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Former 500cc Grand Prix World Champion Kevin Schwantz was back in action in the inaugural AMA Red Bull Supermoto event at Laguna Seca, racing his Yoshimura Suzuki DR-Z400 for the first time since breaking his left hand when he crashed in a Super TT race at Fontana, California in April.

Asked if his left hand was 100 percent, Schwantz said, “It hasn’t been 100 percent for 15 years.”

Schwantz did not make the AMA Supermoto main event at Laguna Seca; he crashed in his heat race (and was credited with getting 16th while the top five transferred) and was taken out and eventually finished fifth in his semi (while the top two transferred).