Team Green Kawasaki and AMA Amateur Motocross mourn the loss of Aidan Zingg, 16, who died after crashing in the Mammoth Motocross in Mammoth Lakes, California.
His passing was reported by Team Green and MX Sports.
Zingg crashed during the first moto in the 250 B class and was reportedly struck by multiple bikes, according to the motocross outlet DirtbikeLover.
The young rider had recently signed with Team Green for the remainder of the 2025 season after he qualified for his seventh consecutive AMA Amateur Motocross National Championship, to held at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee beginning July 28. Zingg’s first Loretta’s appearance came in 2019.
Zingg was poised to make the move into the “B” classes and Schoolboy 2 for at Loretta’s.
In 2024, Zingg won a race on a Supermini and finished second in another event.
In an apparent show of support, 14 of 27 riders who finished the first race, including the Moto 1 winner, did not start the second race.
That drew notice from the Motocross community, which was well expressed by Christian Craig’s wife, Paige Craig, who wrote in an Instagram story, which disappear in 24 hours: “Christian told me this morning that most of the lineup for the second moto DNSed and I guess that’s part of the reason we love [this sport]. The people. The community we build & forget is there until something like this happens.”
