Jones’ younger teammate Jimmy Ellis would finish third, but then in what some may have thought was a shrewd PR move, they team hired second-ranked Marty Tripes away from Husqvarna for the last race, giving Can-Am a 1-2-3 in the AMA 250cc National Championship! Karsmakers, who won the Yamaha Super Series and was highly influential in getting the Americans up to speed, raced anyway and won three of the nine 250cc rounds, but Can-Am rider Gary Jones was awarded the title-his third official one in a row here. citizens could compete for the AMA title, meaning transplanted Dutchman Pierre Karsmakers, riding for the Yamaha factory, would not be registered in the points standings. The big controversy of the year came when the AMA decided that only U.S. SX.)Īfter hiring Marty Tripes at the last second, Can-Am could boast a 1-2-3 in the '74 250 Nationals. (Czech CZ riders Zdenek Velky and Jaroslav Falta, the only two GP riders to race the Inter-Am Series that year, finished 1-2 nonetheless in the final standings, and Falta won the L.A. It was down to just four races, and it lost its biggest race-the annual Superbowl of Motocross-to the new stadium motocross tour. At the same time, the Inter-Am Series for 250cc motorcycles was struggling to attract talent from Europe like it had just a couple years earlier (though the Trans-AMA Series for 500cc bikes still flourished). The AMA started its first AMA Supercross tour in 1974, though at the time it was called the Yamaha Super Series, as the term supercross had yet to be coined.
By 1974 it was becoming obvious that the American motorcycle market was growing in size and influence, even as the athletes were getting faster and more professional with experience.
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