2024 San Francisco Supercross | Pre-Race News Break
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2024 SAN FRANCISCO SUPERCROSS | COMPLETE COVERAGE
After a sunny start to the season in Southern California, the Monster Energy Supercross Championship has headed north for what’s set to be a very wet second round, the 2024 San Francisco Supercross. Racing returns to Oracle Park after 14 years on the east side of the Bay, and everyone is excited to be in the city, even with the high odds of a mudder.
Supercross has only raced in this venue eight times before today, and no visit was as early as round two. Yamaha’s three 450 Class Main Events wins are the most of the OEMs, including two with Chad Reed in 2004 and 2008 and one with James Stewart in 2009, but a blue bike has never been on the top step of the podium here in the 250 Class.
105 riders are on the entry list, with 58 signed up for the 450 Class and 47 in the 250 West Coast Region.
This is the same dirt that was used for the Oakland rounds in years past, and it was trucked across the Bay Bridge and dumped on the baseball diamond for a Monster Jam event that happened last Saturday.
Weather has been a factor all week. The Dirt Wurx crew booked it here straight after A1 and started to re-shape the soil on Sunday, then put it two long days to get the bulk of the course built and covered before a rain front came through midweek. Although the rest of the week was dry but cloudy, the dark dirt was still wet and heavy in spots, and the decision was made to cancel press day.
That isn’t the only adjustment that’s been made to the schedule, though, as the AMA pushed track walk back to noon and scrapped Saturday’s Free Practice. Riders will still get two Timed Qualifying sessions to learn the track and set their place in the field, and current forecasts show a break in the weather happening around this time.
Unfortunately, a second round of showers is slated to come through around 5PM, just as the night show begins, with the heaviest happening from 7PM to 9PM, around the time bikes and riders will be on track for the Main Events. The total rainfall amount for Saturday is expected to be just over half an inch.
