Chad Reed’s Amazing Crash and Rise
I was recently watching the Lucas Oil AMA Motorcross Championship on Saturday with series leader Chad Reed ahead of the pack, as he has done for the the past season. Suddenly there was a little hitch in his ride and a momentary loss of control at the foot of one of ramps. Hitting the ramp in full speed, Chad Reed was sent flying through the air 30 feet, losing grip of his motorcycle at the apex of his airborne mistake. Reed’s body crashed into the ground below in a brutal and seemly damaging manner, with the rest of the riders zipping past him, leaving him in a cloud of dust and agony. One couldn’t help but wonder if he was okay, if he was going to need to be carried out on a stretcher, another casualty to a fast, exciting, but ultimately dangerous sport.
But miraculously, Reed got up. After dusting himself off and restarting his bike, he was back in the race, unscathed by the superman flight he had just undertaken. He even managed to finish 14th overall in the race, which was high enough for him to maintain his overall top position on the leader board.
This particular crash reminded me of when Scott Russell crashed his bike back in 1995 during the Daytona 200.
Here, Russell wipes out in the middle of the race, gets back up and continues. Russell eventually won that race. Boy do these guys have a lot of guts.
