South African Cameron Petersen unexpectedly missed this week’s MotoAmerica workforce take a look at at Buttonwillow Raceway Park resulting from his restoration from surgical procedure to right what is usually known as “arm pump.”
Arm pump, or compartment syndrome, is a medical situation frequent to motorbike racers by which the muscular tissues within the forearm develop till they prohibit blood stream to and from the hand, inflicting ache and/or numbness. That is flip leads to slower lap instances and inconsistency, and racers usually search surgical intervention to alleviate the signs.
In mid-February, Petersen had surgical procedure by the hands of monitor day fanatic and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas Bryan to alleviate arm pump signs in his proper forearm. The state of affairs, surgical procedure, and restoration, nonetheless, had been extra intensive than initially anticipated, inflicting Petersen to overlook this week’s take a look at, in keeping with Contemporary N Lean Progressive Insurance coverage Yamaha Staff Proprietor and Petersen’s Crew Chief Richard Stanboli.
“He has been scuffling with arm pump the final couple of exams,” Stanboli instructed Roadracingworld.com. “He simply got here to me and mentioned, ‘I’m going to get the surgical procedure. I checked with [the doctor] and it’s going to be a few week for restoration. So, I needs to be good for the following take a look at.’
“This was proper after the final take a look at [February 7-8], as a result of we had been speaking about his tempo and making an attempt to be extra constant. As a result of he can rip off a very quick lap, however he couldn’t repeat it constantly. He does on the races, however in testing I mentioned we have to have extra constant runs, and he mentioned, ‘I’m having arm pump points.’ I suppose it lastly bothered him sufficient to go get it checked out.
“It was alleged to be an arthroscopic factor and per week for restoration, actual fast and straightforward, after which it turned out they needed to do some extra work and it grew to become a two-week restoration. So, he ended up lacking that take a look at.”
With the Daytona 200 solely two weeks away (March 11th of September) and Petersen slated to be Stanboli’s solely rider within the occasion, will Petersen’s surgical procedure have an effect on their plans for that race?
“I don’t assume so,” mentioned Stanboli, “as a result of that needs to be, what, a month from the surgical procedure to Daytona. Plus, Daytona on a 600? He was effective [testing] on the 600 even with the arm pump. It was simply the Superbike.”
