Tag "Injury Update"

Team PRMX Supercross | Josh Cartwright Injured/Ludovic Macler to Fill In

Team PRMX Supercross | Josh Cartwright Injured/Ludovic Macler to Fill In By Billy Rainford With the recent injury and subsequent ankle surgery to PRMX Wossner Deep South Kawasaki Supercross team rider Josh Cartwright, Julien Perrier has signed Ludovic Macler to fill in for Josh in the 450 class until his return. Here’s their post from Instagram: This additional message was posted on Ludovic’s website: lmx952.fr The day after Christmas, it

Jake Piccolo Update

Jake Piccolo Update By Billy Rainford #381 Jake Piccolo from Abbotsford, BC was poised to do battle for the 2020 Future West Moto Canadian Arenacross Championships title. Unfortunately, a crash during practice on Saturday before round 1 put him out for the day and consequently the weekend. We contacted his dad, Dan Piccolo, to find out how he’s doing and whether we will be seeing him this weekend at rounds

#119 Jared Petruska Injury Update

119 Jared Petruska Injury Update By Billy Rainford After injuring his thumb at Round 1 at Gopher Dunes, Calgary racer #119 Jared Petruska has done what we’ve all tried to do – race while injured. He tried again at the final round here at Sand Del Lee and went down pretty hard during practice. He hit his head again and has decided it is finally time to call it a

Sam Gaynor Injury Update

Sam Gaynor Injury Update By Billy Rainford #28 Sam Gaynor was injured Saturday at Round 5 of the Rockstar Energy Triple Crown Tour Canadian MX Nationals at Sand Del Lee. As he came around to put a rider down a lap, the rider moved over to let Sam have the line, but as Sam drifted wide their lines came together and contact was made. Sam knew he’d done some damage

Phil Nicoletti Injury Update

Phil Nicoletti Injury Update By Billy Rainford #54 Phil Nicoletti and #9 Dylan Wright colided in mid-air Saturday at Sand Del Lee in moto 1 of Round 5 of the 2020 Rockstar Triple Crown Tour Canadian MX Nationals. Here’s the video clip: Phil was unable to finish the moto while Dylan went on to a dominant win. Here’s an update from Rockstar OTSFF Yamaha Team Manager, Steve Simms: “Overall, good

Wyatt Waddell Injury Update

Wyatt Waddell Injury Update By Billy Rainford A rather forgettable season came to an unfortunate end Saturday at Round 5 of the 2020 Rockstar Energy Triple Crown Tour MX Nationals for #157 Wyatt Waddell. It seems like it’s been one thing after another for the rider from British Columbia, but this one was different. After Wyatt crossed the finish line to complete the first moto of the fifth round at

Casey Keast Injury Update

Casey Keast Injury Update After a weekend that saw young #77 Casey Keast from Kelowna, British Columbia, get his first-ever moto podium (3rd in moto 2) in the 250 class at Sand Del Lee, Casey crashed while practicing at the track early this week and was taken to the hospital by Keylan Meston to get checked out. We spoke very briefly with Casey Wednesday evening and he said that he’s

#619 Jarek Inancsi Injury Update

619 Jarek Inancsi Injury Update By Billy Rainford When I saw a new BC license plate on Friday before Round 1 of the Rockstar Triple Crown Tour MX National at Gopher Dunes, I wandered over to introduce myself to #619 Jarek Inancsi from Hope, British Columbia. He agreed to do a video interview and I think everyone who watched it had a new rider to keep tabs on for his

Kaven Benoit Injury Update

Kaven Benoit Injury Update By Billy Rainford Canadian MX1 #3, Kaven Benoit, headed over to Germany last week to compete in the Dortmund SX. At the start of the SX final on the second night, Kaven landed hard on his right leg just after the start and immediately knew he’d done damage to it as he franticly waved the medics over. We gave him a call to see how he’s