Herlings Injury Update
R
ed Bull KTM's Jeffrey Her-
lings says he'll sit out the
next two rounds of the MXGP se-
ries due to an injury he suffered
at the Grand Prix of Germany in
Teutschenthal, June 11. Herlings
fell in the first moto, got up and
finished the race but didn't start
moto two. A MRI revealed that
the GP star suffered "a potential
-
ly cracked C5" vertebra. Surgery
is not needed but rest is.
The Dutch rider recently took
his 102nd win at the Spanish GP,
setting the record for the most
MXGP wins.
"It's hard to find many words,"
Herlings said. "It sums up my
career in a way: we get the wins
record, but then suffer another
injury and another setback.
"I still don't know what re
-
ally happened with the crash
because I'd been using that
line nicely in the moto until that
point. Afterwards my neck didn't
feel right. I tried to finish and
take what points I could, but I
know my body very well by now
and could feel something was
wrong. So, we'll miss another
two GPs at least but I'm glad I
won't need surgery, and I hope to
be back with my team and rac
-
ing again as soon as I can."
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of the rut I was in. I tucked the
front and went over the bars. I
was on an uphill and in between
ruts; it was really difficult to find
neutral and took me a while to
get going again, but we finished
that off in seventh.
"I was ready to go all-out in
the second moto; we ripped a
holeshot and I went as long as
possible. I led almost all the
way to the end, but I was stuck
in some bad lines. But once an
-
other rider passed me, I caught
some of his lines and I held on
for second. So, I went seventh
and second for second over
-
all, which felt amazing. Man, I
couldn't have done it without the
team, the work that we've put in,
and my mechanic Travis who's
doing an amazing job. It was
a great, great, great weekend
putting it on the podium, and
winning qualifying, and leading
laps. It could not have gone any
better."
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Jeffrey Herlings will
sit out at least the next
two GPs to recuperate
from injury.
