RUMORS , GOSSIP & UNFOUNDED TRUTHS: ALL EYES TURN TO GLEN HELEN — WITH THE FIRST OF TWO MEGA PURSE PRO RACES TODAY
$30,000 GLEN HELEN STOPWATCH NATIONAL IS TODAY
Thursday, May 15th – $30,000 Stopwatch National Pro Invitational
The first of four days kicks off with the Stopwatch National today, where AMA racers and and top privateer pros will line up on a 40-man gate with 250s and 450s combined to battle through two 30-minute motos for a $30,000 purse..
• THE $70,000 GLEN HELEN MOTO FEST IS COMING ON SATURDAY, MAY 18
Saturday, May 17th – Glen Helen MotoFest Pro Showdown: Saturday’s 250/450 MotoFest Pro Invitational pays $70,000 purse money (to 20th place in both the 250 and 450 classes). Thursday’s $35,000 “Stopwatch National” is a combined 250/450 event that pays $30,000 to 20th place. The Stopwatch National and MotoFest Pro Invitational races are free to the accepted Pro riders. There are amateur events and practice sessions mixed in on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Including a “Saturday at the Glen” motocross race on the National track on Saturday, for the local Glen Helen heroes. For more information and to pre-enter go to www.glenhelen.com. Catch all the action live on MXA’s YouTube channel and witness who takes home the cash and the glory!>
• JULIEN BEAUMER SIGNS UP FOR $30,000 “STOPWATCH NATIONAL” PREMIER PRO EVENT TODAY
Thursday, May 15: Stopwatch National – Livestreamed with MXA – Main events for Thursday will see racing taking place in between the Pro-only closed course practice sessions and general open practices. Racing will consist of two motos (combined 250s & 450s) with a $30,000 purse. Motos consist of a maximum of 40-man pro-riders by invitation through an open application process. No race entry fees if you are selected to race.
• STOPWATCH NATIONAL— LIVE FEED THURSDAY, MAY 15, AT 10:15 AM PST—$30,000 ON THE LINE
Saturday, May 17: Pro Showcase Invitational Race 250 & 450:Livestreamed with MXA, two-Moto format race on the National MX Track Racing for their share of $70,000. The $70,000 Purse to be broken down will be paid out to 20th place. The racers race on the same size bike they will be racing on in the 2025 outdoor MX season.
• PRICE CREEP IN AMA NATIONAL MOTOCROSS TICKET PRICES
There are many modern motocross racers who can remember when you could buy a ticket for the Unadilla AMA 250/500 National for $3.00 (camp for $1.00 per night). Seem unlikely? Well, at that same time gasoline only cost 25 cents a gallon, a McDonald’s hamburgers was 15 cents and you could buy a Japanese pick-up truck for $2300. It’s not if prices will rise, it’s just when will they rise so much that people stop coming. Below are the ticket prices for the March 24, 2025, Pala 250/450 National. All the prices are per person—except for camping.
TEN MOST COMMON TICKET PRICES
1. Saturday only (Adult)…..$74.67
2. Saturday only (Adult with pit pass)…$107.83
3. Saturday only (Kid 6-11)…..$41.51
4. Saturday only (Kid 6-11 with pit pass)…$58.09.
5. Two-day Friday-Saturday (Adult)…$102.30
6. Two-day Friday-Saturday (Adult with pit pass)…$146.51
7. Two-day Friday-Saturday (Kid)…$58.09
8. Two-day Friday-Saturday (Kids with pit pass)…$91.25
9. Three-day Thurs-Saturday (Adult VIP Super ticket)…$334.41
10. Three-day Thurs-Saturday (Kid VIP Super ticket)…$168.62
Plus: Fan Camping Thurs-Saturday (Admission tickets required)…$334.41
• THIS WEEK IN MXA: THE GLEN HELEN NATIONAL IS BACK…SORT OF WITH $100,000 IN PURSE MONEY
Bud Feldkamp, the owner of Glen Helen Raceway, has invested big time into the 2025 Glen Helen MotoFest race; not only is he putting up $100,000 in purse money, but Glen Helen has also invested in a new backdrop to the starting gate, and a revamped race track for this weekend of racing. This video is all about the “MotoFest” and “Stopwatch National” at Glen Helen next week, plus MXA’s Josh Mosiman talks about this past weekend’s Denver Supercross with the Deegan takeout drama and more.
• SUNDAY’S $70,000 PRO INVITATIONAL 250/450 PURSE BREAKDOWN
1. $10,000
2. $5000
3. $3000
4. $2500
5. $2250
6. $1750
7. $1400
8. $1000
9. $950
10. $900
11. $850
12. $800
13. $750
14. $700
15. $650
16. $600
17. $550
18. $500
19. $450
20. $400
TOTAL $35,000 (PER CLASS)
• TODAY’S $30,000 STOPWATCH NATIONAL COMBINED 250/450 PURSE BREAKDOWN
1. $10,000
2. $5000
3. $2500
4. $2400
5, $1500
6. $1200
7. $900
8. $800
9. $750
10. $700
11. $650
12. $600
13. $550
14. $500
15. $450
16. $400
17. $350
18. $300
19. $250
20. $200
TOTAL $30,000 (250/450 COMBINED)
• MXA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK! WRINGIN’ OUT THE ALL-NEW TRIUMPH TF450-RC
Learn more about the all-new Triumph TF450RC in the video below.
