Billy Laninovich

Another Injury

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to let you guys know what’s kind of going on with me now. I was at Perris Raceway in Southern California to do a little photo shoot for Shift Racing. There was about 20 minutes left for practice then we had are own photo shoot after. I wanted to get a little riding time in before the shoot. Half a lap in I cased this triple and it threw me over the bars and I was knocked out for about a minute. My mechanic Preston and Jason Lawrence got to me as I was coming too. I didn’t remember anything for about 45 minutes after the crash.

I landed pretty hard on my back. I got X-Rays and a Cat-scan, I have no broken bones but my back swelled up as you can see in the photo and bruised my whole back. I flew to Dr. Tings last Friday; it was about 4 weeks after the crash. He drained almost a quart of blood out of my back. He said I was a pretty lucky guy, that I only had some torn muscles.

I was looking forward to racing the 450 for KTM/MDK in Supercross, but I think those hopes are over. The Doc said I have about 3 weeks before i can ride, and i will be very surprised if I'm back riding by then. It's going to take a lot of hard rehab to get my back to were it was before. I'm not going to push it and come back to soon, I just don’t want to hurt it anymore then it is. I'm looking forward to racing the 450 outdoors; I'm trying my best to be able to make it to Glen Helen! I'll let you know how everything is coming along soon. Take care