Throwback Thursday: Damon Bradshaw’s Dream Charlotte Supercross Win (1990)

Larry Lawrence | February 23, 2023

22,700 Partisan Fans Watched Hometown Hero Score Victory

In this week’s Throwback we travel back nearly 33 years to May of 1990 and the Charlotte Supercross. It was the first ever AMA Supercross event to run in the state of North Carolina and small Charlotte Memorial Stadium on the campus of Central Piedmont Community College was packed with fans hoping to see their hometown hero Damon Bradshaw do well. The Tar Heels got even more than they expected as Bradshaw engaged and came out on top in a nearly race-long battle with reigning Supercross champ Jeff Stanton. The 22,700 fans sounded like a crowd 10 times that size as Bradshaw took a victory lap without his helmet and stopped at one point to salute his fans. Veteran Cycle News contributor Henny Ray Abrams captured that emotional moment of sheer jubilation. It was a storybook tale and Bradshaw, who was just 17 at the time, called the win the best of his career.

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