Morgantown, West Virginia – MX Sports activities Professional Racing, organizers and producers of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Professional Racing, introduced in the present day the appointment of long-time business figurehead Roy Janson as Commissioner of Motocross. This newly created place will align inside the general construction of MX Sports activities Professional Racing and American motocross as a complete.
The Commissioner of Motocross will function a useful liaison between MX Sports activities Professional Racing and the varied entities that represent the general construction of the AMA Professional Motocross Championship, together with AMA Professional Racing, the occasion organizers that comprise the championship calendar, and the neighborhood of economic entities that take part within the collection. The Commissioner will tackle particular assignments working inside the present administration construction of MX Sports activities Professional Racing, together with planning and operational issues that vary outdoors the problems of competitors and race officiating. The position of Commissioner can even embrace supporting the efforts of present MX Sports activities Professional Racing workers members and can permit the Commissioner to determine and assist future workers members who will assist shepherd American motocross into its subsequent half century of competitors. The AMA Professional Motocross Championship is acknowledged worldwide as the game’s premier competitors for skilled motocross.
“The promotion to such a prestigious place as Commissioner of Motocross permits me the chance to finish my journey inside this enterprise in an exquisite position and on the similar time permits me the chance to be a part of this outstanding sport because it begins a brand new and thrilling future with the creation of the SuperMotocross League,” defined Janson. “The brand new SuperMotocross World Championship and the cooperative construction that brings collectively the entities and sources of Feld Motor Sports activities and MX Sports activities Professional Racing will permit the game to guard and promote the person integrity of the disciplines of Supercross and Professional Motocross, whereas including the folks’s championship on the fruits of every season. Annually, the SuperMotocross World Championship will reply the query that each one of us as followers ask ourselves every season–who’s the most effective of the most effective? Whereas I’ve been blessed to have loved a lifetime profession within the sport of motorbike racing, I’m happy to be right here as our sport begins its subsequent chapter and I’m a believer that our future has by no means been brighter.”
Janson, who has labored as a director with MX Sports activities Professional Racing since its institution in 2009, started his profession within the sport and business of motorcycling almost 60 years in the past as a younger worker of a neighborhood motorbike seller in his hometown of Rochester, New York, and since 1964 has been concerned as a lifetime motorbike racer, occasion employee, and occasion organizer. Whereas briefly holding an AMA Skilled Motocross License within the early 1970’s, Janson has acknowledged that he acknowledged early in his racing expertise that if he had been to take pleasure in a profession within the sport it could seemingly should be off the monitor fairly than on it.
After serving in america Marine Corps following his commencement from highschool, Janson returned to Rochester to pursue Bachelor and Grasp’s Levels from the State College of New York at Geneseo and the College of Rochester, whereas persevering with to work at native dealerships and competing in native motocross, enduro, and trials occasions. Upon commencement, Janson launched into his lifelong dedication to the game, which started in 1980 together with his tenure as an worker of the American Motorcyclist Affiliation (AMA), the place he labored in a wide range of positions, in the end ascending to Director of Skilled Racing.
Following his time with the AMA, Janson went on to work for PACE Leisure in 1994, the place he served as Vice President of Operations, overseeing the corporate’s huge array of motorsports properties, together with Supercross. He continued with the corporate because it developed by a collection of possession modifications over the following 20 years, which culminated as Dwell Nation Motorsports till its sale to Feld Leisure / Feld Motor Sports activities. Janson then went on to work with the Daytona Motorsports Group following its acquisition of AMA Professional Racing and helped manage the switch of AMA Professional Racing to its present construction, which segued to his present higher administration place with MX Sports activities Professional Racing. The change within the administration construction of the game {of professional} motorbike racing allowed Janson the chance to return to his roots with Professional Motocross, as one of many early group of workers who made up MX Sports activities Professional Racing. He has relished his position as Occasion Director for each occasion courting again to 2009, when MX Sports activities Professional Racing assumed its position as organizer of the AMA Professional Motocross Championship.
“Roy in all probability is aware of extra about motocross than any of us. He has been a buddy and mentor for numerous folks in motocross, going again to the Eighties when he first started working with the American Motorcyclists Affiliation,” stated Davey Coombs, President, MX Sports activities Professional Racing. “He has held quite a few positions within the business, all the things from race official to collection organizer to sponsorship coordinator. Roy was even Workforce USA Supervisor for 2 wins within the annual FIM Motocross of Nations (‘92-‘93). He is additionally nonetheless the defending AMA Nationwide Enduro Champion in sidehack racing, a largely ceremonial honor courting again to the late Nineteen Sixties, however that is a narrative for an additional time.
“Whether or not it is occasion manufacturing or tv manufacturing, rulebook questions or questions of safety, Roy has a complete understanding of the way it all works. He has been invaluable to AMA Professional Motocross, in addition to Monster Vitality Supercross, Loretta Lynn’s AMA Newbie Nationwide Championships, and the Motocross of Nations. There isn’t a particular person extra suited to be named the primary Commissioner of Motocross than Roy Janson.”
