INJURED. Update: Austin Forkner fractures back in Arlington Crash. Jalek Swoll + Christian Craig 

Thought the same. Any neck back injury and the race was over so it wasn’t even like a split second decision

Yes, I was confused when I saw him standing 🤷🏻‍♂️

Agree....c collar and backboard always with this type of crash!

Yea I agree. The fact that there is that amount of incompetence medically for a supercross race is ridiculous. Could have done more damage letting him up.

@@korryjones7371 They should address that mistake. And, why is exposed concrete floors next to track? It’s a mess.

Who cares? 🤡 this is about Forkner and Swoll! you Tomac fans so far up his ass its pathetic! I sure hope Webb and Jett Lawrence crush him just because of 🤡 fans like you! You are making people hate old pie 🥧 face Colorado pot smoking liberal ass chokemac slomac!!!!!😂

NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!!!

If he didn’t have that crash he would have won without a doubt

Yeah it was! Nasty

Using a net would be a horrible idea. A net could possibly trap a bike to a rider and injure them more.

They could put in something inflatable along side during races. It makes sense to do that when the floor are concrete.

Could you imagine getting hucked at fifty and your arm getting caught in a net but your body wants to keep on a sailing?

Not sure any factory team will sign him next year with his string of bad luck

He's crashed out with seadon ending injuries 6 years straight.

@@marcellthompson6071 lmao teams would be fighting over Forkner. Definitely can’t deny his injury riddled past but he is probably the fastest guy on a 250 on either coast and is probably the one guy that can battle with Jett in the future…. You know, if he could stay healthy

@@windycityjohn400the past 3 years you can’t blame him, 2022 cross jumped by Jett, 2023 clipped on the start straight, and 2024 a track that was WAY to deteriorated. Watching the track even at the start of the 250 main it was roached, this isn’t the first time that this dirt has caused a weird crash. Austin has looked mature and extremely poised while riding this one is one that I feel was out of his hands

Why would he come back he’s proven over and over he can’t stay upright

ya thats wild in hindsight it most likely didnt affect anything i fractured L2 & L3. have to wait for swelling to go down then brace for a few months and i dont have any real lasting problems from it so hopefully he will be back by next year or maybe outdoors but doubt it.

Yeah, I didn’t like that at all, thought it was very negligent.

Yes it was bad if they had seen the slow mo they would have for sure

L6 huh? Do you have a lumbarized S1 because you only have 5 lumbar vertebrae.

@@Natedoc808 It's been 15 years, guess I burned that brain cell. It always amazes me how much I can forget, must be L4, L5. I remember to be released from therapy I had to be able to lift 40Lbs, and put it on a shelf. Once they released me for work I couldn't pick up my tool box, it weighed 100lbs. It was a rough year. I install cabinets for a living.

Are you sure it was concrete not plywood ? Not that plywood would be much better

​@@markme4yes that was pure concrete . No plywood they probably had plywood under the dirt itself but they skimped out on laying it down to the edges . Fucked up really

@@rogergauthier2769 Yes that's awful

Yes they need to address the concrete issue! I think plywood and dirt is the only thing they could do and still have access for equipment. But that sure beats the hell out of concrete! Hopefully they take note.

Someone got knocked out a couple races ago on the 250 start straight by hitting concrete too. Though, he hit a wall that wasn't padded, not the ground. Still, I think bare concrete, whether wall or ground, should be covered with something. This wouldn't happen outdoors.

Yeah.. No Depth perception without two points of reference. Explains why he thought he was in the right spot and let it rip for the triple.

Absolutely correct on that.

100% I hated wearing contacts while riding. Austin really needs to get LASIK or PRK surgery and get that perfect vision. No excuse not to at this level of racing. Only around 5k usually and LASIK has a super quick recovery time.

He and Tomac looked amazing in the heat races! I was looking forward to seeing that come through in the mains.

The concrete is criminal

@@williamshaneblyth With all the dirt they have to bring in for the track, putting mulch over the concrete wouldn't be much more work! And would seriously reduce the damage done by landing off the track.

There’s been concrete along Supercross tracks for many decades. It’s just unusual when somebody flies that far off the side of the track. Cooper Webb hit the cement three or four years ago pretty hard.

