GEICO Honda rider Hunter Lawrence fresh back from his shoulder injury has torn his ACL, meniscus and suffered a mild sprain to the MCL during a practice session days prior to the Ironman National.
He wrote on Instagram, “When it rains it pours… been a very rough past month, two days ago whilst training long story short my foot hit the ground and twisted the wrong way. To say I’m gutted is an understatement. Bit of a rock bottom moment for the year. I don’t doubt I will be back. Nothing but another little bump in our road to success. Plan now is simple; rehabilitation and get back to 100%. Thankyou to all of my supporters, sponsors and team, appreciate you guys so much. Not how we wanted to end the year, but hey.. sh#t happens. I will be back.”
Lawrence has given no indication about recovery time but we estimate nine months for this type of injury. That rules him out of the FIM Motocross of Nations at Assen TT Circuit in the Netherlands on September the 28th and 29th.