Wrist Injury to Sideline Marvin Musquin Indefinitely

The following press launch is from KTM:

MURRIETA, Calif. – Pink Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Marvin Musquin has been sidelined indefinitely for the AMA Supercross Championship portion of the 2023 SMX World Championship as he proceeds to get well from a wrist personal injury sustained in January.

Upon returning to his house country of France previously this month for even more medical evaluations, Musquin’s surgeon established that the 33-year-previous has a broken scaphoid bone in his left wrist. As a consequence and looking at a earlier injuries, it has been made a decision that enabling his wrist time to mend naturally with out rushing the course of action is the excellent process of recovery.

“It’s normally disappointing to have one of our riders get injured so early on in the year, primarily given the caliber of Marvin and the way he was using coming into the season. But accidents occur and the very last factor we want is for him to rush the therapeutic system and return to racing way too soon. We respect his needs to seek further session with his doctors in France and he is now on the path to earning a full recovery.”

After finishing fourth in the 450SX standings last year, Musquin started 2023 strongly at Anaheim 1 by qualifying in 3rd situation driving the KTM 450 SX-F Factory Edition, right before ending twelfth in the Primary Occasion. He was regrettably hurt even though education right before San Diego’s second round, in what marks his 12th year jointly with Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing in the U.S.