​@@500stickfacts. They hate the mud, they hate the dry. They hate things not even on the track. No pleasing clowns. Had Forkner hit the face of the next jump, they'd hate jumps

contacts offer a much wider field of vision. they're also more economical (I went through 5-6 pairs of goggles on a race day, usually running 2 classes). you really don't want to recondition your goggles in the middle of a race day. to each his own. but I see pros and cons for both. personally, having contacts come out during a ride was never an issue unless something bad already happened (like I banged my head on the bars or something similarly violent).

Exactly. Dude really needs to just get LASIK or PRK eye surgery. It's well worth it, contacts were miserable for me.

Yeah it would be near impossible to race supercross at that speed if one had fell out midway through the race. So for 3 laps let's say he rode with only 1 in and yet, he never dropped off his pace. I find that very hard to believe if i'm honest. If anything I'd say that contact come out when he hit that concrete and it's a slight excuse. Could be wrong. He got pressured and forced into a big mistake trying to go faster on a rough track and pull back away from Deegan.

@@Carpfishing4400 well he was dropping off the pace for a couple laps before the crash and Deegs was catching up. Obviously he proved he was consistently faster than Deegs in the heat race so I don't think it was a pressure thing, I think the contact folding actually happened and Austin is so damn talented he was able to hang on for a few laps until a costly mistake. I wish he would've just slowed down, taken the L and explained what happened with the contact. So bummed for him and that we don't get to see more Forkner Deegan battles.

@@senkosirius9730 in actual fact. Of the 16 laps that Forkner completed. Him and Deegan was actually split 8 each for who had done the faster lap time in the main event. But from lap 9 til lap 14 Deegans lap was faster. 15 and 16 Forkner had the faster lap times so yes he was clearly trying to push and get away. We all know what happened on lap 17. So laptimes fully show the contact had nothing to do with it! It was him trying to drop his lap times on a rough track that wouldn't allow it.

@@Carpfishing4400 buddy do you even wear contacts? If you don't, frankly shut the fk up because you're talking to someone who did for over half his life and then got PRK surgery and got 20/15 vision...so Ive experienced racing in both situations. You have no clue the level of talent/muscle memory Forkner has on the bike and when you're used to something being in your eye all the time, you can push through if it gets dirty or folds up but only for so long because it eventually becomes a mental thing where thats all you can think about and then boom, you make a mistake that you likely wouldn't have made. You think the crash made it fall out? Lol....that is not how contacts work. Hitting the ground would not cause that...the contact drying out or getting dirty, then blinking would cause it to fold and once it folds it eventually falls out. I get youre a Deegan meat rider but don't speak on things you know nothing about. Deegs first win was gifted. FACT. And I'm a fan of both guys tbh but Deegan fanboys are really getting fking annoying...

All that red face paint you wear is much worse for your health 🤡

I broke my back in 2 places in 2022... L2 and L3 Transverse process and it was inoperable... Also snapped my clavicle in half and got 3 plates and 13 screws, broke my 2nd and 7th ribs on my right side, and tore an artery in the back of my neck... Only had surgery on my clavicle and my back still ****'s with me every day that in ends in "y" sadly... You wouldn't know unless I told you, but I've accepted that I'll never be like I used too! Truly hoping Austin has better luck!

Shutup.

@@johnnoe2507 😂

are you calling the body armor a thin layer of fabric? or are referring to the jersey? I agree that something similar to what road racers wear would probably be more appropriate. not sure about the feasibility of operating a mx bike with those leathers on though. ("leathers" used loosely to imply all the protective gear)

@@daneg I have a set of MSR shoulder pads with chest & back protector. I know old fart woods riders that do two hr xc races in pads, they do it just fine. One of these days someone's gonna get a footpeg in the spine...ouch.

The riders can wear whatever they want lol

the problem has always been track maintenance. the specific obstacles are secondary. Phil Nicoletti hit the nail on the head when he criticized A1 (paraphrase) "i sat on the start gate and watched them touch up this jump and that rut, but they left the kicker on the lip of the wall jump that everyone was tripping on. wtf?" there just needs to be more down time between the mains for track maintenance, and they have to target high danger areas. like flattening out the back of that table or removing the lip. tbf, i think you needed the "lip" to go "on off" in arlington rather than the favored "triple over." (think i phrased that right?)