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any other rider. With a clear
track ahead of him, he steadily
extended his lead lap-after-lap,
receiving the checkered flag
24 seconds ahead of secondplaced Ivan Cervantes.
The reversed start of the second final wasn't kind to Blazu-
siak, as he tangled with a slower
rider shortly after the start and
crashed. Forced to charge hard
in order to chase down the leading riders, Blazusiak methodically worked his way up to third
at the finish.
The night's third and closing
HALBERT INJURED!
S
ammy Halbert - the man who
pretty much calls Daytona his
own - won't be in Florida when
the AMA Grand National Championship gets started in the middle
of March.
Halbert, the all-time winningest
rider at the Daytona International
Speedway Short Track, tore his
left ACL on Saturday, February
2, at an indoor short track near
his home in Graham, Washington. He will undergo surgery this
week to repair the ACL, forcing
him to miss the opening two rac-
es of the 2013 AMA Grand National Championship at Daytona
- a race he has won three times
in six attempts.
"Usually injuries are from
crashes, but not this one," Halbert said. "In the dash-for-cash,
I caught my foot on the dirt berm
that marks the inside of the track
and twisted my knee. I won the
race, but the damage was done.
I spent most of the off-season recovering from shoulder surgery.
For this to happen now, a month
before the season opener, is
J-LAW ON THE COMEBACK
I
t now appears as though muchtroubled motocrosser Jason
Lawrence will make a return to
racing in the 2013 AMA Pro Mo-
tocross National Championship
with the talented 25-year-old
former 250 Supercross West
Champion drawing plenty of at-
VIDEO OF
THE WEEK:
TRAINING GONE AWRY?
N
ot sure of the circumstances behind this Mexican police officer's crash, but it looks painful.
final saw Blazusiak claim victory
again.
Honda rider David Knight finished second overall, followed
by Husaberg's Alfredo Gomez,
and KTM riders Nemeth and
Cervantes.
Jonty Edmunds
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA WILSON
IN
THE
Sammy Halbert suffered a knee
injury and will miss the opening two
rounds of the AMA Grand National
Championship in Daytona.
such a bummer. I was hoping to
start the year with a couple wins
at Daytona, not sitting on the
couch."
tention last week at Pala Raceway in Southern California where
he was doing a Utopia Optics
photo shoot.
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