Larrieu to miss first Grand Prix

Talented French teenager Loic Larrieu will miss the
first Grand Prix of the year at Sevlievo in Bulgaria on April 3rd-4th. The 19
year old suffered a fall at Malpensa for the third round of the Italian
Championship last weekend that left the Yamaha Monster Energy Ricci MX
rider with a fractured left collarbone.



Luckless Larrieu was coming back to speed and
fitness after his shoulder injury during the winter but his accident,
while attempting a downhill double at the steep circuit close to the
Italian airport in Milan, means that he now needs further recovery time
and will sit out the 2010 FIM MX2-GP World Championship opener on Easter
weekend.



Larrieu, who scored an impressive podium finish at
the 2009 French GP in what was his first world championship campaign,
had also been carrying a small fracture to his right big toe after a
blameless spill the previous week at Sommières for the first round of
the French national series.



Before this latest setback Larrieu had been steadily
developing the 2010 YZ250F for the Italian team whose MX2-GP efforts he
will spearhead this term for his second season as a Yamaha rider.