Rider Updates
Jul 27 2007
The 19 year-old dirt bike racer has qualified for the largest amateur motocross race in the world, the 26th annual Air Nautiques/AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch.
Brower took on more than 20,000 hopefuls from across America to earn one of just 1,386 qualifying positions.
“The Amateur Nationals at Loretta Lynn’s is the event every motocross racer in the country wants to compete in,” says event director Tim Cotter. “A win at the Amateur Nationals can serve as a springboard to a lucrative professional motocross career.”
Most of America’s top professional motocrossers, including Jeremy McGrath, Ricky Carmichael, Travis Pastrana and James Stewart, have won AMA Amateur National Championships at Loretta Lynn’s. A victory at this race is so valuable that last year, teenager Josh Hill from Yoncalla, Ore., was rewarded with a six-figure pro contract from the Factory Yamaha Racing Team after winning an Amateur National Championship last year.
Brower has been riding since he was 2 years old. Sponsors like Let’s Ride Suzuki, Fly, Scott USA and Ryan Hinton helping to pay his way to the races. He has won numerous races in the past 15 years and competes nearly every weekend at races around the nation.
Brower will make the long journey to Tennessee along with his family. The race runs July 30 through Aug. 4.
Brower is just one of the more than 20,000 who spent the last four months qualifying for the event. The top finishers in area and regional qualifiers earn a birth into the national championship race at Loretta Lynn’s. Racers may enter a wide variety of classes, from minicycle classes for children as young as 4, all the way up to a senior division for riders over 45. There are also classes for women and classes for both stock and modified bikes.
The track is built on a section of Loretta Lynn’s Ranch and Campground in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. The course contains a