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ALESSI FINED FOR
TICKLE INCIDENT
M
ike Alessi has been fined $4000 and put on
probation for the rest of the 2014 season fol-
lowing his run-in with Broc Tickle in a heat race for
Saturday night's Atlanta Super-
cross.
After being passed by Tickle in
the first of two heat races in the
Georgia Dome, Alessi chased
Tickle into a corner and center-
punched him, sending both riders
to the ground and ultimately to the
semis.
Afterwards, Alessi called it "just
a racing incident" and said it was "water under the
bridge." The AMA/FIM race officials and Tickle ap-
parently thought otherwise.
"After a review of the incident that took place
between rider Mike Alessi and rider Broc Tickle in
the 450SX heat race, the race director determined
that Alessi violated rule A2, c. 17 of the Monster
Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Champion-
ship, rulebook. As a result of this violation, the race
director assessed Alessi a penalty of $4,000 and
placed him on probation for the remainder of the
2014 season. There was no appeal."
Alessi and Tickle both qualified for the main
event through the semis and Alessi finished sixth in
the main – one spot ahead of Tickle.
Mike Alessi
was fined and
placed on
probation after
center-punching
Broc Tickle
in a heat race
at the Atlanta
Supercross.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
KIT
PALMER
MARQUEZ BREAKS LEG!
M
otoGP World Champion Marc Mar-
quez suffered a broken right fibula
after crashing his flat tracker in a training
accident last week in Spain. The 21-year-
old Spaniard will miss this week's test in
Malaysia and likely the following test in
Australia.
Marquez was taken to the Universi-
tario Quirón Dexeus Hospital after the
crash where Dr. Xavier Mir treated the
spiral fracture of the distal third of his
right fibula (the smaller of two bones in
the lower leg). After undergoing a CT
scan and X-ray, the break was confirmed
and no surgery was required. There was
Marc Marquez broke his leg last week in a
dirt track training crash.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
GOLD
&
GOOSE
