The AMA ATV Motocross Championship is the premier professional and amateur ATV motocross series in the world, offering classes for riders as young as four years and as old as they want to be, and for machines from 50cc to 450cc. There's a class for everyone in the series, and riders can choose to chase a championship or just enjoy a day of competitive racing.

Since 2008, the series has been administered by the ATVPG (ATV Promoters Group), providing uniformity and consistency to event production and sponsorship implementation. National events are hosted at premiere motocross racetracks across the United States. The promoters of these host facilities have experience in the design, preparation and maintenance of ATV-friendly racetracks. The 10-round series features the Nation's best ATV racers, teams and sponsors, and is America's largest and longest-running ATV national motocross program. Since 1985, the series continues to expand and produce top talent from the amateur ranks, while premiering the professional class. A typical National event will attract 500-600 racers, hailing from almost every state, as well as from Canada and around world.

Expanding in global popularity is side-by-side (SxS) racing. The latest class of four-wheeled off-road competition is composed of a variety of race disciplines, the most dominant of which in the U.S. is the short-course. UTV racing is often run as a series of events that pits a field of drivers against one another on a closed course made up of various turns, big jumps and challenging obstacles.

In 2016 Yamaha introduced its first pure sport SxS, the Yamaha YXZ1000R. It has quickly become the model of choice for side-by-side UTV racers around the world has won multiple National and Regional titles in the U.S.