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Red Bull KTM’s Aaron Plessinger said he is in “one piece” and just “sore” and “bummed out” after a late crash in the 450SX main event on Saturday night at round 10 of Monster Energy AMA Supercross in Birmingham.
Plessinger was in eighth place for the majority of the race before his late-race crash, which resulted in a 21st place finish.
Per Plessinger in a KTM press release, he “hit a rock on the face of a jump, and I felt the rear-end start to rise” and knew he wasn’t going to triple and had to ditch the bike.
Below is his full quote:
“I was planning on Birmingham being a good day. Practice went decent and the track was wild – dry and wet at the same time, if you can imagine that! It was just a wild track altogether, but I qualified ninth and then had a really good Heat Race in battling with Jorge and felt good. I got a good start in the Main Event, rode a little tight at first, and then started to loosen up as the race went on. Then I hit a rock on the face of a jump, and I felt the rear-end start to rise, which is when I knew I wasn’t going to make the triple. I tried to ditch the bike, but it was too late, and the bars hit my knees. After that it was a bit of a blur – I think I did a flip or two and, when I landed, I heard something really crunch so that was the end of my night. I went to the Medical Unit, they checked me out, and I am in one piece, but I am just sore and bummed out. I felt like we made a lot of good progress in the break, but I just have to keep grinding to get to where we need to be.”
We will provide more as we know.
Why in today’s world are they putting rocks on premier Supercross tracks? If there in the dirt used for track building it should be filtered out prior to dumping it in the stadiums.