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Another racer gets injured off the track. First it was MotoGP’s Alex Hofmann busting up his wrist in a parade on his Kawi. Now AMA takes a loss with Jamie Hacking dislocating both elbows in a bicycle accident. (We can’t forget Kellen Winslow jr. even though he’s not a racer of any type, but a pro-athlete nonetheless). Check it…

Hacking Injures Elbows In Bicycle Crash, Will Miss Road America Race
May 30, 2005

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Yamaha/Graves Yamaha rider Jamie Hacking will miss the AMA round June 3-5 at Road America after injuring both of his elbows in a bicycle crash while training Saturday, May 28 near Fort Collins, Colorado.

In a telephone call to Roadracingworld.com, Hacking’s wife Rachel said that Jamie Hacking was riding bicycles with Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies. Hacking was following Spies at a relatively high speed. Spies swerved to avoid an object in the road, but Hacking was unable to miss the object and was sent over the bars of his bicycle. Hacking landed with his hands outstretched and dislocated both elbows upon impact.

Spies called Rachel Hacking, who came to the scene and transported Jamie Hacking to a local hospital. Hacking was able to pop his right elbow back into place at the crash site, but the left elbow was more severely displaced and had to be relocated by emergency room physicians. At the hospital, it was also found that Hacking suffered small fractures to bones in both forearms, near the elbow.

“He’s pretty devastated. He’s in a lot of pain,” said Rachel Hacking.

Amazingly, famed orthopedic surgeon Dr. Arthur Ting was in Denver, Colorado over the weekend and was able to examine Hacking immediately. According to Rachel Hacking, Dr. Ting said Hacking will have to undergo surgery to set the displaced bone fragment in his left elbow, and an MRI will have to be done to see the full extent of the damage to Hacking’s ligaments and tendons.

Hacking is scheduled to fly from Colorado to California Tuesday and undergo the MRI, followed by surgery at Dr. Ting’s Fremont, California offices.

Dr. Ting has given Hacking an approximate recovery time of three to six weeks, ruling him out of the AMA races at Road America but making a return at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca round July 8-10 possible.

“Luckily, we have that break after Road America and before Laguna,” said Rachel Hacking.

While I really don’t pay much attention to AMA these days since the 4-strokes entered MotoGP, I hope Hacking gets a full recovery as soon as possible. I’m making the trek to Laguna Seca for MotoGP in July and he certainly makes that series more exciting. And oh yeah, quite the tough sum-bitch to pop back into place an elbow on-scene…it seems that he did it himself…with the other arm…that was out of place too much to pop back in…that will require surgery to fix…yikes.