Hannegan 1990 - 125 Pro Class

This video was taken at one of the CMC Goldstar series races at Hannegan back in 1990. The top three riders in the 125 Pro class race, Lance Smail, Brett DeVries and Scott Steffy, were the cream of the local crop of riders at the time. The track was pretty smooth and fast on this day, but these three riders were definitely hauling ass! I was really getting into racing at the time, and had seen these guys at the Seattle supercross and on ESPN, which had recently begun broadcasting all of the supercrosses in 1989. I remember thinking that Steffy's hot pink MSR gear was awesome! I was just a measly little 125 Junior class rider at the time, and this was the first year that my parents would allow me to race motocross. I never thought I would be able to ride anywhere close to as fast as these guys were going.

Several features existed on the track back in 1990 that are no longer existent today:

First is was the infamous double jump after the second turn. I remember, as a Junior rider, this jump loomed as a nightmare in my dreams and antogonized me every single race. I saw several bad accidents on the jump, and that made me even more nervous about jumping it. There were only several riders in the Junior class jumping the big double, and it dominated the conversation while we were waiting to take to the track for practice. One race I finally tried it, but I made a half hearted attempt and cased it terribly. After that, I blocked it out of my mind that I wasn't going to try anymore. Fortunately, for my lack of courage, the club ended up making the double into a big table top jump and I didn't have to worry about it any more.

The next feature that is no longer available are the sections that went into the woods. There were two. One was after the big double. It went out to the gas line rightofway and did a big, sweeping right hander and had a table top to re-enter the open area. Next was after the long straightaway with the big singles. I loved going back there. There was a sweeping chicane onto the gasline with a slight rolling downhill into an awesome bermed righthander. The back straight often times had some fun jumps before dropping into a little valley. At the top of the valley exit was a fast sweeping right hander that swept up to a step back onto the main track area.

The third big change was the old Mt. Baker jump. When I started racing in 1990 it was a big towering single jump. For this particular race, it had recently been cut down in size by about a half. Maybe it was for safety, I don't know.

The rest of the track is probably 10-15 ft. lower in elevation than where the track currently sits today. Excavation for the Bellis Fair mall was dumped in the low lying areas because the track had a tendency to get really swampy.

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• Hannegan
• 1990
• 125
• Pro
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• motocross
• mx
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• smail
• steffy
• devries
• cmc
• goldstar
• series

[vmxrm85]

wow awesome video! i miss the 125s

[scott387]

Sean, I don't think you were in the Junior class ever when I was racing.

[danielracing015]

now thats a good race now days its all 4-strokes (i race a 2-stoke ktm sx 125 2006 myself) the 4 stokes are lazy bikes. to strokes are the real race bikes you have o be i perfect gear and keep throttle just rite to to fuck up on a jump. 4 strokes you pretty much idle over them. (how is that fun or how is that racing is the question?)

[DDylan816]

It's amazing how much speed these guys carry through the corners... It's something that you definitely don't see nowadays...

[rmrooster01]

Yea now its them fart cans. Ill always be a two stroke guy. Any monkey can ride the new bike. These high priced high maintenance fart cans have taken the fun out of mx. Its such a high priced sport now.

[TheReeceboi]

i have a 89 rm 125 i love it so much 125 two strokes are the best better then the shitty 4 strokes nowadays

[zx6arrrgh]

nice :)

[PullCordGrabGears]

I turned intermediate 1 year after I started racing. I just don't remember what year that was....89 or 90.....

[PullCordGrabGears]

Yes......

[vmxrm85]

sean?

[PullCordGrabGears]

This is great! Man I miss those days. I think this was my second year racing. To watch them race was amazing. I love hearing the singing sound of the 125's.

Hey Scott, was this the race that as a junior rider I took off accidentally with the intermediates?......mabe it was the year before........anyway, that was fun to watch. 3 completely different styles on a bike.