The AMX History website was established during the middle of 2020 when the world was in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.

During this period people started reaching out to each other and connecting with past friends and acquaintances, including the close-knit motocross community.

Identifying that the sport’s governing bodies in Australia were not maintaining or publishing the Australian and State Championship results, the idea was born to create a website to publish this information.

The site is now very popular – reaching up to 30,000 views in a month.

Motocross photographer Peter Kitchingman encouraged me to set up the site and offered to make his collection of photographs available.

My cousin, and former State Sidecarcross champion, Wayne Fanderlinden provided a big collection of programs, newspaper articles and photos to get the ball rolling.

And Peter put me in touch with motorbike historian Rosco Holden, who manages the Australian Mr Motocross Legends and Stars Facebook social media group, which also aims to preserve Australian motocross stories, photos and videos.

Since then, thanks to your help, we now have a complete list of all the Australian Motocross Champions and will aim to start building the State Championship results, which is a big job.

Below is also a summary of people and past riders (in alphabetical order) who have made significant contributions of photo’s, stories and videos.

John Steyntjes, AMX History author