Five-time MotoAmerica Cameron Beaubier has had a rough last two rounds of MotoAmerica racing.
On July 29 at Brainerd International Raceway, Beaubier highsided his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR during Race One and suffered a concussion that kept him from competing in Race Two.
Then during Race Two on Sunday, August 20 at Pittsburgh International Race Complex (a.k.a. PittRace), the former Moto2 World Championship rider suffered an even scarier crash.
After running off the track earlier in the race, Beaubier found himself trailing Ashton Yates in a multi-rider fight for eighth place. Armed with some new chassis parts, Yates and his Aftercare Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR were not so easy to get around.
Exiting the chicane on lap seven, the connector to Yates’ electric throttle came loose and his engine went to idle, or “limp mode,” and he suddenly decelerated without warning. Beaubier had no time to react and ran into the back of Yates’ motorcycle.
Beaubier came off his BMW and in the process was struck by the Disrupt Racing Suzuki of Hayden Gillim, who was immediately behind Beaubier at the time.
Beaubier went for a painful tumble down the track, and the race was stopped with a red flag.
Prior to the restart, fans watching on TV saw a conscious Beaubier being loaded into an ambulance with bandages wrapping his head. What fans and most people in the paddock didn’t see was Beaubier’s face covered in blood and the puddle of blood on the track immediately after the incident.
In fact, race officials were seen on TV cleaning something off the track, but instead of mechanical fluids from Beaubier’s motorcycle the fluids were “biological,” according to one official. They were cleaning up Beaubier’s blood.
The good news is that those lacerations were Beaubier’s worst injury, according to his crew chief Dave Weaver. The lacerations were stitched up at the track by MotoAmerica’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carl Price (who just happens to be a plastic surgeon), and Beaubier never went to the hospital. He did not participate in Race Three, however.
Beaubier did not respond to a text message from Roadracingworld.com, but he posted the photo below Sunday evening from the airport in Pittsburgh with the caption: “Tough run. Rider ok. We live to fight another day 💪🏽 Thanks to the medical staff on-site and everyone who reached out. Back to the home team ❤️”
