On National Will Call will be open the following times:
Thursday Noon – 5pm
Friday 9am – 5pm
Saturday 7am – 2pm
Note: Please note that Rooney Road will be closed on the weekend of the National. The only way to get to the parking lots and Will Call will be to enter from the south on Alameda Parkway.
Grandstand Seating (for invited guests with proper credential)
Open Air Festival Seating
Covered VIP Viewing Areas with live timing and scoring, private restrooms, and catering(for invited guests with proper credential)
Covered Super Ticket Viewing Area (for invited guests with proper credential)
Open Air Corporate Suites (for invited guests with proper credential)
Handicap Viewing Area
Infield Track Viewing via Track Tunnels
Nearly 100% track Viewing from a variety of vantage points
Large interactive Sponsor Village
Food and Soft Drink Concessions
Beer Concessions
State-of-the-art sound system
Event Simulcast on FM Radio
State-of-the-art Announcer Tower
Baby Changing Station
VIP paid Parking
Onsite Parking
Motorcycle Parking
Handicap Parking
Easy entry/ExitShuttle Service from Outer Parking lots
Onsite Camping (with reservation only)
Reserved RV spots
Free Motorcycle Parking and Gear/Helmet Check
Amateur Motocross Racing Friday
Promoter David Clabaugh couldn’t have known how appropriate his track’s name would become. He knew that nearby was an NHRA drag-racing track with the same name (Thunder Valley), but within a few short years of the founding of the motocross track, four-strokes took over motocross completely, leaving a sound of thunder every time the gate dropped at the facility.
Clabaugh has been around racing since he was a child. “I’ve been racing since I was 10 years old,” he explains. “When I got to the pro class, I realized that it wasn’t going to last forever, and I wanted to stay in the sport somehow, so I decided I wanted to buy a track. Clabaugh has put his blood, sweat, and tears into the facility, and the national here is seen as an example of what a world-class motocross event should look and feel like.
I ran local races on the weekends; however, I wanted the facility to grow,” Clabaugh says. “I wanted an AMA Pro Motocross Championship event. In 2000, I met MX Sports’ Tim Cotter, and I figured the only way I was ever going to get a national was to start going to as many of them as I could and figure out how it worked. I worked on the banner crew for about two years, just getting the inside line on how it all works. I began talking with John Ayers [also of MX Sports] about wanting a national in order to learn all sides of the sport and figure out how to promote. During this time, I had shown interest in being a promoter, and several people had come out to my facility to see if I was equipped to have an AMA Pro Motocross Championship event. I had made lots of upgrades to the facility with buildings, filling in ravines, etc.
I heard there was going to be a spot open on the national schedule and was told that Thunder Valley was first on the list.” Truth be told, Thunder Valley wasn’t just first on the list, it was the best choice, as Clabaugh and his loyal staff have proven every year since his first national, in 2005.
Thunder Valley, just a few miles below downtown Denver, hosted its first AMA Pro Motocross National in July of 2005. In the first few years of racing at the facility, riders and mechanics were met with a combination of altitude and summertime heat that not only made it physically difficult on them but caused the fuel in the motorcycles to literally boil. The solution was a revolutionary one: in 2008, Thunder Valley hosted the first AMA Pro Motocross National ever held at night, under a battery of lights that illuminated the valley. With a live internet and TV audience watching, the race was a smash hit. This year, Thunder Valley’s event will be held during the daylight hours.
