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Rider Penalized for Actions at Salt Lake City Round of the 2009 AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship

PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- Officials with AMA Racing and the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) have penalized Supercross-licensed rider Kyle Chisholm for his on-track actions at the Salt Lake City round of the 2009 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship.

In on-track altercations between himself and fellow Supercross competitor Chad Reed, Chisholm violated Appendix A2.3, paragraph "i," of the AMA Supercross an FIM World Championship rulebook, which prohibits "engaging in any unfair practice, misbehavior, or action detrimental to the sport of motorcycling in general..." Chisholm also violated Appendix A.2.3 paragraph "o" which prohibits "failing to immediately respect and comply with the operational or warning flags/lights or other signals from Racing officials" when he remained on track after being shown the black flag.

In consideration of these violations of the AMA Supercross an FIM World Championship rulebook, the following penalties were assessed:

• Disqualification from the Salt Lake City round.
• Suspension from all forms of AMA- and/or FIM-sanctioned competition until May 3, 2009.
• $5,000 fine.

2 comments

  • ken10b

    4/29/2009 7:23 PM

    Your on glue dude. He let Bubba by then saw reed and gassed over the jump They were neck and neck over the jump not because he was over his head. He was not going to let Chad by without a battle I watched it over and over on tivo there is no doubt that it was not a mistake. You were right tho Chad should not have opened his mouth like that. But what comes around goes around, Probably would have been a better thing to say. We need more racing like that, instead of one guy checking out everytime. This was the best battle all year it sucked it had to end like that.

  • cr318

    4/28/2009 11:14 PM

    This is the lamest penalty I have seen from the AMA or FIM. If you ride a motorcycle at all you can clearly see in the replay that Chism was spotting his line and not lining up to punt Reed. Take a look at how Lawrence punted hepler in jacksonville. It's very methodical and calculated move and difficult to pull off cleanly w/o going down. Chism was just clearly over his head in that corner with poor track conditions. Also if you were to look at his heat race, earlier in the evening, he took the exact same line when James lapped him. There was nothing malicious about it, maybe reed just needs to step up to the pace of stewart. IMO Reed should be paying homage to Chism for giving him an excuss as to why he lost the title. What I believe is most detrimental to the sport of motocross is Chad Reed running his mouth on the podium and threatening another riders safety. Let's apply the same rules across the board... we race to leave what we have on the track!