Troy Dog
We’re gearing up for our annual Vurbmoto Classic at NXT LVL 101 in South Carolina on October 18-20th. It’s our biggest race of the year. If you don’t believe us, just ask riders like Jo Shimoda, Haiden Deegan, Adam Cianciarulo, Justin Barcia, Justin Cooper, Cooper Webb, among others what this race meant to them. They will tell you that it completely changed the trajectory of their careers. We took them to the top baby! Now we will take you to the top. Sign up for your classes today and see if you can become King of the Classic.
Yesterday Team Manager of the MotoConcepts Race Team, Tony Alessi put a post out on his personal account* explaining the team’s schedule for the 2025 season.
*Note: WE ENCOURAGE EVERY TEAM WHO RACES MULTIPLE SERIES TO DO THE SAME!
In the video, Alessi explained that the team will be busy racing the World Supercross Championship and they will mix in about seven West Coast rounds of the Monster Energy Supercross Championship.
However, the next part is new and it threw me for a loop…MotoConcepts will be racing the entire AMA Arenacross Championship, yeah the one presented by Kicker with Kyle Peters going for title number six.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!?!? It means Vince Friese will be racing Arenacross! It’s a genre of racing that he was destined to find eventually. It’s hard racing, with takeouts, block passing, and brake checking. Most people would say that Friese was born for this! Hide your Tib/Fib’s y’all because this championship just got spicier!
Maybe this will bring back the golden days of Arenacross where Denny Stephenson, Buddy Antunez, and crew were fighting one another on the start straight and getting a beer afterwards?
The team has Cullin Park, Noah Viney, Ryan Breece, and Friese on the WSX roster, so we’re just going to assume that all of these guys will be staying for the duration of the season.
Breece was the man who challenged KP for the championship last season, so this year it seems like the series may have more talent than it ever has. Friese will get those great starts and as you’ve seen, will fight for every position like his life depends on it. Also, the inverted start for the second Main Events will be gone in 2025. So, if you do well in the first Main, no more back row start for you!
I can’t wait to watch this unfold!
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