Promising MX Star Chance Hymas Signs with Team Honda

American Honda announced the signing of Chance Hymas, a young motocross rider with impressive results in amateur national events. The 16-year-old native of Pocatello, Idaho, will ride for Team Honda’s in-house amateur program.

Hymas has enjoyed a respectable 2021 amateur season thus far, taking titles at Spring a Ding Ding (Open Pro Sport) and the James Stewart Spring Championship (250 Pro Sport) and finishing second overall at the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship (Open Pro Sport and 250 Pro Sport) and the Scouting Moto Combine West. This season has also seen him dabble in off-road racing, tallying Pro 250 wins in WORCS and NGPC rounds.

Hymas will make his Honda racing debut aboard a CRF250R at an event this weekend. He’ll also campaign the Motoplayground Race in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Next year, he will take part in the Supercross Futures series and Amateur National motocross events, as well as the latter part of the AMA Pro Motocross series. Through his family’s Pocatello PowerSports dealership, Hymas will also continue to compete in selected off-road races. Hymas is scheduled to move to Team Honda HRC for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

“I’m very excited to be joining Team Honda and to be a part of such a legit program,” said Hymas. “It’s an honor to be an in-house amateur rider with American Honda, and it’s going to be an absolute blast! I’m looking forward to the future, and I’m going to make the best of this opportunity.”

“I’m thrilled to bring Chance to the Honda family,” added Brandon Wilson, Manager of Sports & Experiential at American Honda. “We already have a strong connection with his family through their dealership, and he’s just a great person to work with. The fact that he works on his own motorcycles also speaks volumes about his character. We look forward to a long, successful relationship together.”

The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame recently named Marilyn Stemp and Steve Piehl to its board of directors.

Stemp is a pioneering figure in the motorcycle industry, founding IronWorks Magazine with her late husband, Dennis, and becoming the first female editor of a nationally circulated, mainstream motorcycle magazine. She also revived their trade magazine, Iron Trader News; edits the monthly Kiwi Indian News; contributes to several powersports media outlets; and is the founding editor of Sturgis Rider Daily. Stemp is a noted editor and writer of several motorcycle-focused books. Her consistent support for charitable efforts in the industry include the annual Biker Belles Celebration, Las Vegas BikeFest and as campaign chair for the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum’s development plan in 2014. She co-founded the Flying Piston charity events taking place in Daytona and Sturgis each year and is a National Ambassador for All Kids Bike. Stemp was inducted into both the Las Vegas Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Sturgis Museum's Hall of Fame in 2018, and in 2022 she was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in Powersports by DealerNews.