Photo by: Nicolas Cade Monster Energy Supercross Western Regional Supercross Lites privateer and WORCS Series rider number 354 went down hard and was injured at round three inside Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. We talked to Chris yesterday, and he said about the crash that it was a stupid one that just kicked him over the bars. In the crash, he says he broke his teeth, separated his wrist and broke the Scaphoid bone in…
Photo by: Nicolas Cade During the off-season, most AMA Supercross riders are signing contracts and testing new setups, but the privateers of the sport are just trying to get enough funds together to race. One of the privateers that is getting ready for a full on assault in 2012 is Chris Johnson. In 2011, Chris—through circumstances out of his control—was forced to take the season off and is now looking forward to making up for…
In Supercross and motocross, there are different levels of privateer. There’s the privateer that races for the private team, but makes a salary, flys to the races, has a mechanic and just about every other luxury a factory rider has, and then there’s the true privateer. The true privateer does not make a salary. He drives to the races and has to order his own parts just like the rest of us. At times, he…