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Jimmy Moore remains hospitalized in Minneapolis following surgery, while Craig Connell has been released from a local hospital and plans to fly to San Jose, California today to see Dr. Art Ting, who will operate on Connell’s broken upper arm Monday.

Moore crashed in turn one during Thursday practice at Brainerd International Raceway, slid about 230 yards over wet grass and hit a tree, rupturing his spleen, breaking an upper arm and fracturing a hip.

Connell crashed Friday during Formula Xtreme qualifying, breaking his arm.

“I just remember going into turn three and
thinking, ‘Oh, shit!’ said Connell. “Something had definitely gone wrong. From that point I just tried to work out where I was going to go and what I was going to do. I lost consciousness for about three minutes according to the medical personnel, but the CAT scan said everything was apparently OK. I broke my right humerus (upper arm) right in the middle with about 1 cm of displacement. The arm has been put back in place now. I’m flying out this afternoon to California. Dr. Arthur Ting is going to see me at my hotel tomorrow night and look at the X-rays, then he’s going to operate at 4:00 p.m. on Monday.”

Early reports said Connell lost an axel, but while team manager Anna Johnston said it was definitely a mechanical problem, it was unclear what went wrong. “It lost a lot of parts in the accident, and we’re piecing it together now. When we find out what went wrong, we’ll issue a press release.”



Jimmy Moore
c/o Morgan Broadhead
American Suzuki Motor Corp.
PO Box 1100
Brea, CA 92822-1100
e-mail [email protected]

Craig Connell
c/o Annandale Racing
PO Box 529
Cresson, TX 76035
e-mail [email protected].




Meanwhile, Ty Howard is hanging out with injury-hit Annandale Racing, rolling around the garage area on a mechanic’s chair. Howard broke his hip at Pikes Peak and underwent surgery in Colorado before flying home to Texas. Howard said he used crutches until about two weeks ago.