James Stewart Uptade from Washougal

Monster Energy Kawasaki's James Stewart crashed out of moto 2
at Washougal when he hit a rock and tumbled in a slow turn. The
bike fell on him and his left knee was painfully pinned under the
bike until someone could help him get it off.

Stewart wasn't 100% from his whiplash injury from Unadilla, but
visibly stronger compared to last weekend at Lakewood.

He won the first moto today, and was back in third as moto 2
started to wrap up. It didn't look like he was going to catch the
leader Grant Langston or Kevin "One More Lap" Windham.

Stewart was going into a slow, easy left turn on the lowest part
of the course (where the old start was) and he saw a rock rolling
into his line. He looked at the rock, and then ended up tipping
over with his left knee pinned and tweaked. It hurt a lot, but once
they did get him up he was able to stand, and he rode back on
the back of his bike instead of the Asterisk Mule.

Stewart wears CTi knee braces. Initial checks by the Asterisk
crew at the track were positive.

He wasn't going to do the X Games next week, and has an extra
week to get ready for Millville and his last chance to beat RC at
a national.

He is going to get it checked out tomorrow. It is not for sure if
he will be able to make Loretta's Tuesday for the MXoN team
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