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Twisted Tea Suzuki announced Saturday morning that Jason Anderson would miss round 8 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross at Daytona “due to ongoing medical issues.”
During his 2025 season with Monster Energy Kawasaki, Anderson missed a significant portion of the year as he dealt with health issues. In October of last year, Anderson told the Moto X Pod show that he has been dealing with thyroid issues:
“I’ve just really been struggling over the years with with my thyroid and I have been on medicine for my thyroid to help, but my thyroid is kind of really been hard to manage,” he said. “It also has to go with my EBV, which Epstein-Barr is like multiple different things. There’s eight different types. You can have mono [for example]. Basically I’m getting sick a lot. And from San Diego on until Seattle, I probably had a cold four times to where I wasn’t able to like really ride or anything like that. Then even in outdoors, same thing, you know, and I really just needed to give my body a rest. There was no training that I could do or anything along those lines that it was going to help me, because anytime I would train, I would just get sick, you know? And when you’re traveling in airplanes all the time and everything like that, I just really had a hard time keeping my health together. I never really had that issue when I was younger. I could kind of burn the candle on both ends, and it never really affected me, you know? I’ll just be completely honest is if I would go out right now and I was to go just get hammered for a night, I would wake up with a cold and I would be screwed for a week. Back in the day, I could go out every Saturday night and still be on the podium and winning on the weekends as long as I trained. You know that wearing on my body wasn’t as hard on me then as it is now.”
It is unclear if these issues are what is causing Anderson to miss time this year.
After missing most of the 2025 season, Anderson signed with HEP Suzuki and claimed the SX1 (450) title in the FIM World Supercross Championship. He began the 2026 season with a fifth at the Anaheim 1 opener and then finished fourth in the series return to Anaheim in early Janurary.
Through seven rounds of Supercross, Anderson is currently 9th in 450SX points.
