James Stewart To Sit Out Phoenix Supercross

Cycle News Staff | February 4, 2016

The Yoshimura Suzuki Team announced that neither James Stewart nor Blake Blaggett will compete in this Saturday’s Monster Energy AMA Supercross round in Phoenix, Arizona. As a result, the team rig will be staying home in California.

Stewart is still feeling the effects of the concussion that he suffered at Anaheim I. He withdrew from the main event last weekend at Oakland complaining of blurred vision.

Baggett, who had just returned from an injury at Oakland, suffered a bruised shoulder and will rest up this weekend.

“After retiring from the race with vision problems in Oakland, we encouraged James to undergo further testing and make sure he is 100 percent healthy before returning to racing,” said Mike Webb, team manager for Yoshimura Suzuki. “And Blake took a big hit to the same shoulder he just had surgery on this past weekend. Fortunately, he hasn’t re-broken the shoulder, however it is deeply bruised and at this point he only has limited range of motion. Blake is fairly confident that he should be ready to go by the following round in San Diego.”

The team says it will issue further updates when additional information is available.