kelly. Weigandt is the host of SPEED and NBC's coverage of the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship, and Kelly is the cofounder and co-host of the cutting-edge DMXS Radio, a weekly bench-racing bonanza for the online community. The producer of the show will be Wes Williams, the same creative mind behind Vurbmoto.com, which chronicles the amateur motocross circuit, as well as online video coverage of pro motocross.

"Our roots are in amateur motocross," Williams says of his VurbMoto.com crew, which will man the cameras and editing bays all week at Loretta Lynn's. "We cover all of the amateur events, but MX Sports Center puts the focus on the most important race of them all, Loretta's."

"Loretta's is the hardest week of the year and the best week of the year," says Weigandt, who will fly directly to Tennessee from Washington, where he will host SPEED TV's live coverage of Saturday's Washougal Motocross National. "We try to fit all of that into the show-the fun, the drama, everything that makes this week so unforgettable. That's why they call Loretta Lynn's 'The World's Greatest Motocross Vacation.'"

DMXS Goes Amateur

Press Release fromDMXSRadio
With the merge of DMXS Radio and Vurb Insider comes the industries first amateur-based motocross show. Now you can not only find out all the big news from the pro pits, but also get the dirt on the world’s fastest amateur talent as well. “It was something that we all thought would be a solid addition to both Vurb and DMXS,” said Kevin Kelly, DMXS co-host. “Vurb had always done such a great job covering amateur motocross and we’ve always stressed the pro side of things. With our new relationship with Vurb, it was just a natural progression to do both.”
Instead of running both shows on the same night, the new Amateur Hour will be taped and played the following week in order to give fans a show to listen to every single week.

All the hype in the amateur world over the last few weeks has surrounded Honda’s Taylor Futrell. We caught up with Futrell on his way to the Loretta Lynn Regional Qualifier at High Point this weekend. As you will find out, Futrell has filed a little protest of his own and will be running the exact same motor at High Point this weekend. We won’t go into too much detail, but will say that this is definitely an interview you won’t want to miss.

At a young age, Team Green Kawasaki Manager Ryan Holliday has worked his way through some of the most prominent positions in motocross. From his days spent at Racer X Illustrated and the AMA to now managing one of the biggest amateur programs in the sport, Holliday has just about done it all. Ryan fills us in on the secrets behind the Team Green program and what their plans are for the remainder of the national season.

After proving to be one of the fastest 85 riders in the country a few short years ago, Rockstar Suzuki’s Ian Trettel was hit with a string of injuries that has kept him out of the spotlight in recent years. Now pro, Trettel is beginning to once again find his groove as he builds towards making his mark at Loretta’s. Check out an interview with Trettel as he explains how he was able to keep his Suzuki ride