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Team Embry’s Matt Lynn, 19, will miss the June 11-13 round of WERA National Challenge Series at California Speedway in Fontana, California.

According to a press release issued on Lynn’s behalf, he opted to have surgery to repair a broken finger and skip the California event while recovering from the operation.

“It would have been ideal to wait until the end of the season, but I can’t,” Lynn was quoted as saying in the release. “It made sense to me to miss the race that is furthest away. I thought about getting the surgery and still going to California, but I decided that it was too much of a risk.”