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Jeff Wood was hurt Saturday at a dirt track, two weeks before the Formula USA race at Loudon, New Hampshire’s New Hampshire International Speedway.

NHIS is Wood’s home track. Wood won the Sport Bike race at Daytona, in the rain, and was a leading contender for both the F-USA Sport Bike Championship on pavement and the F-USA Grand National Championship, which combines road race and dirt track events.

An e-mail from his father Jerry gives the details:

“I got a call from Jeff at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning, he was in a hospital in New Hampshire with a compound shattered collarbone and broken ribs after hitting unprotected Armco barrier when his throttle stuck during a flatrack race in
Canaan, New Hampshire. Jeff wanted to contend the Formula USA Grand National Championship and was getting some seat time at the local 1/3-mile track. The track was banked and the Armco was not visible until he rode over the outside edge.

“Jeff has done well at short track and ice racing and was looking forward to the new series.”