“While we’ve already had an incredibly memorable season with Ryan Dungey emerging as the star of the future, the return of James Stewart provides a captivating storyline as we close out the season and head toward crowning a champion,” said MX Sports Pro Racing Vice President Davey Coombs. “Ryan appears to be on his way to making history, and by adding James to the mix, it will be a must-see turn of events as arguably the two biggest names in the sport right now battle it out.”

2010 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship: Standings at round 8

450 Class Championship Standings
Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., Suzuki, 368
Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda, 273
Brett Metcalfe, Australia, Honda, 257
Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha, 238
Ben Townley, New Zealand, Honda, 223
Mike Alessi, Victorville, Calif., KTM, 219
Chad Reed, Australia, Kawasaki, 204
Ryan Sipes, Flaherty, Texas, Yamaha, 166
Kyle Chisholm, Valrico, Fla., Yamaha, 158
Kyle Regal, Kemp, Texas, Honda, 157

250 Class Championship Standings
Christophe Pourcel, France, Kawasaki, 340
Trey Canard, Shawnee, Okla., Honda, 302
Dean Wilson, Scotland, Kawasaki, 294
Tyla Rattray, South Africa, Kawasaki, 286
Justin Barcia, Ochlocknee, Ga., Honda, 212
Blake Wharton, Pilot Point, Texas, Honda, 209
Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Yamaha, 209
Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda, 200
Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki, 195
Martin Davalos, Ecuador, Yamaha, 163

Motorcycling Australia (MA) has announced the team that will represent Australia at the 2010 Motocross of Nations (MXoN) to be held in Colorado, USA on September 26th, 2010.

Australian Team – 2010 Motocross of Nations:
MX1: Chad Reed
MX2: Dean Ferris
MX3/Open: Brett Metcalfe

Reserve: Jay Marmont
Reserve: Kirk Gibbs

As recently announced, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) regulations stipulate that in 2010 the maximum age for the MX2 class rider is 23 years, meaning that riders born before 1 January 1987 were not able to be selected for the MX2 class.

The 2009 MXoN was claimed by the USA, represented by Ryan Dungey, Ivan Tedesco and Jake Weimer, while Australia will be looking to better their seventh place finish when the 2010 event takes place in September.

For more information regarding the event visit the event website at www.redbullmxon.com.

His slow healing wrist injury has so far prevented his return to racing the 2010 AMA Motocross Championship. However, James has been focused and determined to join the series just as soon as humanly possible. Currently James now has his head down in an attempt to get back up to racing speed in the coming few weeks.

James Stewart 2010

A 3 year search had failed before now to find a suitable alternative to the current site which is now required for the Port West development. The club had established a new stadium motocross track at Chandler earlier this year, but the track closed soon after due to dust and noise complaints.

Grant Langston was very happy to be at the racetrack last weekend

“The thing is, the diagnosis [on my eye] has changed,” Langston said. “Originally, it was diagnosed as a hemangioma, which is basically a blood clot in or somewhere around the eye, and I had it kind of a little bit behind and in the eye. It was leaking in there. That’s what was causing the problems. I did cold-laser treatment, and what actually happened is – I don’t know all of the ins and outs of it, but I don’t know if it developed from this, or if it was just coincidental – it’s now a full-blown tumor.”

After going to all kinds of eye doctors all around the country, Langston says he’s now busy seeing tumor specialists to figure out if it’s cancer or just benign. There have been rumors that Langston would have to go into early – even if only temporary – retirement until his eye is sorted out. “At this point, every day I lay in bed and think about these things,” Langston said. “What do I do? Sponsors want to know, friends want to know, my family wants me to be healthy regardless, and it’s like, there are so many scenarios going through my head, and I until I know for sure exactly what the outcome is going to be or what I have to do [to fix it], I don’t want to make any comments like that.”

The three riders who will represent Australia in this prestigious event will be Chad Reed, Michael Byrne and Brett Metcalfe.

Last year’s event, held at Budd’s Creek, USA, was won by the American team with top riders Ricky Carmichael, Ryan Villopoto and Tim Ferry securing a home victory, while injury and mechanical problems kept the Aussies; Reed, Andrew McFarlane and Michael Byrne out of contention.

Australian Team Manager, Gary Benn, said that even though all three riders have performed strongly over the past few months, selection was still quite hard.

“Selection is quite hard in some ways because they’re obviously racing on the other side of the world, so we can only look at their results in the races and we have to base it all on that,” Benn said.

“Chad has obviously shifted from Yamaha to Suzuki, following his World Championship win, and is very motivated with his new team and new bike.

“It could be said that the team this year is as strong if not stronger with both Brett and Burner riding very well.

“I’d like to think, all being well, with no injuries, mishaps or mechanical breakdowns, we should be on the podium for sure!”