I was there, my dad was the sales manager at the House of Kawasaki & Suzuki. The store sponsored the event and we had the Kawasaki factory team at the store. I believe Guy Cooper was there too, those were some great times as a kid!

Miss those days. Great battle.

thanks for having the full show!!

I was there too, as I see were some other commenters. My best friend raced the amateur regional area around Ks, Ok, Mo, Tx. from '83--88, and we got to know Emig and Cooper and others. Cooper was so down to earth and we raced his (then) track in Perry, Oklahoma many times, and my buddy crushed his silencer in practice at a race there and he went to Cooper as a last resort to see if he had an extra one for sale. Cooper didn't, but said to my friend that he could race his practice bike, but my friend just borrowed the silencer off his practice bike and returned it after the race. Cooper was so nice and cool, and I cheered for him when he finally got his ride, and even before then. Emig was cool, too, but younger, and we knew him well until he won the most prestigious race in the amateur scene at that time, the 80 stock expert class in Ponca City, in 1986, and we never saw much of him again as they had him out in California most of the time from then on. Great racing,and hot as could be that day.

I have this on VHS. Have not had a VHS player for decades. :)

These were the best years of racing.

@EarthSurferUSA

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Well, not as far as how many people doing it. The decline of the participant started in 1986 because of the production rule that tripled the cost of a bike in 5 years. But the racing itself was very good indeed. Not anymore IMO.

Stephenson in the woops🤯!!!!

I remember this race. It was my 10th year in MX. good race. I however did not do so good. Lol. Thanks you so much for sharing this with us and me.

Can you please upload the 1991 Oklahoma Supercross

Gnarliest track ever. 👍 Made for great racing.

@EarthSurferUSA

2 жыл бұрын

Not even close. The gnarliest track ever was a private track I rode on in Michigan. A track that nobody used anymore, but had probably 2 decades of racing with no grooming. It was all sand, and it would have ate up Jeffry Herlings. The USAracers today outside of Florida with out a lot of Croom practice,--would be dragging butt. This was a great race though.

@jinoziniosti5633

2 жыл бұрын

@@EarthSurferUSA Sounds like thee original Brown City or Bulldogs?

@EarthSurferUSA

Жыл бұрын

@@jinoziniosti5633 No, it was a private practice track on a farm property owned by a guy named "Baird". I think it was a great practice spot in the 80's and early 90's. By the time I heard about it, and just drove up there for permission, (all alone out there, sand grass growing in the track), it was the late 90's,---and I was out of shape for anything like that. I wish I knew about it a decade earlier, but it was not local to me then, and we had plenty of private tracks to ride on in the 80's and early 90's. I loved the sand,---and that track would take me a while to make good laps. After that---off to little Europe sand boxes man! :)

It was a good accomplishment for Jeff Matiasevich to be in the points lead so late in the series, like round 15. I don't know if he picked up some bad habits after 1990, but not too many rookies fare that well.

we need tracks like this now. the stadiums are becoming too small for supercross. 47 second lap times on a super tight track create the lapper issues we are seeing this year.

@EarthSurferUSA

2 жыл бұрын

Some new stadiums are smaller, but they were still fine for 2-strokes. The 4-strokes are too fast, so the tracks got faster. The opposite would evolve if we were free enough to go back to 2-strokes, but we aren't.

49:50 - Cameraman's finger in the frame...LOL!

7:45, (Track layout). "It's about a min and 10 second lap time out there." Yep, the racing and tracks are much faster today. That is what happens when you put a faster engine is something we race.

@BobbyGeneric145

Жыл бұрын

The track map is backwards too!

@32.08 that’s a classic Emig cross jump, is Stephenson had of just stayed straight he would landed right up Jeff’s muffler... makes the results a bit controversial for me anyway!!

@EarthSurferUSA

2 жыл бұрын

Why? did one of them mess up their hair or break a nail? Oh yeeeeeeaaaa. That will be a foul in the future. :)

Cooper the only one hitting the triple step up

@alexsaucedo8032

2 жыл бұрын

Guy Cooper was soooooo fun to watch. Miss him. . Mr Air time. . Such a nice cool person. Wish he would of won this race 🏁

@EarthSurferUSA

2 жыл бұрын

They don't make tracks like the used to. It bores me to see everybody have the tracks wired today. All they do is move the whoops here, and put the rhythms, (which I hate), there,---and call it a new track.

@bradholtzclaw3768

2 жыл бұрын

@@EarthSurferUSA touche'. Boring to me. The tracks of the late 80s and early 90s were my favorite.

@EarthSurferUSA

Жыл бұрын

@@bradholtzclaw3768 Me too. And I think I could see Bradshaw clearing it when he got lapped. It is perfect when nobody has the track wired. :)