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Hard-luck privateer Jack Pfeifer underwent hernia surgery last Thursday, in Las Vegas.

Pfeifer finished fourth in the 2004 Daytona 200 but destroyed his GSX-R1000 in a crash in a WSMC race at Willow Springs shortly afterwards, and has struggled ever since with an underperforming CBR1000RR that he wasn’t able to get race kit parts for.

In an e-mail to Roadracingworld.com on Sunday, Pfeifer revealed “I had surgery on a hernia that I have appearently had my whole life done last Thursday, and I am hoping that I will be able to ride the last AMA two rounds but not sure yet if that’s going to be possible physically. Also I am in the process of getting the parts to try and get the Suzuki back together and may ride it if I can as I need to try and get a decent finish. It seems most sponsors only remember where you finished in your last race, and they vary their assistance programs accordingly. With the help I am getting right now I may as well get a J-O-B. at Taco Bell.”