Racer X Injury Report
Friday, February 11, 2011 | 2:15 PM
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Jimmy Albertson – Knee
Comment: Albertson crashed on the third lap of his second qualifying session and caught his leg under the bike. It was initially thought that he broke his leg, but X Rays showed no broken bones.
Stroupe reinjured his shoulder at A2.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Comment: Albertson crashed on the third lap of his second qualifying session and caught his leg under the bike. It was initially thought that he broke his leg, but X Rays showed no broken bones.
Jeff Alessi – Foot
Comment: From the Alessi Weekly newsletter: Jeff will be on the mend for about 2 weeks with a small bone (metacarpal) broken in his foot.
Travis Baker – Finger
Comment: Travis broke his middle finger in half and lacerated his index finger open. The Asterisk crew stitched his finger and set his middle finger at the track. According to his team, he will be off the bike for four weeks, but he will be back 100 percent for Seattle.
Another blow for the TLD team, as Baker is on the mend until Seattle.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Daniel Blair – Leg and Back
Comment: Fractured his femur, L4 & L5 vertebrae in a practice crash at Anaheim II. Daniel had a successful surgery on his leg, but they are still weighing out their options for surgery on his back. He will be bed ridden for several weeks.
Michael Byrne – Wrist
Comment: The new BTOSports.com/BBMX Suzuki pilot suffered a Lunate dislocation of his right wrist at the Bercy SX back in November, which required surgery. He was released by the doctor and started riding and he’s planning to return in San Diego.
Christian Craig – Knee
Comment: Tore the patella tendon from the bone and is having surgery to reattach. He is expected to be back on the bike in six to eight weeks.
Matt Goerke – Ankle
Comment: The TiLube rider injured his ankle while preparing for Anaheim 1. He told us he’s planning on returning to action in San Diego.
Josh Grant - Knee
Comment: Josh underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair the damage he sustained at Phoenix and preliminary reports are that he'll return to racing in a few weeks.
Wil Hahn – Back
Comment: Hahn during the first practice session at Anaheim 1 and landed on his back. Hahn suffered a compression fracture of his T-5 vertebra. It’ll be a few months before Hahn can resume his training routine.
Josh Hansen – Finger
Comment: Broke his pinky at Anaheim 2 but still raced (and won) the main. He should be a little better when the series returns to San Diego next weekend.
Austin Howell – Ribs and lung
Comment: Austin has three broken ribs and bruised lung resulting form the practice crash at Anaheim 2. Shea Racing expects him to return at the Seattle SX.
Stroupe reinjured his shoulder at A2.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Austin Stroupe – Shoulder
Comment: Austin reinjured his shoulder casing a jump at Anaheim 2. Not sure if he had surgery or if he just has to let it heal. Probably not racing for a while.
Tevin Tapia – Wrist
Comment: Tevin was expected to debut for Shea Racing at Houston tomorrow, but broke and dislocated his wrist yesterday. No date on his possible return until after his surgery.
Jake Weimer – Arm
Comment: Suffered a broken arm prior to Anaheim 1. He is expected to return later this season.
Ryan Zimmer – Ankle
Comment: Broke his ankle in early January.
Bryce Vallee: Wrist
Comment: Bryce fractured the scaphoid bone in his left wrist pre-season, but it was originally diagnosed as a sprain. After stuggling with the pain in the first few rounds, a 2nd medical opinion showed that his wrist had been broken the whole time. Surgery was performed and Bryce’s return to racing will depend on the healing process.
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Pinky!? what a soldier!
The list of Injured Riders seems to get longer about this time every year.
Hey Track designers and AMA: doesn't this tell you something?
We can have great races without some of the on-the-edge-of-disaster track designs and 450cc machines that are so brutally fast and use nowhere-near the horsepower the offer.
Then maybe fewer guys would be hurt and the racing would be better too.
Just a thought...
Man that sucks for Stroupie! Avoiding injury in this sport is like avoiding taxes. You can't!
@KG .. it's a double edged sword. when they tame the tracks down all the top guys ***** and moan that they're too easy .. when they're too technical the rest of them start crashing their brains out .. i'm with you though, if an easier track levels the playing field, so be it!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
jeff alessi broke his widdle foot,
did that happen when he ran josh grant off the track?
I don't like seeing anyone get hurt but that's what Alessi gets for sidelining Grant with a knee injury in one of the most obvious take-outs I have ever seen. I don't think I've ever seen anyone look over their shoulder 3 times in such a short section just to make sure the guy behind them hits the dirt. It could have been a lot worse for the both of them at the time. The Alessi's should disappear, do they even have fans?
