PHOTO
BY JOHN BETHEA
Rossi
Bock
in the Groove
CMC
Spring
Classic Nationals
South
Round
?: Starwest
Cgcl€ Park
PERRIS, CA,
APR. 23
l\on r exDect loev Rossi to ask
for another
IJoo.o."
,"tr,on
,ny
rime soon. espec,ally
in a
Cl'tC series event such
as round tlvo
of
the Sprine
Classic
Nationals South, held at Star-
wes.'s supercross track.
Nearly two
months
€o,
Rossi,
who had been terrorizing
his fellow
l25cc
Junior
racers
in the Golden State
National
Series with solid
wins week
after
week durinS
qlralifiers, kept it up at the Satur-
day round of a two-day
championship
w€ek-
end at Glen
Helen Raceway, and
heading into
the Sunday
frnale. i( should
have been a shoorn
for the 2006 series championship
when
he
went our for a second
practice
to fine'tune
his
Cycle Gear/Spy/Kyle/FBC
Honda.
As it turned
out, that
was a bi8 mistake for the
ls-year-old,
who seldom
takes a second
practice.
"Some guy
on a
450
came
to the
inside of
me and clipped
my handlebars,"
he recounred,
"and
lwent
ri8ht to the
8round."
That's all h€ can remember
of the incident.
Suffering
his first-ever
concussion, he
\^ras
out
for more than a minute
and earned himself
a
trip to the
hospital. k took a few
weeks to heal
the accompanying
scrapes
and bruises.
"[He
made his comeback
at a niSht
race]
here
at Starwest and
won," he said, so
l've
been tryina to
Eet
back
into the
groove."
ln the
Sroove
he was on this day,
redu.inS
the
l25ccJunior
field to another bun
