AutoTrader.com/Toyota Yamaha announced yesterday that Phil Nicoletti, the team’s permanent replacement rider, will fill in for the injured Weston Peick at Round 4 of Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, this weekend in Oakland.
Peick sustained a broken foot late in the main event at Round 2 in Phoenix. The following week he underwent surgery to have a screw inserted to stabilize the broken bone. The California native tried to race this weekend at Round 3 in Anaheim, but re-injured the foot on the first lap in untimed practice. He flew back to team headquarters in Charlotte, NC, that night and visited with doctors on Monday. There is currently no timetable for his return.
Nicoletti, on a similar fill-in program a season ago, logged his best finish of the year at his home race in East Rutherford, where he finished twelfth. Oakland will mark the first race of the season for the New York native, but the team says he’s been putting laps on the supercross track throughout the off-season to be ready.
