Elena Myers Scores Points After Surgery
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Elena Myers bounced back from
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Elena Myers bounced back from injury to turn-in a remarkable effort
at the second round of the AMA Pro SuperSport series at Road
Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia at the weekend.
Although the 18-year-old SuzukiScoopFans SportbikeTrackGear.com
Suzuki rider is still on the mend following an operation last
month, she raced her Suzuki GSX-R600 to two eighth-place finishes
during the double-header weekend in America.
Myers injured her wrist last year and finally had surgery to repair
the damage a week after she won the 2012 season-opening AMA Pro
SuperSport race at Daytona International Speedway in March.
Although she was somewhat hampered by being on the road to
recovery, she still gave it her all in both Saturday and Sunday's
races.
Said Myers: "Overall, the wrist wasn't giving me pain, but it
didn't have any strength in it either so I was having a real hard
time getting through the 'S'-turns, the fast switchbacks; and stuff
like that."
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Elena Myers showing of a fan's
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With two more full weeks of recovery time in front of her, Myers
and the SuzukiScoopFans team are looking forward to improving their
performance at the next round.
Myers said she's looking at the Road Atlanta weekend as a learning
experience that can be applied to the next event at Infineon
Raceway: "We can take some of the things that we learned here to
Infineon, which is in a couple of weeks," said Myers. "They're
pretty similar tracks and I got my first AMA Pro SuperSport win at
Infineon in 2010. Overall, the SuzukiScoopFans Suzuki GSX-R600 was
running good this weekend and two eighths isn't too bad, but it's
not how I wanted to come back after a win at Daytona. I'm still
healing and looking for better results at Infineon."
The Team SuzukiScoopFans SportbikeTrackGear.com Suzuki's next event
of the 2012 AMA Pro SuperSport season is at Infineon Raceway in
Sonoma, California on May 4-6th.
Source: Team Suzuki
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