Wardy...MXoN Grand Marshall

MX Sports, host organizer of the 2025 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations (MXoN), is pleased to announce that AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer and USA Motocross Team icon Jeff Ward, the most prolific racer of the 1980s, will serve as Grand Marshal of the world’s most prestigious motocross event, which will return to American soil from October 3-5 from Crawfordsville, Indiana’s Ironman Raceway. Ward will join this year’s USA rider lineup of Haiden Deegan, Chase Sexton, and Eli Tomac during the kickoff Nucor Grand Parade of Nations on Friday, October 3, and will also lead opening ceremonies on race day, Sunday, October 5.

Simply put, Ward is “Captain America” at the MXoN. Not only is he the most successful racer in USA Motocross Team history with the most appearances for his home country, but he is also the single-most-successful competitor in the 78-year history of the storied event. Ward represented the stars and stripes on seven different occasions between 1983 and 1990 and went a perfect 7-for-7 in those appearances. An unprecedented level of success that still stands to this day, 35 years since Ward’s final MXoN.

“Jeff Ward represents everything the Motocross of Nations stands for — national pride, world-class talent, and a relentless drive to win,” said Tim Cotter, Event Director for the 2025 MXoN. “It is only fitting that the winningest American in MXoN history leads Team USA and our fans into this year’s event as Grand Marshal.”

Adding to Ward’s heralded legacy at the MXoN were winning performances in each displacement division, with five wins riding a 500cc Kawasaki KX500 and one win apiece riding a 250cc Kawasaki KX250 and a 125cc KawasakiKX125. He helped lead the USA to victories in six different host nations, including the MXoN debut on American soil from New York’s Unadilla MX in 1987, and became a cornerstone figure in the country’s ascension to dominance at the MXoN, where the USA has the most Chamberlain Trophy triumphs with 23 victories.

While Ward’s accolades at the MXoN alone is the stuff of legend, his career résumé in American motocross as a whole is equally incredible. Ward captured seven SuperMotocross championships during an illustrious 15-year career, with two titles in Supercross and five titles in Pro Motocross. He will also forever carry the distinction of being the only rider in AMA history to win a championship in each displacement, in both disciplines.

Upon his retirement from motocross, Ward made a successful transition to four wheels, notably in IndyCar where he competed in 61 races over a seven-year period, with one victory at Texas Motor Speedway in 2002 and both a second and third-place finish at the legendary Indianapolis 500. Ward then made a triumphant return to two wheels at over 40 years of age, where he dominated the AMA Supermoto Championship with both a pair of titles (2004 & 2006) and a pair of X Games Gold Medals (2006 & 2008). He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999 and was later inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2006.

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John Penton A True Legend!

Motocross Mourns The Passing of John Penton

Penton, one of motorcycling's most influential figures, passed peacefully at 100 years old.

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (Sept. 8, 2025) — The American Motorcyclist Association mourns the passing of John Penton, one of motorcycling’s most influential and well-known figures. Penton passed peacefully at 100 years of age, having recently celebrated his 100th birthday.

Born on Aug. 19, 1925, Penton and his brothers learned to ride after reviving an old 1914 Harley-Davidson they found in their barn. But when World War II began, Penton shifted his emphasis to defense of the country, serving during the war as a Merchant Marine and in the Navy.

After the war he bought a used Harley-Davidson Knucklehead, heading with his brother Bill to Lansing, Michigan, to ride in the grueling Jack Pine 500-Mile Enduro in 1948. It was at that race that Penton realized that the days of larger bikes like Harleys and Indians were likely numbered in races like the Jack Pine when he saw a lighter, nimbler BSA beating the more powerful bikes.

Penton returned to the Jack Pine the next year on a B-33 BSA and finished second, which was the beginning of his mission to find a smaller, lighter and better-performing enduro motorcycle.

Penton went on to open a motorcycle dealership with his brothers while also continuing to race, winning the Ohio State Enduro Championship and many other enduros throughout the Midwest. In 1960 he won the AMA’s Most Popular Rider Award.

Later becoming a Husqvarna distributor after winning the Jack Pine aboard a Husky in 1966, Penton toured the Husqvarna factory in Europe in 1967 and tried to convince the manufacturer to begin building lightweight off-road machines, which Penton saw as the future of off-road riding and racing.

His idea was met with a lukewarm reception, so he went to visit the KTM factory in Austria, where his idea of a lightweight off-road bike was greeted with slightly more enthusiasm. He offered to put up $6,000 of his own money if KTM would build a handful of prototypes to his specifications, and KTM agreed.

In early 1968, Penton took delivery of six Penton 100cc prototypes, promptly entering them in races and putting other top riders on the bikes. Right from the start there was a big demand for the Pentons, which were lightweight and inexpensive, and in the first year over 400 were sold. More than a decade later, over 25,000 highly-competitive Penton motorcycles had been sold in America.

Penton’s innovations also included improving boots for off-road riders by working with Alpinestars of Italy to produce legendary Hi-Point boots.

For his innovation and contributions to the industry with Husqvarna, Penton, Hi-Point and in a many other ways, Penton was inducted int

Romain Febvre – Kawasaki’s only major title hope and $50k frames!

A few years ago, Kawasaki was living the dream with Eli Tomac winning in America, Romain Febvre challenging for an MXGP world title and Jonathan Rea winning in World Superbike.

Now, the landscape is very different and Kawasaki’s entire success at the highest level is rested solely on Romain Febvre shoulders. Febvre is carrying Kawasaki single-handedly, the WSB side isn’t enjoying the same success and Kawasaki USA couldn’t even field a single factory rider in SMX after a disastrous end to their 2025 season with Jason Anderson exiting during the season and Jorge Prado never feeling comfortable on the bike and now both sides mutually agreeing not to race SMX.

With a 26 point lead and two rounds to go, the pressure on Romain Febvre is huge, the Frenchman is an entire companies hope of some solace and glory in a season to forget outside of MXGP.

This, of course, has been a work in progress, Febvre came oh-so-close to a title in MXGP back in 2021 in that enthralling championship decider at Mantova, but it was Herlings and KTM who prevailed. Now Febvre has the best chance he might have for the rest of his career to get that second world title, this, after riding one-off frames up to 50k as he got comfortable on his factory Kawasaki.

Febvre and Kawaski have put so much into this, for both, they have ten days to make it all worthwhile in China and then Australia.

To underline the work that has went into this title assault, test rider for Kawasaki Takeshi Katsuya said in an interview with Swapmoto of Febvre and the development of the bike and the development that went into it:

“First year, Febvre ran the full factory frame and they are very expensive. So, in 2023 he ran the full factory frame, in 2024 he ran the production frame. So since that, everything is the production. So his frame, his swing arm is production. So it’s the same rule as the US, you know. But that’s what I wanted to do anyway, because the factory frame, I mean, that ended in 2023. He was winning a lot of races. But, you know, everybody goes, oh, because he has factory frame. And, okay, that factory frame was really good. But we came up with the production frame. It was close enough.”

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