FLAT TRACK
SUPERPRESTIGIO
DECEMBER 13, 2014
PALAU SANT JORDI/BARCELONA, SPAIN
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my head, and then the bike came
around and landed directly on my
shoulder."
He was knocked unconscious
for a good while, and shipped to
the hospital for check ups. An-
other crash could jeopardize his
plans for 2015, so he pulled out
of the evening's event.
Baker had beaten Márquez
at the first running of the event
in January, a loss which did not
sit well with the reigning Mo-
toGP champion. The Superfinal
had been meant as a showdown
between the three champions:
MotoGP champion Márquez,
AMA champ Mees and defend-
ing Superprestigio champion
Baker. And the evening had been
shaping up perfectly until Baker's
incident in qualifying. Baker had
been living up to his "The Bullet"
epithet, the fastest man during
practice. Jared Mees was fast
and getting faster, rising to the
occasion of defending the honor
of American flat track on foreign
soil, and getting his head around
the non-stop format.
"The races were very short so
nobody could get settled in. It
was just go and stop. The whole
