Tickets are now on sale for the 2014 edition of the Sacramento Mile, which takes place this year on Saturday, July 26, 2014, at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California. Tickets for this year’s race can now be purchased online HERE.
This year will be the 49th running of the race with one of the richest traditions in the AMA Pro Grand National Championship. Leading riders and teams from across the country will converge on Cal Expo, all in hopes of coming away champion of the 2014 Sacramento Mile.
The event is making a special offer for free standing room only tickets to children 12 years old and under, and all other ticket prices for children 12 years old and under will be 50% off. Also, Sacramento Mile attendees that arrive by motorcycle will park for free. Additionally, your 2014 Sacramento Mile ticket includes admission to the California State Fair for Saturday, July 26th.
This is the 49th running of the Sacramento Mile. The race, which first ran in 1959, is one of the most tradition-filled events on the AMA Pro Grand National Championship calendar. This year fans have the opportunity to potentially see history in the making. Michigan’s Bryan Smith is slated to return and try to win a fourth-straight Sacramento Mile. That would mark the longest winning streak in the history of the race.
“I look at Sacramento as a home away from home,” Smith said. “That race has always been good to me. To have a chance to be the first to win four in a row there is a real honor, especially considering all the great riders who’ve raced Sacramento over the years.”
The past Sacramento Mile winners Smith refers to reads like a Who’s Who of American motorcycle racing. The legendary Carroll Resweber was the first to taste victory at Sacramento, when he rode his factory Harley-Davidson to victory in the AMA Grand National held at the track on July 19, 1959. Since then Motorcycle Hall of Famers such as Joe Leonard, Gary Nixon, Hank Scott, Jay Springsteen, Ricky Graham, Bubba Shobert, Scott Parker and Chris Carr have all stood atop the Sacramento Mile podium.
Fans will also have the unique opportunity this year to witness female racing sensation Shayna Texter make her Sacramento Mile Grand National Championship debut. Texter, who twice won the Pro Singles support class race at Sacramento, is hoping to make history as the first woman ever to win an AMA Pro Grand National Championship race. And she is hoping to resurrect Triumph‘s fortune in GNC racing. The last a Triumph motorcycle to win the Sacramento Mile was 50 years ago when the late great Gary Nixon rode the British-made machine to victory in 1964.
The AMA Pro Grand National Championship series is one of the longest running motorcycle racing championships in the world. Known by its fans as flat track racing, many consider this form of motorcycle racing the most exciting on the planet. On the long straights of the Sacramento Mile top speeds can reach 130 miles per hour and, running just inches apart, riders then broadslide their machines into the turns at triple-digit speed, controlling their arc through by throttling up and spinning their bike’s rear wheel, all of this on a racing surface made of dirt! Flat track racing has produced many of America’s Motorcycle Grand Prix Champions such as Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Kenny Roberts, Jr. and Nicky Hayden.
Practice for the Sacramento Mile begins at on Saturday, July 26 at 2:15 p.m. and opening ceremonies for the evening program kick off at 6:15 p.m.
For more information: www.amaproracing.com
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