Flat Track Motorcycle and Quad Races

The AMA Grand National Singles event for Billings in 2009 was taken off the schedule. The promoter, Mike Marsh of RASE LLC said in an interview that the economic downturn has hurt local businesses, and there was simply not enough capital available to hold the event in 2009.

BMC Short Track – Saturday August 1, 2009
Fortunately, The Warm Up will be held in an abbreviated way in 2008. Due to a rained out short track race in June, there will be a short track race held at the Billings Motorcycle Club’s short track on Saturday night August 1, 2009. This is a BMC points race, and entirely promoted and staged by BMC staff. Mike Marsh of RASE will be promoting the race for the BMC.

For more information about the 8/1/2009 race, please call Mike at (406) 656-9960 or send an e-mail to mmarsh@midlandclaims.com. We hope to see many riders on their way to Sturgis again this year. And we’ll do everything we can to have a better race surface than last years “motocross” track.

The Warm Up®
The 2009 AMA Grand Nation Singles 1/2 mi event previously scheduled for Billings has been cancelled.

Thank you to the many thousands of riders and spectators that have come to Montana to take in some of the best road riding and flat track racing in the United States since 2003. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, primarily the economy and its impact upon local businesses, the finances were not available to state the event in 2009.

We hope that you will still consider including Yellowstone Park and Billings, Montana in your pre-Sturgis ride plans.

AMA Grand National Singles in Montana in 2008
The AMA Grand National Flat Track series made a stop in Billings, Montana in 2008. Since 2003, The Warm Up, held the weekend before the Sturgis Rally each year, has included hundreds of profesisonal and up-and-coming motorcycle and quad flat track racers. In 2008, the best athletes in the sport of professional flat track came to Billings to compete on the MetraPark 1/2 mi dirt track. AMA pro racers from the US, Canada, Australia and Japan were on hand to battle it out under the beautiful Montana Big Sky. The two day event was the first of its kind for Montana, and the only AMA GNC race west of the Mississippi in 2008.

Congratulations to Kenny Coolbeth for winning the first ever GNC Singles race in Montana, and moving on to win his 3rd consecutive GNC Twins Number One plate in 2008. Great Job Kenny!