About Action Sports Promotions
Action Sports Promotions Inc. was established by Drew Wolfe in 1979 to promote amateur motocross events in Southern Ohio. This idea originated after Drew, a local motocross racer, attended the Florida Winter AMA Motocross Series in 1978 as a pro rider’s mechanic and then competed and worked for the event promoter beginning in 1979. “The quality of those events greatly exceeded anything our local clubs and promoters had to offer. My brother Kyle and I decided to promote the best racing events for the riders here on the local level”. During the next eight years they promoted local events and gained experience in racing event operations and track building working for national motocross and supercross promoters all over the United States. They went from hay bale haulers and banner hangers to equipment operators and track builders for the AMA Supercross Series, traveling to every supercross in major stadiums across the United States.
Action Sports created a variety of original events including the world’s first indoor Jet Ski race which took place in 1991in Columbus, Ohio, the Team Harescramble Championship of the World, and the only AMA Professional Motorcycle Hillclimb ever conducted at night. Action Sports also conducted the first ever FMX freestyle motorcycle jumping contest which took place during intermission at the 1987 Columbus arenacross. The first Action Sports Arenacross took place in Columbus, Ohio in 1984 and became the largest arenacross event in the country with 1200 riders and over 14,000 spectators. The next fifteen years saw the Action Sports Arenacross Series grow to fifteen rounds in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. The series was very successful and was sold in 1999 to Pace Motorsports which is now Live Nation / Clear Channel Entertainment Motorsports. In the spring of 2004 Action Sports sold a major portion of its local amateur motorcycle racing program to promote a variety of different events. After twenty five successful years in business they continue to promote the Team Harescramble Championship of the World, The Action Sports Arenacross in Huntington, WV, and consumer trade shows.
Action Sports Promotions is owned an operated by Drew and Carolyn Wolfe. Along with their two sons they participate in motocross and other off road dirt bike racing, ATV trail riding, street bike riding and many different extreme sports. They are motorcycling and extreme sports enthusiasts and look forward to promoting many more successful events.
