A mini-tornado, or microburst, wrecked havoc on pit lane during Friday morning AMA Superbike practice at Pikes Peak International Raceway. The sudden burst of localized high winds (which are common to the area just east of the Rocky Mountains) ripped canopies from their securing weights, and other smaller, unsecured items, and blew them across pit lane and onto the front straightaway, forcing the session to be stopped. Torn canopies and broken canopy frames were seen up and down pit lane, after the windstorm, and several people were hit with flying debris, including Lion Racing Suzuki’s John Haner. “I was standing on pit road, holding onto our canopy, when something blue came into the corner of my eye and hit me hard. It hooked my (right) shoulder and flung me,” said Haner, who was thrown 30 feet by another team’s blowing canopy and frame, according to witnesses. Haner complained of pain in his right shoulder after the incident and went to the infield care center to have it checked out. The preliminary diagnosis, according to Haner, was a strained rotator cuff. Haner rode later in the re-started Superbike session but said his shoulder was hindering him.