Kullas to sit out remaining MX2-GP events with hand injury

Monster Energy Yamaha’s Harri Kullas will miss his first FIM Motocross
World Championship races in almost two years of competition after an
accident competing in the Finnish National MX series last weekend left
the youngster with two broken bones in his left hand.



The YZ250F racer is currently eighth in the
standings after a consistent season in which he has taken points in
every moto of the twenty-six run so far. The accident happened when
another rider collided with the determined Finn. X-rays have been sent
to eminent Belgian surgeon Dr Claes for assessment tomorrow (Thursday)
but an expected recovery period of five weeks has been provisionally
ascribed. It means Kullas will miss this weekend’s Grand Prix of Europe
at Gaildorf in Germany and then the fifteenth and final meeting next
week at Fermo in Italy. Sadly for his country, the nineteen year old
will also have to withdraw from the Motocross of Nations in France on
September 18th.