Ryan Villopoto is coming out of retirement—for one weekend. The four-time Monster Energy Supercross Champion confirmed he will race the entire 2016 AUS-X Open on November 12-13 in Sydney, Australia.
The event will serve as Villopoto’s first full-schedule racing appearance since announcing his retirement from professional racing last year.
Villopoto will once again face off against Chad Reed, who has also confirmed he will race the event for a second straight year.
“Racing [against] Chad will be awesome. I think that not only will Australian fans be tuning in, but the world also,” Villopoto said. "It’s a unique opportunity for supercross fans. It’ll be a thing like, “Cool, Chad’s there and so is Ryan, lets see how this pans out,” which will be exciting.”
Prior to competing in the FIM World Motocross Championship, in what would be his final season of racing in 2015, Villopoto joined Jeremy McGrath as the only two riders in AMA Supercross history with four consecutive titles. The Washington native is fifth all-time in AMA Supercross wins with 41.
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