Ha den
lniured,
Ho
es
To
Race
lulawasaki's
Roger Lee Hayden
suffered
a broken and
!\islocated
tibia and fibula
of his
ritht leg as a result of
his crash
in the second of two
AMA SuP€rbike
eventt dur_
int the
Barb€r Motorsports
Park doubleheader
on Sunday,
April
2l-
on Monday, Ap.il 24,
Hayden
was en route to
Dr
Arthur Ting's of{ice
in San
Jose,
California,
where
he was
scheduled to underSo
surSery
later that day.
Hayden
crashed out
of the second SuPerbike
race after
getting
together
with
l+p€r
rames
Kerker.
"The
tiEfib
is broken and was dislocated,"
saH the
youngest
Hayden
brother on APril
24.
"l'm
on
my way to
Ting s now
to
tet
it worked on.
I had
SoBen
around the
lapper
toinS
up into
lturn]
three,
and he
8ot
into the ba.k
of
me. He
hit my rear wheel, and
we were
into the wall
like thot."
Hayden
says he will try to
Srit
his teeth
and ride in lhe
AMA Supe6port
race this coming
weekend
at California
Speedway.
"They
re
goinS
to
look at
it and see what can t€ done,
but l'm
toing
to try
and ride,"
Hayden saad.
"l'm
only
8oin8
to do Supersport,
but even
if I
8et
2lst. it's still
l0
Points.
Im scheduled
to
80
into sur8ery riSht when
I
8et
there,
and hopefully
ever/thing
goes good."
Prior to the second
Sup€rbike race on
Sunday,
Hayden
had won the Supersport
race at Barber
The
victor/ was
t
hi5 second
in a row and
put him atop Yamaha's
Jamie
Hackint
in the points. 74-66, after
two ofthe
I I rounds.
On Sunday
nisht at the tmck,
tearn
manager Mike
Preston
wouldn't speculate
on whether
Hayden, the
Supersport
championship
leader, would
be fit to ride at
California
Spe€dway.
"Talkint to him,
he's
plaflning on riding next week,"
Preston said of
Hayden, who was
treeted aM released
from
the hoEpital
in BirminSham.
"we're
Solng
to
8o
[Mondar.
Check with
Ting to make
sure everythinS's
good."
Birmingham
is the
home of one ol the country's
Pre-
eminent
sports surS€ons,
Dt
James
Andrews,
a doctor
recommended
to th€ HaFens by
Hichael
Jordan.
But
Andrews couldn't
op€rate until
Wedne.sday, so lhe
de(i_
iioo was
made to
fly west.
As Hayden describ€d
the crath to
Preston, he'd
Pas!€d
Kerker
on the
run over the hill to the
hairPin turn
four
when Kerker
ren into the ba
