The third round of the AMA Supercross series was not the best one so far for team Bud Racing Monster Energy Kawasaki, who didn’t got the expected results. Maxime Desprey crashed heavily during his qualifying race in Anaheim II, and stopped his US experience as he broke his femur in this crash.
Week after week and race after race, we saw that Maxime was improving a lot these past weeks, thanks to the hard work alongside David Vuillemin! Second in the first practice session of his group Maxime couldn’t improve his lap time in the next session due to a small mistake and crash, but qualified easily for the night program. He didn’t got the best gate for his qualifying race but did a superb start putting him in second place at first corner but went too much outside and lost many places, he was eleventh after the first lap; with only six laps and the first nine riders qualified for the main event you have to give all but unfortunately Maxime didn’t finished the fourth lap as he crashed badly in the whoops section. Suffering from a broken femur, he will need a couple of months to recover and come back on the European tracks.
We want to thanks warmly Kawasaki USA and Monster energy for their confidence and support but also all the people who followed our US experience from France, Europe and anywhere else through the 20 videos episodes made by DV934.
Maxime Desprey: “This American experience ends unfortunately too early for me, with this broken femur after my big crash in the whoops. It’s difficult to accept it, as we worked so hard during the past weeks and i was feeling a real progression. Surgery was OK, they put a pin in my bone and I will stay a few more days at the hospital before joining the mechanics and my teammate in Lake Elsinore at team’s base. I want to thanks team Bud Racing, Stephan who stay with me at the hospital, David my trainer, my mechanic Jeremy, all my friends, my family, my girl friend Camille who was on the phone all night long and all the people who sent nice messages on the social medias.”
David Vuillemin: “Difficult to explain my feeling since Max got injured. It’s a massive blow and my stomach is knotted since I saw him down on the track, in the ambulance and at the hospital….”
Stephane Dasse : « we are really disappointed to stop the US SX experience so early, our 2 young riders Darian Sanayei & Maxime Desprey did very big efforts and a superb job with David Vuillemin to progress every week since we are in the USA, Maxime’s injury is really bad for him and us but it’s Motocross and we know that this sport is always a challenge and we can’t change anything now. We must speak with our sponsors during the day but we may be forced to go back to Europe earlier to prepare the European MX championships who will start end of march. It’s so difficult to find a rider who is able to race SX at this US level, specially for us who want to give the chance to young riders or new talents in this championship. However, we will come back even stronger in 2017”.
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- Crédit photos: Jeff Kardas
