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MXGP Latvia: Waters return ends in broken collarbone

Todd Waters’ first world championship race since 2015 ended in the medical centre at today’s MXGP of Latvia when the 27-year-old over-jumped while running eighth in the qualification race and broke his collarbone.

The Aussie had been drafted into Team HRC alongside Tim Gajser as a fill-in rider for Brian Bogers but his return to the FIM Motocross World Championship lasted just eight laps at Kegums.

“Well there is not much to say, really,” he said. “It was my first day back in MXGP and obviously I was a bit nervous but in the race I managed to get all the way up to the top 10 and had a good pace. I was in eighth place and closing in on Jeremy Seewer but then I jumped a bit too long on the uphill double, landed straight into the braking bump and got thrown over the handlebar.

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“Obviously I’m devastated – this is surely not the way I wanted my MXGP return to be – but that’s racing. All we can do now is to do whatever is needed to be back on track as soon as possible. I want to thank the team for their outstanding work as I was really enjoying riding the bike this afternoon.”

Gajser also fell in the closing stages of the race, dropping back from fourth to seventh.

“I’m quite happy with how today went, even despite the crash,” said the Slovenian. “I had a lot of fun on the track in free and timed practice. I had a decent start to the qualifying race although I went down to ninth after being passed by a couple of rivals. I slowly came back and managed to get past quite a few riders, then with two laps to go I just made a small mistake and lost the front.

“Seventh is not a bad finish for tomorrow, I feel great on the bike and had a great pace throughout the whole moto so I’m very confident ahead of tomorrow.”

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