Scott Clark (born June 8, 1962) is an American "Old School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1978 to 1985.
Scott was and still is known for his easygoing, affable manner, as in the case of Tommy Brackens and Eric Rupe and in contrast to Greg Hill's intensity and abruptness.
First win (local): See Above Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "N" (Northern California); First sponsor: 1974, The Bicycle Hut of San Jose; one month after he started racing.
Retired: Late 1986 Age 24 during "the year of no sponsors" when even some of the most respected top pros could not find sponsorships due to manufacturers cutting back or dropping entirely their factory racing teams.
The cause of this were in part to the financial problems brought on by the advents of the revival of skateboarding, the high price of producing bicycles in the United States and most importantly companies trying to start and make room for freestyle teams with the huge boom in BMX Freestyle.
This is why during the early years of the pro division the national number one racer of a sanctioning body could be either an amateur or professional.
Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question.
With money on the line as a further incentive pro racers routinely push themselves to the edge of their talents and often beyond at the highest speeds.
In the top "AA" Pro class virtually every racer are at that same high level and have the fierce desire to dominate, to win, and have to worry about the other seven, who are just as fast as he is.
This results in highly aggressive moves to either stay in front or overtake, done at full speed backing down only when absolutely necessary with up to eight racers at a time.
Darrell Young for example; or cut short totally as with Mike Poulson and Robert Fehd.
Perhaps only Tinker Juarez has a more impressive injury-free record, especially given he was a pioneering vertical freestyler as well as a racer.
Immediately after he retired from BMX in late 1986 he got involved in motorcycle speedway racing.