Awww Lil Hanny broke his Lil Pinky....
And Alessi should have got a broken face!!!!
Broken hand and fingers to broken pinky ?.....still a great ride none the less.....
The Aless's have fans...Mom, Dad & (1) track ho.......
I am still suprised Stewart can walk after his get off in practice at Oakland, the case on the triple...I watched that crash and Canards from Dodger stadium over and over.....
Yeah retardcross, the Alessis (Mike & Jeff) do have fans. "Live by the sword, die by the sword", "the golden rule" and "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"are old sayings Josh Grant should remember because it was his shenanigans that brought this about. I'd like to see #33 on the track but, his jackassery has bitten him in the azz (or knee, more appropriately). Clearing out Mike a couple of years ago when he was riding with a bum knee has apparently come back to haunt him (kind of ironic that #33 suffered a knee injury, huh?). Maybe they should bury the hatchet & move forward amicably.....or not. Maybe if any of the "metal mulisha" were racers instead of poster children for a tattoo removal company, #33 would have someone to back his (innapropriate) play but, (thankfully) that's not the case. Josh, Jeff & Mike are all pretty good guys that are caught up in a rivalry gone bad and they should ease up for the sake of their careers but, sometimes kids just won't play nice.
Agree Carlsbad. Alessi fan here. Grants takeout of move of 800 was nowere near as bad as his takeout of Villopoto when he dove through him at Atl SX in 08. One of the ost Chcken***t moves I have ever seen.
JimM
Carlsbad Ca
stroupe rocking the small double chin during trackwalk. looks like he could have been working out a bit more.
sooooo much early career potential as rider and a possible contender down the drain.
sad really.
hey if any of you so called riders even watch racing clearly ? Its pretty much dirty tactics threw out the racing no matter whom it is. Some are just more focus on because of there status. But every one seems to forget the real racers the privaters that barely make to race to race with no big rig or a million candy asses catering to there every need.. What a joke in reality knowing that your bikes and set ups are indeed better the rest of the top fifteen.. Anyways so quit *****ing about who did what its racing and thats it, focus on the other riders that truly make the sport becaus with out them would u just go see just he top five race ? Not !! So wake up racers and so called fans and cheer for the other guys once an a while you know !!!
I don't agree with Jeff Alessi taking out Josh Grant, but you can't say that Josh didn't do the same thing to Mike when he was in the championship hunt. Both were big time take out moves.
I also remember one of the most vicious ram jobs when Josh tried to blow through Villopoto when he got hung on a wall section in the lites class ( i think houston or atlanta). I think it was in 07. If you can dish it out you have to be able to take it. I think Josh has matured alot since then though. Block passing or running a guy high is one thing, but doing something when you know it could hurt a guy is another.
801 should have stuffed him over a berm or something more conventional.
They way he did it was way too obvious.
who cares about alessi doesnt deserve a mention
I agree with you trick, but remember Mike had his knee cap wired together just one week earlier. If you've ever broken your knee cap, then you know how much it sucks.
wha wha wha, who cares about this list. LETS GO RACING!
I think this all started when they all were amatures and the Alessi's were ruling and being a bunch of retards. It has and always will come back to bite them. What comes around goes around and we are 3/4 around the circle.
trick- that was too comical! Widdle foot! You guys all give me a good chuckle every time I read your comments. Not implying that I dont agree with half of it, but you guys make me laugh!!!!!!!!!
I don't mind a block pass or being ridden high on a berm, that is racing. Smart line management. Taking someone out not good. No one wants a t bone steak served to end the season. If two guys are going for the championship late in the season and they both up the anti and bang around a bit but do still respect each other that is the best racing. Squid taking out top five guy, kill that squid.
You bunch of sorry keyboard racers. who said Stroupe was rockin a Double'chin??? looked at the pic twice, never saw a double chin. I do remember Stroupie battling with Reed and Stewey, even led a heat for a bit. Your gonna call that a waste of talent? waste of talent is KTM hiring that fagg #8000 n his butt'dart bro. Josh grant and his dad are some of the coolest guys out there. Josh can obviously kill both of em on a track, Mike grant needs to break tony's face, mike's neck, and jeff's knee
@pinned927 Who's number 8000???
OK i take back what i said about jeff alessi. I am sorry he broke his foot. Grant probably did deserve it, that just seems like such a long time ago, that he took out 800. I thought the score had been settled since then, and this was just a little extra. But, these guys should get into the 'octogon' and settle this, not on a race track. somebody is going to get hurt, eventually, the way they keep going back and forth.
Grant deserved what he got from Alessi, Karmas a *****