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non-championship indoor event.
By the end of Sunday, July 22,
his entire world was ripped apart.
"If I landed on my shoulder I
probably wouldn't have even broke
it," Baker says of the low-speed
highside in qualifying.
"The way I landed right on top
of my head and just scorpioned off
it, so basically my back folded up
so much to where it couldn't bend
anymore. I was knocked out, and
when I woke up I remember pulling
Therapy sessions
are three hours
a pop, four days
a week. Baker's
putting in the miles
to one day get on
his feet again.
By any measure, Washington-
born Brad Baker was at the top of
his game at the start of the 2018
American Flat Track season.
The then 25-year-old former
Grand National Champion, in his
second year on the dominating fac-
tory Indian Motorcycle team, had
just secured a podium in the New
York Short Track behind Indian
teammate Jared Mees and Kenny
Coolbeth Jr. when he headed to
the X Games at Minneapolis for the
Never Stop
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
Baker was one of the very best flat
trackers in the world one year ago. Now he can't
but he's not letting that stop him.
