When the 2022 Lucas Oil Motocross season returns to motion on May possibly 28 at Fox Raceway in Pala, California, just one of motorcycle racing’s legends, Ryan Dungey, will appear out of retirement and mount his famed No. 5 to challenge the industry.
Dungey has unfinished enterprise soon after finding compelled out of the 2016 Motocross marketing campaign with a period-ending injuries hardly 3 rounds into the calendar year. He returned to action in Supercross the next year and received his 3rd consecutive SX title, but presented how his remaining Motocross period commenced, he need to truly feel he experienced a powerful shot at profitable the MX championship as nicely.
In 2016, Dungey completed 2nd at Hangtown in Rancho Cordova, California, won at Glen Helen in San Bernadino, California and concluded 2nd again in Round 3 at Thunder Valley in Lakewood, Colorado before he was sidelined.
“I’m definitely excited about the chance to race the very first couple rounds of the outdoors for Crimson Bull KTM,” Dungey claimed in a launch. “I’ve experienced a ton of success with KTM in my most current several years of racing and it’s enjoyable to go back again and race for the very same crew with a ton of wonderful personnel.
“I have a ton of have confidence in with the group, which breeds confidence sitting on the line figuring out I have great people driving me and we’ve received a wonderful filth bike underneath us. This is a stacked class and it is been a very long time considering the fact that I’ve been on the line with them but I’m fired up to be back on the gate.”
Dungey will be part of Cooper Webb and Aaron Plessinger at Red Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing along with Italian MXGP rider Antonio Cairoli. Dungey won two of his a few MX titles with Purple Bull in 2012 and 2015.
“We realized that the 50th anniversary year of the world’s most prestigious motocross championship was destined to be a person for the ages, but very little could have well prepared us for the competitive return of two of motocross’ most prolific champions in Ryan Dungey and Antonio Cairoli,” stated Davey Coombs, President, MX Athletics Professional Racing. “When Ryan retired in 2017 it unquestionably felt like he however had a whole lot left in the tank, so it was bittersweet to enjoy him stage away in his primary.
“While a return to motion was usually some thing we’d hoped would transpire, today’s announcement is unprecedented, and we can not hold out to observe two ageless legends of the sport go bar-to-bar with their more youthful counterparts this summer time. Looking at the No. 5 and No. 222 collectively on the track will actually be just one of the series’ landmark times.”
Welcome back, champ 😏 @RyanDungey #LetsTakeItOutside #ProMotocross pic.twitter.com/R08eTFCPJj
— Professional Motocross (@ProMotocross) April 29, 2022
The staff has not introduced the size of Dungey’s 2022 marketing campaign, committing only to the very first two rounds for the two riders.
He certainly doesn’t have everything still left to demonstrate, but when Dungey returns to Professional Motocross, it will be with an eye to incorporating to his legacy. When he retired in 2017, he still left with a 3rd-best 46 profession wins and second-ideal 91 podium finishes. In addition to his titles with Crimson Bull, Dungey also gained the 2010 championship one particular 12 months just after successful in the 250 course.
Dungey, 32, will be joined by an additional veteran. Past week, Red Bull announced Cairoli, 36, would make his Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship debut in the initially two rounds of the period just after successful nine FIM Earth Motocross Championships.
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