Tortelli
Out
With
lniury
1/TM
suffered anorher
blow
in the Moto.ross
World Championship
Series after losinS team
rider Sebastien
Tortelli to
l\n rn;,.rry ar rhe
Portuguese
Grand Pnx on April
23. The
KTNI team recen[ly lost
Mickael Pichon
because of health
problems,
and
now they've
lost Tonelli. who suffered
a dislocated
hip in the second
moto.
Kurt Nicoll,
KTM Motorspon's
director, sPoke
about Tortelli
s iniur/ while attending
the race.
''Sebastien's
right
hip is dislocared, and rhey
put
it back
in here at the track,"
Nicoll said-
"He will have a scan
made at
the
local hospital,
and tomorrow
[Monday,
APril 24],
he will fly to France.
we
can't say any
more
yet.
A dislocated
hip
can
mean anything
from three weeks !o
rhree
months. They did not
give an indication
at the track. but the
fact that it
wenr
back in
quickly is very
8ood.
"\rye
came
into this season with
high hopes, but
we have tost Pichon
to an illness and
Sebastien to iniury so
it has been
abitofadisaster,''Nicoiladded.'Theonlygoodn€wsisthat.lona(han[gannagan],withthe2007bike,isridingwellabove
exPectations
"
Geoff Meyet
Sebostien
Tortelli ir our of
the ttX
World Chompionships
indefinitely with o dislo
