VOL. 51 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 14, 2014
Briefly...
Eli Tomac came into the 2014 Supercross season hoping to get off to
a fast start with his new 450-class
career but a shoulder injury at Anaheim I prevented that from happening. In Phoenix, Tomac rode practice
but called it off after just one lap. He
knew right away the shoulder wasn't
up to racing yet. "I tried one lap and
that's all I could do," said Tomac. "I
had to try because I wanted to get
points if I could, but my shoulder
wasn't ready. There's nothing [seriously] wrong with it, I've had an MRI
and it was good. It's just a stretched
tendon and bruised muscle and they
said give it a week, but I'm going to
give it a couple. So I'd say the earliest I'm going to be back is Oakland."
Zach Bell was another casualty
in Phoenix. The 250-class GEICO
Honda rider suffered a broken collarbone during practice. "Zach crashed
through a rhythm lane, he came up
short on a triple and went down
and he ended up breaking his collarbone," said GEICO Honda team
manager Mike LaRocco Saturday
afternoon. "He's at the hospital now
and I think they have surgery scheduled for Sunday. They are saying he
actually broke it in three places, so
until that's done we can't determine
when he'll be back."
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Ryan Villopoto
captured his
first ever win in
Phoenix.
James Stewart clipped a jump in
practice, which resulted in a nasty
endo. The former champ was okay,
but the bike's transmission reportedly wouldn't go into neutral, so the
engine had to be replaced. Plus, the
bike was so mangled from the crash
that everything on the chassis had to
be replaced except for the frame.
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