MXA VIDEO: 2025 TRIUMPH TF450-RC TESTED
The 2025 Triumph TF450-RC has officially made it to California and the MXA wrecking crew has been wide open on it (both literally and figuratively). It’s always exciting to get a new bike, especially when it’s as new as this one. This is the British manufacturers first attempt at a 450 four-stroke motocrosser, and they did a great job! In this video, MXA’s Josh Mosiman and Josh Fout get into the details on the new TF450-RC.
• EVERY 2025 AMA SUPERCROSS WINNER AT A GLANCE
• THE GREATEST DEAL IN MOTOCROSS: REAL WORDS, LARGE PHOTOS, MORE TECH & A $25 ROCKY MOUNTAIN CREDIT
This is the May 2025 cover of MXA. Inside are indepth tests of the 2025 Beta 450RX, 2025 -1/2 Husqvarna FC450 Factory Edition, 2025 GasGas MC250F, plus, four home-built Works Edition including an unobtainable Fantic XX300 two-stroke (on the cover), a KX450 that reimagined the 2025 KX450 Special Racer with different components than the ones Kawasaki chose, the GasGas MC85 that carried Dane Pappas to the 85cc (13-15) Mini Sr. 2 title at Loretta Lynn’s and the personal YZ250F of ETS Fuels’ Kyle Moose, built with an unlimited budget that totaled up to $28,000 (also on the cover).
The May issue also went inside the KTM Junior Supercross Challenge at the San Diego Supercross, where we followed the son of Manfred Edlinger, the head of R&D for KTM’s motocross division, from the time he got off the plane from Austria until 8-year-old Raphy Edlinger raced under the lights, in front of 40,000 American fans. If that’s not enough, with the news that Kawasaki intends introduce a two-stroke in 2026, we went back into the MXA archives to a test of the last Kawasaki KX250 two-stroke that Kawasaki made before pulling out of two-stroke back in 2007. You find it to be enlightening.
• THE 2025 GREAT PLAINS VINTAGE MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS ON MAY 18 IN ALMA, NEBRASKA
The eight-round Great Plains Vintage series The Great Plains Vintage MX association is kicking off our 2025 season with six vintage-style tracks, each designed to honor the roots of our sport. No monstrous double (or triple) jumps or treacherous rhythm sections! For 2025 it has has four rounds in Nebraska, two rounds in Iowa and one round in South Dakota.For more information go to www.greatplainsvintagemx.org.
• 2025 MXGP WINNERS AT A GLANCE — 8 DOWN, 12 TO GO
Lucas Coenen (6) moved up to the 450 class from the 250 class this year and won his first-ever 450 Grand Prix at his sixth 450 race ever and backed it up with a second victory a week later in muddy Portugal.
Date/Venue 450 250
Mar. 2…Argentina………..Maxime Renaux (Yam)…………………..Kay de Wolf (Hus)
Mar. 16…Spain #1………..Tim Gajser (Hon)…………………………….Liam Everts (Hus)
Mar. 23…France #1……….Tim Gajser (Hon)……………………………Andrea Adamo (KTM)
Apr. 6…Sardinia……………Romain Febvre(Hon)……………………….Kay de Wolf (Hus)
April 13…Italy……………….Tim Gajser (Hon)……………………………..Thibault Benistant (Yam)
April 21…Switzerland……Lucas Coenen (KTM)…………………..Simon Laegenfelder (KTM)
May 4…Portugal……………..Lucas Coenen (KTM)…………………..Andrea Adamo (KTM)
May 11…Spain #2………..Romain Febvre (Kaw)……………………….Kay de Wolf (Hus)
May 25…France #2
June 1…Germany
June 8…Latvia
June 22…Great Britain
July 13…Finland
July 27…Czech Republic
Aug. 3…Belgium
Aug. 17…Sweden
Aug 24…Holland
Sept. 7…Turkey
Sept. 14…China
Sept. 21…Australia
450 points leader…Tim Gajser (Hon)
250 points leader...Kay de Wolf (Hus)
• MXA VIDEO: 2025 YAMAHA YZ250 TWO-STROKE TEST
The Yamaha YZ250 two-stroke platform has stayed relatively the same since 2006. Yamaha went from steel to this same aluminum frame in 2005, and then they added the famous Kayaba SSS forks on it in 2006. Since then, there have been minor updates, with the most notable being in 2022 when it gained new plastics, a new seat, and an updated subframe. However, the YZ250 still feels a lot like the 2006 model, but we aren’t complaining (anymore). It’s true, we’ve harped on Yamaha for years, asking them to make big changes, but now that KTM has gone overboard with updates (fuel-injection, electric power valves and electric start on their motocross two-strokes), we’re extra appreciative of Yamaha’s Keihin carburetors. In this video, MXA test rider Brian Medeiros explains what it was like for him to get on the YZ250 and go racing at the 2025 Wiseco World Two-Stroke Championship, where he swept both motos in the Over-30 Expert class and went stright back to the start line to get ninth overall in the Open Pro class.
• WHAT’S LEFT OF THE ALL IMPORTANT 2025 RACE SCHEDULES
The 2025 AMA outdoor Nationals will start on May 24 and end on August 23, but the 2025 Motocross des Nations will be held at Crawfordsville on October 5.
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