My name is Ray Ritchie, I'm Gene Ritchie's oldest son. I left my dad's business in 1981, I ran the dirt bike shop at the track. Your story is very accurate, and I was there when my brother Tim built the Loroccos leap. Mike was jumping it when Tim was building it.. making sure he was able to clear it... Thanks for the story of the leap. I was with my dad Gene when we first came to the track first on snowmobiles.. and rode the track when it was grass.. dad laid it out as we rode it. It's been close to the same since the very first day he laid it out.. I could go on and on, but thank you for your video, it's good.
Thank you so much for your comment! It's awesome to have even more context. Big thanks to your whole family for starting and continuing the motocross legacy that is RedBud!
@@joeschmidt6597 to much to say.. I sure remember the work us kids did to just get the first national going. Dad had 3 partners, and two had boys my age, I just finished high school in 1974. We dug the corner posts by hand then.. hung the fences.. Dad's other partners did things like getting the irrigation system through the track.. it was quite the undertaking.
Rumor has it that Tim Farr cleared Laroccos Leap on a KTM 450sx atv in 2008 during the press release. Would be the only atv that I know of that tried and was successful
I raced the 08 atv national. I'm paralyzed so strapped to the atv. That jump when you can't see the landings until you are air born. There's a reason why I didn't try the double. Don't need to get more paralyzed
i still miss the old ski jump then going straight with that nice floater to the orchard and the old triple, then a 180° to the double double. what i don’t miss is the rock hard clay.
5:47 I am sure the red drawn lines are not an old position for the starting gate. Are they a new position? Because the one shown (not the red lines) is the same I remember from back to 1984. it was straight to a 180, (approx), right hand turn, then the left to the ski jump.
Masterpool led most of his first moto back from an injury in 2020 at Redbud and finished 3rd, held Jett off and Jett finished 4th. I just watched it a few days ago.
I raced at Red Bud quite a bit. Went to the nationals as a young man. I have not been to a pro race since the 2007 MXofN, and I don;t remember that costing much, (no where near the grand I would have dumped at the last RB MXofN, so I did not go). If I drove 4 hours to Red Bud this Sat, I would have to drop about $300.00 bucks. I am not dropping that kind of money to watch 4 motos. Looks like I will never go to a pro race again.
4:02 That was a great battle between Damon and Jeff, (Damon crashed a bit later). I was standing at the apex of the next corner, and the track had huge, deep, clay, hard ruts. Those guys, right after that jump, (may be that lap), hit those ruts so hard, and on the gas,---I am still blown away.
Making a jump and landing on flat to find where to put the landing jump was common. But not for a jump that big. No way for a jump that big. Gotta have a down ramp.
Before I continued on with your vid, I thought you were going to say that Mike and Tim jumped the big leap with a snowmobile. lol But, there is no relationship with a snowmobile and that jump. May be finding the land to build a track,--but that jump was much later. I am not sure if Mike was born yet when the track was first made.
Deegan is a no brainer However in the 450's JCoop is super fast on this track so Chase isnt gonna get an easy win I think a good chance this is JCoops breakout ride