Milko Potisek to replace Steven Frossard in Germany
Tuesday 23 July: Monster Energy Yamaha will tackle the Grand Prix of Germany of this weekend with 23 year old Milko Potisek stepping into the breach to replace the injured Steven Frossard.
Frenchman Potisek has been
steering a YZ450F for the 2B Yamaha team in 2013 and has been freed by his team
to compete at the Lausitzring for the twelve fixture of seventeen in the FIM
MX1-GP Motocross World Championship. Plus Joel Roelants is gaining form and speed.
Potisek earned a top ten
finish at Maggiora for the Italian round of the series last month and held the
red plate early in the year in the competitive French national MX1
championship; a contest in which he today remains less than thirty points from
first position. He is also a beach race specialist and was runner-up in the
prestigious Enduropale Le Touquet event in February.
Frossard is aiming to be
back on his factory YZ450F for the British Grand Prix next month after
successful surgery on his left foot last week. The Frenchman had pins inserted
in the two fractured metatarsals and the procedure enabled the bones to be
closely set.
Frossard, the 2011 MX1
world championship runner-up, suffered the breaks during the Grand Prix of
Finland last week and now must enter a period of convalescence and rehab to be
strong enough to remount his works YZ and close-out a disrupted and desperately
unlucky 2013 campaign.