WSX announces six-round championship for 2023
The 2023 WSX Championship series will travel to six countries on four continentsThe World Supercross Championship will evolve from two rounds to six rounds, with a provisional 2023 calendar released last week.
Beginning on July 1 in Birmingham, UK, the 2023 WSX Championship will then head to Lyon, France on July 22. The third round is currently scheduled for September 30 in South East Asia, although a specific location is yet to be announced.
The fourth round will take the series to Dusseldorf, Germany on October 14, before heading to Vancouver, Canada for round five on October 28. The finale will once again take place at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on November 25.
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“It’s incredibly gratifying to see our vision for a truly global supercross championship steadily coming to fruition,” said SX Global CEO, Adam Bailey. “Our goals are to elevate supercross to a global audience through a truly international calendar of events.”
The series will visit a number of interesting venues with Brimingham’s Villa Park, Lyon-Decines’ Groupama Stadium, and Dusseldorf’s Merkur Spiel-Arena, playing host to the Aston Villa, Olympique Lyonnais, and Fortuna Dusseldorf association football teams respectively.
Villa Park, which seats approximately 42,000 people, was opened in 1887 and is owned and operated by the Aston Villa Football Club. As well as football, it has also hosted cricket, boxing, rugby league, rugby union, athletics and cycling, as well as many major concerts.
The Canadian round will take place at Vancouver’s BC Place, which is the home of the BC Lions Canadian Football League team and the Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer, and it was the primary stadium for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
It has also hosted an NFL game and even an Australian Rules football exhibition match, which drew a record international AFL/VFL crowd of 32,789. Like Marvel Stadium, it features a retractable roof.
Ken Roczen won the inaugural WSX Championship after the two-round 'pilot' season finished in Melbourne in November. The first round was held in Cardiff, UK.
In October, SX Global chief Tony Cochrane said that there would be “eight rounds, probably nine” in 2023 if “he was a gambling man”. He also said it should grow to “12 or 13” rounds in 2024, and then to 16 in 2025.
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