Rockstar Energy Husqvarna rider RJ Hampshire will miss this weekend’s Seattle Supercross after fracturing his foot in a training crash at Baker’s Factory in Florida earlier this week. Team manager Nathan Ramsey said the bike’s handlebars “caught his foot in just the wrong way,” causing the break, and the team has not provided a recovery timetable.

The injury removes Hampshire from Round 6 of the AMA Supercross Championship and rules him out of upcoming rounds of the SMX World Championship; the team said he “will be sidelined for the next few rounds.” The incident interrupts his first full 450SX campaign on the Husqvarna FC 450 Factory Edition — Hampshire entered the week ranked 14th in points after four main events and owns a season-best ninth-place finish at Anaheim 2.

Rockstar Energy Husqvarna adjusted its Seattle lineup, naming Malcolm Stewart its lone 450 rider for the round and slotting Ryder DiFrancesco into 250 West. The team said it is monitoring Hampshire’s rehabilitation and will provide further updates. An earlier update had indicated Hampshire had recovered from the illness that forced him to miss Glendale and was confirmed to race, but subsequent statements from Ramsey and the team made clear the training crash and foot fracture rule him out of Seattle and forthcoming rounds.

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