#14 Jeremy Medaglia Cleared to Ride and Race this Weekend at Gopher Dunes By Billy Rainford #14 Honda Canada GDR Fox Racing rider, Jeremy Medaglia, was one of the riders heading into the 2016 MX2 season with aspirations of taking home a championship. Unfortunately, after an awkward fall early in the first moto at the 2nd round of Rockstar Energy MX Nationals in Nanaimo, Jeremy was forced to sit out
Jeremy Pronovost Injury Update By Billy Rainford Quebec Pro rider, #29 Jeremy Pronovost, has been an up-and-coming rider for the past few years at the Pro level. He wasn’t planning on doing the entire Rockstar Energy MX Nationals this season and instead focused on the Quebec Provincials until the series came east toward him. Unfortunately, his plans have been dashed after a crash this past weekend at Ste. Julie has
Nathan Bles Injury Update By Billy Rainford #56 Nathan Bles from Bayfield, Ontario, has indeed suffered a broken left wrist as the result of a crash while racing at Baja Acres in Millington, Michigan, Sunday, May 29th. The fall and resulting injury come eerily close to the one-year anniversary of his badly broken left humerus last season (2 days off, to be exact). We gave the Big Steel Box Fly
Brock Leitner Injury Update By Billy Rainford I’m sorry to report that the reason you saw BC’s #497 Brock Leitner‘s name listed as DNS in the 250 LCQ at Hangtown MX is for the reason you were afraid of. Brock got caught up in the first turn pile up that sent at least 8 riders to the ground. When riders fell in front of him like dominoes, he had nowhere
Marco Cannella Injury Update By Billy Rainford Fast up-and-coming Intermediate rider, #46 Marco Cannella, is on the short list of riders to keep a close eye on rising through the amateur ranks here in Canada. The 15-year-old Hamilton, Ontario, rider has been down south training at GPF in Cairo, Georgia, getting ready for the upcoming season. He was entered in the Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross at Daytona International Speedway March
Dave Blanchet Update By Billy Rainford He was all set to perform in front of his home country this past weekend at the Rogers Centre in Toronto when he got out of shape in the tricky whoops section. As he tried to get up on top of them in free practice, his front end dropped and he got out of shape and tossed over the bars. The result was his
Jean Christophe Bujold Injured at JWTF We’ve just learned that speedy Quebec rider Jean-Christophe Bujold has suffered a broken femur while practicing down at Jimmy Weinert’s Training Facility (JWTF) down in North Carolina. From JC’s Facebook page: “During my week of training at JWTF I had bad luck on a big step-up that [earned me a ride in a] helicopter to the hospital in Greenville, North Carolina. My first real
Bobby Kiniry Update I gave Bobby Kiniry a call Friday and caught him as he was literally pulling out of the hospital parking lot. He went in for surgery Wednesday to get his hip repaired after his massive bail in Sarnia a couple weekends ago. It was major surgery to repair his broken femur (in a couple places) and broken hip (in a couple places). There were also som e
Bobby Kiniry Injury Update Rockstar Energy OTSFF Yamaha rider Bobby Kiniry took one of the scariest falls when he launched 30 feet into the air without his bike and landed flat on the solid Hiawatha Park ground in a heap last Friday night in Sarnia. You know Bobby is hurt when he doesn’t, at least, find his own way off the track and look for his bike to remount! Well,