SPEED TV’s Greg White crashed Thursday morning during a track day session at Miller Motorsports Park and was transported to a local hospital complaining of pain in the chest and abdominal area. He was subsequently flown via medevac helicopter to the trauma unit at the University of Utah medical center in Salt Lake City where he was diagnosed with cracked ribs and a partially collapsed lung, with air trapped between the lung and his rib cage; a tube was inserted in his chest last night to reinflate the lung. White crashed in Turn 11, a.k.a. Tooele Turn, while being passed by Vesrah Suzuki’s Tray Batey. “Tray Batey cleaned me out,” said White via cell phone from his hospital bed. “He took out my front wheel, I didn’t even have time to react. It was in the slow group! When I hit the deck I was having trouble breathing so they transported me to a local hospital where they had a helicopter waiting.” White races a Millnec Media Honda CBR600RR in the WERA National Endurance Series when not handling pit-lane reporting at AMA Superbike National races. “I just have some soreness and should be ready to go for next week,” White said when asked about the TV coverage of next weekend’s AMA National at Miller Motorsports Park. “I should get out of the hospital today.” Update: Reached by cell phone at Miller Motorsports Park, Batey said: “I really regret the situation. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him. I was on the 4-wheeler and went over to check on him when they brought him in the ambulance, it sucks. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t have even been around Greg. That was a slower practice group and there weren’t many people there at the track so people were kind of coming and going in both groups. I went out in the slower group on the SV1000, I thought I wouldn’t be in anybody’s way out there on that. The track was pretty empty. “After about two or three laps I saw Greg up ahead on his 600 and he was riding pretty well and it took me a while to catch up to him. I got a pretty good run so I went around the outside of Greg in a really fast third-gear sweeper, and then Greg hits the gas and just smokes past me to beat me into the next corner. So I thought, we must be racing. “Then my ego took over. I passed him, he passed me back, so I went OK. We went into the next corner, he went to slow down on the brakes so I went to the outside, and dove back in, I did turn across his front wheel and I didn’t give him much space, but I didn’t feel any contact. “I had caught him, passed him, he hit the throttle and passed me back. Then he was on my radar. But I have more experience than he has and I should known better. I really feel bad. If nobody had crashed it would have been funny, you passed me, I sawed you off, but he got hurt and I feel terrible.”