Motocross: Mike Alessi Hurt in Ugly Crash

I HAVE THREE KIDS RACING MOTOCROSS. AGES 13, 11, AND 5. TWO HAVE HAD MINOR INJURIES. WE LOVE THIS SPORT AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO ANYONE THAT HITS THE GROUND HURT OR NOT. HE IS IN MY PRAYERS. GOD BLESS YOU IN YOUR RECOVERY.

Amen brother/sister. I've been to T-ball games that had more EMS support. What about the bystanders? No actual ambulance at a highspeed motocros race? Hmmm. Can you smell the lawsuit?

I have a son who also competes in motorcross and I can't believe the flagmen don't get to the hurt rider more quickly.
This is a huge problem at most of the races and there needs to be more qualified people out there that is paying better attention. I noticed the guy with the yellow flag just stands there and never puts up the caution flag so the other riders can see it. What's up with that? Do something would ya!!

To Odie and Mark:
You two obviously have no idea about the sport and shouldn't even be on here talking. If it was at a local track and a normal race event, everyone would be on the track seeing if he's ok. It is against the rules for any unauthorized persons to enter the track area on a professional race event. They had to red flag the race and call for a restart because they could not get mike off the track in time. A professional race hasn't been red flagged in a long time.
And for the casual reactions by the 'red necks'... first, I would be willing to bet that majority of the people there don't even come close to fitting in that stereotype, it's not NASCAR my friend (sorry). And second, people are in shock and awe because there hasn't been a crash this horrific in professional motocross in a long time.
So may god forgive you assholes for not anticipating your first reactions, and for not wishing Mike well.

My prayers are with you Mike Alessi, I saw your interview on SPEED ch. and I'm glad to see that you are ok.

I would like to ask people that read this to help me reach out to Mike Alessi and ask him to please start wearing a neck brace such as the leading one made by Alpinestars and the Leatte Brace company.

Having been a racer in offroad competitions for over 20 years it's a little distrubing to see some of the negative postings here which refer to a lack of medical assistance. To set the record straight, at this level of competition there is a special medical team that goes by the name of the Asterisk Medical Mobile Center http://asterisksuperpass.com/html/ammc.html#history
They provide immediate help to injured riders with a staff of doctors, nurses and medical assistants. They bring to the races every week a mobile, state of the art, emergency medical center. At the amatuer level of all AMA sponsored events, no racing can start or continue unless a staffed ambulance is onsite. I do agree that there should be better trained flagmen. Ones who respond with a bit more knowledge and assistance. Racing motocross is a 100% injury rate sport, if you race long enough you are bound to get hurt. Having been an injured rider on more than one occasion, I am glad that I was in an AMA sanctioned event that provided me with almost immediate care. I wish I had these guys sitting at my practice track everytime I ride because it's about a half hour trip to a hospital where I live becasue when you are injured those mintues tick by painfully. I guess thats why motocross racing isnt for everybody.

It wasn't Ferry, It was Ricky Renner #75. He was the last rider to land on MIke