RJ Hampshire Sidelined For Budds Creek Nationwide

The next press launch is from Husqvarna:

Rockstar Vitality Husqvarna Manufacturing facility Racing rider RJ Hampshire will sit out this weekend’s penultimate spherical of the 2023 AMA Professional Motocross Championship at Budds Creek whereas he continues to get well from his second moto crash at Unadilla.

The 27-year-old went down closely at first of Moto 2 final Saturday afternoon and was unable to remount and full the race.

Because of this, the choice has been made for Hampshire to stay on the sidelines for Budds Creek this weekend, with the tenth spherical of the season scheduled for August 19. A call will likely be made subsequent week on whether or not he will likely be match to return for Ironman Raceway’s ultimate spherical of the out of doors season.

Hampshire at the moment sits sixth within the 250MX standings onboard his FC 250 Rockstar Version, solely two factors outdoors of the highest 5, and can also be positioned third within the mixed SuperMotocross World Championship (SMX) 250 Class factors. 

Motocross

Place	Rider	Hometown	Factors
1	Hunter Lawrence	Landsborough, Australia	419
2	Justin Cooper	Chilly Spring Harbor, NY	399
3	Jo Shimoda	Suzuka, Japan	393
4	Haiden Deegan	Temecula, CA	371
5	Levi Kitchen	Washougal, WA	322
6	Tom Vialle	Avignon, France	302
7	Max Vohland	Sacramento, CA	295
8	R.J. Hampshire	Hudson, FL	288
9	Jalek Swoll	Belleview, FL	221
10	Ryder DiFrancesco	Bakersfield, CA	208

Full Standings

The #24 have to be fairly banged up to be able to not be lining up this weekend. Hampshire claimed two of his profession total Professional Motocross wins at Budds Creek Motocross Park (his maiden total win in 2018 with 2-1 finishes and final yr in 2022 with 1-2 finishes). He posted the next on Instagram:

“No simple method to put it, I’ll be sitting out this weekend! Extremely bummed to be lacking my favourite race however will concentrate on my well being and getting again to the races quickly.”