2001 Elite Track Natz Crash - By popular demand...

It was one of the points race qualifiers races at 2001 Elite Natz in Blaine. Coming into turn 3 early in the race, a rider dropped down, without looking, right into Doug Beck. He hit Beck so hard, that he fell to the center of the track. I was at speed right behind Doug, and had no where to go. I went over the bars, hitting face first on the infield, and rolled to a stop. Amazingly, a photographer captured the latter part of the crash. Nothing broken, but my face was pretty torn up. Black eye, deep laceration below my nose, and a fat lower lip.

I briefly thought about giving up on bike racing, but it didn't last long. I raced the rest of 2001 on the track, but didn't return to pack racing there until 2008.