2012 AMA Fly Racing Ponca City MX Championship

Same track, new promoter

New Ponca MX Championship

Same track, new promoter
Story and Photos: Shan Moore

Austin Burns, Daniel Baker and Sean Cantrell were the big winners at the AMA Fly Racing Ponca City MX Championships in Ponca City, Oklahoma, not to be confused with the Ponca City Grand National Motocross Amateur Championships, which has been held at the same venue for the past four decades.

For 2012, race promoter Ron Henricksen moved his NMA-sanctioned championship about 120 miles south to Norman, Oklahoma, making way for new promoter RPM Sports to take over the Jack Blevins Motocoss Park facility in Ponca City.

In all, Burns took the most number of titles, the Monster Energy Team Green rider winning all 12 of his motos en route to titles in the 250A, 450A, 250 Pro Sports, and 450 Pro Sports classes.

Meanwhile, Cantrell and Baker claimed three titles each, with Cantrell taking his titles in the 85 (12-13) Stock, Jr Mini (9-13) and Sr. Mini (12-14) classes. Meanwhile, Baker’s three titles came in the 250 B Mod, 250 B Stock and Schoolboy 2 (13-16) B/C divisions.

Baker’s three titles came in the 250 B Mod, 250 B Stock and Schoolboy 2 (13-16) B/C divisions.

Riders leaving town with two titles included, Pierce Brown, Gage Linville, Ryder DiFrancesco, Matt Bisceglia, Jalek Swoll, Jordan Bailey, and Michael Sleeter.

Sean Cantrell nabbed titles in the 85 (12-13) Stock, Jr Mini (9-13) and Sr. Mini (12-14) classes.

Linville’s titles came in the 51 (4-8) Open Stock and 51 (7-8) Mod divisions, while DiFrancesco topped the 51 (4-6) Mod and Stock classes.

Pierce Brown made history by giving Cobra their first-ever major national title in the 65cc division after taking titles in the 65 (7-9) Mod and Stock classes.

Meanwhile, Bisceglia won titles in the 450 B Mod and Stock divisions on his Honda, Yamaha rider Swoll topped the 65 (10-11) Stock and Mod divisions, and Jordan Bailey won the 85 (9-11) Stock and Mod titles.

Michael Sleeter rode his factory KTM to wins in the 25+ and 30+ Expert classes.

Gage Linville’s titles came in the 51 (4-8) Open Stock and 51 (7-8) Mod divisions.

Challen Tennant absolutely dominated the Supermini 1 (12-15) division, running away with all three motos in the process. The Texas rider had two moto wins in the Supermini 2 (13-16) division, but he was disqualified from the second moto for receiving outside assistance when he had bike problems during the race.

Miles McDonald went 2-2-5 to win the Supermini 2 (13-16) division.

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