Photo by: Hoppenworld
Some times it absolutely blows my mind the injuries that Supercross riders can tell themselves to ignore. Motorcycle Superstore / Suzuki’s Jimmy Albertson crashed in the first timed qualifying session, got up, finished qualifying with the eighteenth fastest lap, qualified directly out of his heat race and finished seventeenth in the main event before going to the ER at the local hospital. Once at the hospital, x-rays showed that Jimmy had broken his sternum—as he put it, “pretty bad”—right where the sternum starts below the neck. Now I’m no doctor, but that is about as gnarly as it gets.
Jimmy said in an Instagram post today, “I’m glad there is going to be a few weeks off after Detroit! I’m going to try my hardest to be as ready as possible for this weekend.” I guess the #84 is going to take some pain meds and twist the throttle again next Saturday night—broken sternum and all. When you own the team and have to put a bike on the track, you do what you have to do. Jimmy is currently in fourteenth in the 2016 Eastern Regional 250SX Championship after three rounds.
Check out Jimmy’s Instagram post below.
