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The Formula Xtreme race at Road America was red-flagged on the first lap after a starting-grid crash set-off when Steve Rapp stalled on the second row and Timothy Falcone, coming from the last row, hit Rapp’s bike.

AMA officials and race crew members dragged the damaged bikes off the racetrack and picked up pieces of shattered plastic from the racing surface. Track crews then arrived and spread oil-dry on gasoline and other fluids left on the track.

Rapp walked off the track under his own power; according to a track release, Falcone was transported to Valley View Hospital in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where he was treated and released.