The Women’s class always offers some amazing battles. To me they’re all a blur of last lap crazy drama every year and I couldn’t tell you which year was which. So take me through ’03, if you remember how it all shook out. Yeah! Who likes second place? Second sucks! So you were getting motivated by getting tired of these seconds? So that was Bau at first, and then Jessica twice? So actually, I won on the little bikes twice, in ’98 and ’99, and then in 2000, 2001, 2002 I got second three years in a row. I think Jessica was hurt, so then that year it was me and Stefy going for the lead. So you said your first year on the big bike it was Stefy Bau who won?

So specifically, it usually came down to you and Jessica Patterson, and you won twice? We’re going to relive the glory days of the gnarly battles at Loretta’s. There’s a saying that goes “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Well, when the racers in the Women’s class have a title on the line, they will push so hard, and dig so deep, to win.Īnd yes, sometimes the rivalries spill of the track and become deeply personal. When you get a year when two or three riders in that class are evenly matched, the action is going to get crazy in the final moto.

After all those years of watching, there’s no doubt in my mind that the Women’s class offers up the best battles. I’m about 20 years into going to what’s now called the Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn Ranch. Sarah takes us through her memories of the drama.

The Women’s class offers great battles almost every year. As we continue to count down to the 2020 Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn's Ranch, we also continue to reminisce about great battles through the years at an event that has hosted plenty of them.

Women's professional motocross racers