Ken Roczen commits to World Supercross (WSX) for three years

Ken Roczen announced he will commit to the World Supercross Championship (WSX) for three years and become a supercross specialist. The decision was made largely to extend his career, citing the toll that motocross traditionally takes on his body.

“In the outdoor championship, I have struggled with my body and at this part of my career, I had to ask myself how can I be around this sport for a longer time?” Roczen said in a Zoom press conference Monday morning. “It wasn’t that fun the last couple of years.

“I really struggled, and it didn’t look like I wanted to do this for much longer because my body was playing with what I wanted to do. And now I have decided I’m following my heart and I want to hone in on supercross and become a specialist in that.”

Confirmed: @KenRoczen94 will race the full FIM World Supercross Championship season.

WSX will also be broadcasted to more than 180 countries and 500 million households worldwide!

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Roczen is the defending champion of last year’s two-race WSX championship with overall results of second in the British GP and third in the Australian GP. He will continue to race with Dustin Pipes’ Progressive Insurance ECSTAR Suzuki team, who fields his bike in the Monster Energy Supercross (SX) series.

The WSX championship kicks off July 1 with the second running of the British GP, which will be held in Birmingham this year at Villa Park. Round 2 will be hosted at Groupama Stadium in Lyon-Decines, France on July 22 and then there is a hiatus until the Round 3 at a location in Southeast Asia that is still to be announced. Round 3