A wrist injury on Saturday, during Moto 1 of the Thunder Valley Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross stop in Lakewood, Colorado, has forced Yoshimura Suzuki rider James Stewart out of the race.

According to the information shared on Stewart's website, the injured wrist was "hurting pretty good," as Stewart himself put it, and some X-rays needed to be done, for which Stewart would have to go back.

As per Stewart's website, the wrist injury was a result of a crash which took place soon after Stewart had laid down the fastest qualifying lap time in practice and commenced in tenth.

He moved right to the front of the pack within a few laps of the race, and had hardly taken a two-second lead over Ryan Dungey when a media member ran in front of him while he was landing from a step-down jump. The distraction caused by the media member's movement was long enough for Stewart to crash, in which his wrist was injured.

Though Stewart is hopeful that he would be back to the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross series at High Point in Mount Morris, Pa. next Saturday, he will currently have to return to his home state of Florida to ascertain the seriousness of his wrist injury in the carsh which he said was "a bummer," and added: "But at the end of the day, that's racing."