Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. Former motocross star Rich Thorwaldson, 58, who suffered severe brain trauma in a crash during an AFM road race at Infineon Raceway May 30, remains in a “deep coma” and “is showing no signs of improvement,” according to a website set up by his family, www.richardthorwaldson.com. A June 14 posting by Lee Felch on the website bulletin board states that Thorwaldson was recently transferred from John Muir Medical Center, near San Francisco, California, to Saint Mary’s hospital, near Thorwaldson’s home in Reno, Nevada. Felch reported that plans are being made for Thorwaldson to return to his home, where he will receive hospice care. News is better regarding first-year Expert James Chance, 18, who crashed his 2004 GSX-R600 during a WERA C Superbike race June 6 at Roebling Road Raceway, near Savannah, Georgia. According to Chance’s father, Jim Chance, the young man lost his front brake lever on the front straightaway due to contact with another rider, did not realize he lost the brake lever until he got to his braking marker at Turn One, ran straight off the track and impacted an earthen barrier at a high rate of speed. According to his father, Chance was transported to Memorial Hospital in Savannah with two collapsed lungs, a fractured C2 vertebra and a severe concussion. He was placed into a drug-induced coma, and fully woke up on June 15. “He has been off life support and breathing on his own since 8:00 p.m. Monday night, so now they are trying to find a regular room for him so he can leave ICU (Intensive Care Unit),” Jim Chance told Roadracingworld.com Wednesday. “He’s still foggy. It was a pretty nasty head injury, but he’s doing good. “Now they are going to concentrate on his fractured C2, but they haven’t found any spinal cord or arterial damage and he can wiggle all of his fingers and toes. So that’s good. “Right now all of the information from his doctors is good. We don’t know how long his recovery is going to be. It’s up to him, but so far he has been on top of all their best-case predictions.”