After retiring from AMA Supercross and AMA Motocross competition just over a year ago, Zach Osborne has announced he will return to professional racing, but in a different capacity. The former AMA Motocross champ is switching to off-road and joining the AmPro Yamaha team. He will contest the XC2 250 Pro class in Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) aboard a Yamaha YZ250FX as well as select US Sprint Enduro rounds.
Zach Osborne has joined the AmPro Yamaha team to race GNCC and select rounds of the US Sprint Enduro series
“I’m super excited and grateful for this opportunity,” Osborne said. “My first conversation with [team owner] Randy [Hawkins] about joining his team and the off-road community dates all the way back to the end of 2007, so for this to come to fruition at a time when I was looking for a new opportunity is just super cool!
I’m excited to get the season started in a few short months and I hope to make the team and our sponsors proud. I’ve been back to full-time training for about six weeks now and things are responding well heading into the holidays and my January training camp!”
“I couldn’t be more excited to be reunited with AmPro Yamaha,” Russell said. “Randy and all the guys here helped me start my GNCC racing career, so in a way, it feels like coming home and it’s good to be back. I finished off 2022 with a few overall wins in GNCC and had career-best finishes in NEPG, so I’m very stoked to take that momentum into 2023 on the all-new YZ450F battling for championships!”