P30
IN
THE
WIND
pro halfway through the 2012 season.
The team says it has no plans as of now
to recruit a fill-in rider for the rest of the West
Supercross Series but will rely solely on its
remaining rider Zach Osborne. The team
is hoping its other injured 250 rider, Justin
Bogle, will be ready for the opening round of
the East Series, which gets underway February 15 in Texas. Either way, the team's other two East riders Matt Bisceglia and Blake
Wharton will, as of now, be ready to go.
Zach Bell's
Supercross
season is
over after
he suffered
a broken
collarbone in
Phoenix.
GRANT BANGED UP
T
oyota/Yamaha/N-Fab/JGRMX Team's Josh Grant
got banged up in a fall during practice at the Phoenix Supercross on January 11. Grant injured his shoulder in the fall and was unable to participate in the
evening's racing program. He did come out for opening ceremonies but returned to the pits saying he just
couldn't hold on to the handlebars like he needed to.
He was scheduled to have an MRI performed on
the shoulder Monday, January 13. The team, however, has high hopes that he'll still be able to ride at the
Anaheim II Supercross, January 18.
Josh Grant hopes that a shoulder injury at the Phoenix
Kit Palmer Supercross won't keep him off the bike at Anaheim II.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
TARDOZZI BACK
TO DUCATI
A
Davide Tardozzi will manage Ducati's
MotoGP team in 2014.
fter a four-year hiatus Davide Tardozzi
is returning to Ducati Corse as the new
MotoGP team manager, the long time World
Superbike team manager going back to his
Ducati roots after most recently running
BMW's World Superbike program.
With BMW's departure from racing and the
team manager vacancy at Ducati opening up
when Vitto Guareschi left to run Valentino
Rossi's new Moto3 team, many speculated
that Tardozzi was the most likely candidate
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
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