While we all just want to get back to racing, the AMA and MXGP promoters, teams and riders are going to be working hard to make it happen. While Infront are working overtime in discussions with promoters and governments to get MXGP back, the whole process of getting a season up and running is a lot more difficult than ever.

MX Sports Pro Racing confirmed a couple of weeks ago that the beginning of the 2020 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship has been bumped back to 4 July with all their rounds TBA. The schedule is under review as we speak, however, it is official that the series will conclude on 3 October.

After a staggering seven AMA supercross races in 21 days, the AMA riders will then set their bikes up for motocross and I have to tell you, this is going to be a swift turnaround and if possible, the American motocross championships will be up and running pretty quickly after the dust settles in Salt Lake City and an AMA supercross champion is crowned. It is clear the riders will get two weeks to prepare for the opening AMA Nationals round and they are going to need it.

At the moment the opening round, which was meant to be in Florida at the former GP circuit WW Ranch, the second round at High Point, and round three at Southwick will all be changed, hopefully moving into the later part of the season, but anything is possible as MXsports work out what is best for the championship, the track owners and the riders.

"We have two off days in August," Davey Coombs told us last month. "Because we thought there would be an Olympics, and our partner television NBC is also the partner for the Olympic Games, so even before any of this was going to happen, we were not going to race on the weekends of the Olympics in August. Now the Olympics are off, NBC are asking what we have for them. If we have to cancel a couple of races we will, and one of those races we would cancel is my own race, Mount Morris and we don’t want to do that, but we understand the severity of this and the reality and in no way shape or form will we put people at risk. We have to run with the time we have and run a good series and not a risky series and do the wrong thing for the general public interest."

It is confirmed that June 28 is a free weekend for the riders, although you can count on everyone working hard for motocross set-ups after that 21 days of full on supercross. No doubt a lot of riders who are not in contention for the Indoor championship might be spending some time at a motocross facility in Utah preparing for the opening AMA National, if a circuit is available with all the restrictions due to coronavirus?

With America still under some stress from the cases and deaths, it will be interesting to see which facilities would want to go up first, with a possible restriction on crowd numbers, or maybe by July full on sporting events with crowds will be possible in USA?

The fact 900 people are allowed in the Salt Lake City stadium for the AMA supercross events, maybe a month later motocross events can have a few thousand or even more. Who knows?