http://www.fullnoise.com.au/ I'm not liking this but it says he is totally healed .... 11/27 & 12/4 seem like a long way off ... He must not be doing much riding yet ... American supercross rider, Ryan Villopoto, has withdrawn from the Sydney and Brisbane Monster Energy Super X events due to length of recovery time from leg injuries. His US management confirmed with his race team, doctors and personal trainer that though his broken tibia and fibula are fully healed his lack of conditioning means he is not fit to race in the two Australian events on Saturday November 27 and Saturday December 4. “I am really disappointed that I can no longer come to Australia to race in front of all of the supercross fans there and I apologise to any I have let down,” said Villopoto. “If I was fit to race I would be there in a heartbeat because I was genuinely so excited about checking out the country and competing there.” Managing Director of Global Action Sports, Michael Porra, said the news highlighted is an unfortunate aspect of the tough sport of supercross, which takes such a physical toll on riders, but emphasised that Sydney and Brisbane fans are in for a real treat this year with the confirmation of more big name riders completing a lineup, which boasts the most depth in international talent that Australia has ever seen. “We know that some fans will be disappointed by this news, but we have worked around the clock to secure a huge lineup of international riders to ensure fans at the Sydney and Brisbane Super X events are treated to the best and most competitive racing ever seen in Australia,” said Porra. GAS have confirmed that Ben Townley, who is in for the two NZ rounds, will now ride the final two rounds as well along with Valli Motorsports Yamaha’s Ivan Tedesco. Josh Hansen and Mike Allesi will do the whole season Chad Reed has not officially confirmed if he will be doing the whole series as yet.
Dude, this is the Australian series. No offense to my mates, but it really doesn't say anything about RV. The spoiled rotten millionaire probably just wants to be home.
Right... this is the change they made in their season to allow them to compete there and then come to the usa later .... I think ... RV apologized for something here .... It seems a little far fetched to think he can't be ready to ride in DEC ... but you never know ... This years SX ain't gonna be a push over for anyone ... He had better be riding if he expects to get a whiff of the podium ...
Love Villopoto. If he and his team feel it is not right for him to go who am I to question his reasons. It is what it is and obviously there is a reasons he is not going. I have always viewed him as a guy who likes to get in there and make it happen so I'm guessing there is a real reason. Top level racing demands 100% and if your not 100% you might just be rolling the dice on getting hurt again.
If you remember before the season started last year, he was gonna win the mx season and compete well in the sx ...RD was a wild card at best .. Maybe RV has some juice left .. he sat and watched RD get all the PUB that he should have gotten all the way to MXdN ... He'll have ~1 more run at the titles I think .... Update: He is riding apparently ... http://www.vitalmx.com/videos/member/Ryan-Villopoto-Back-In-Action,1756/GuyB,64
villi and stewart ? Would really have enjoyed seeing villi riding sx over here. Kdubs been flown over among others but he,s a great rider so will look forward to watching his skills. Dont ya hate it when you get a last minute invite to a party, makes you feel special. Bit of back ground for all our overseas posters, a little while back we here in Australia held an event every couple of years called the oceania cup in a place called barrabool in victoria, its def one our countries best mx tracks. We had josh copins coming over at the top of his game and chad reed was to race it as well. It was heavily promoted using reeds name and it attracted a massive crowd in turn raising much needed money to keep the track going. Reed pulled out at the eleventh hour with a mystery broken foot he acquired during a road cycling accident apparently. He apologised to fans. The feeling amongst the riders over here was that Coppins would have been too strong for him anyway, as an mx specialist whilst reeds forte was supercross. Last year in our superx series james stewart was heavily promoted and then you guessed it, eleventh hour as venue had all but sold out, he pulls the pin apologising to fans. Now this year eleventh hour again (no sooner) villipoto pulls out and you guessed it apologises to fans. I'm just sayin ! ! Pattern forming or are mx riders becoming primadonna's ? By the way with reeds foot incident back then shortly after at press conference for anaheim 1 he was asked how his preparation was for the ama sx that coming season to which he replied "really good spent time with fam all good". Must have forgotten about his Broken foot ??? Cheers.
I'd guess these 18-22(?) yr old riders are just employees \ pawns and don't pull alot of strings ... thats the job of the grown-ups ... Its a $ world ... protect UR self @ all times ... @ all places ...
