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One other moment that year is mostly lost to history: Ohio's Denny Swartz won the RedBud National on a Maico, marking the last win in the once-proud German brand's history.
Sun topped Goat Breker and the veteran Marty Smith, now on a Suzuki after spending most of his career at Honda. The Honda-backed Sun, who hailed from Oregon, was the first minority rider to win a major AMA title and would not be matched until James Stewart came along in 2002. The 500-class title would go to Chuck Sun, nicknamed the “Rising Sun” due to his Asian roots. There was not a single European rider in the top ten that year, as the series was no longer of great importance to the factories. Howerton would also win the Trans-USA tour, now all the way down to just four rounds, including two current AMA National tracks in Unadilla and RedBud.
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The “Rhinestone Cowboy” from Texas won all but one round of the seven-round tour, and the only race he lost-RedBud-went to another Texan in the form of Team Honda's Steve Wise. Kent Howerton took the 1980 AMA 250cc Motocross title.īell was solid outdoors too, but not as fast as Suzuki's Kent Howerton was. In AMA Supercross it was Hannah's young Yamaha teammate Mike Bell who ended up champion, as he swept the first two rounds at the old Seattle Kingdome and then rode a good, consistent series-and by then the SX tour had grown to seventeen rounds! When Bob Hannah broke his leg water-skiing after another dominant season, the door was wide open for someone to step in and take over as the leader in this nation. Broome-Tioga in Binghamton, New York, also joined the tour and would remain on it for more than twenty years.
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In 1980 a couple of new tracks joined the AMA Motocross circuit, and one is still there: Washougal, high above the banks of the Columbia River, will host its thirty-first Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross National on July 23.