Butler was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and will probably sit out the season.

"It rained earlier in the day, and there were parts that were greasy, and then there were parts that were tacky. Right before the main event, they wheel-packed the tacky spots, so you couldn't tell what was tacky and what was wet and greasy. So you'd go in thinking everything was good, and guys were getting caught off guard. It took us four starts to get five laps completed, and once we got through the first four starts, it was cool after that because the lines defined themselves. What was hard and greasy you could tell, and what was wet and tacky you could tell. But when you started off, and it was all shiny, you couldn't tell. One of them nights.

"I was in the first crash. I had to start from the rear of the grid anyway, because we switched bikes. We roasted an engine in our heat race, despite the fact that we qualified. I had thought it was starting to make some noise and it was tying up. Kenny took a look at the oil filter and agreed with my assessment that it was starting to take a shit. We switched bikes for the main event, and I had to start at the back. Butler had gone down, and he departed from his bike and he went wide, but his bike came down low where I had committed to go. I hit the front end of his bike and went flying up over the bars. Hacker proceeded to run Butler over, that's how Butler's injured leg came about. I landed on my hip. I've got a bruise about a foot long, and I could hardly walk after the race.

"Then I restarted at the back of the grid in single file. We had gone four laps - it reverted back one- so we had three laps complete. I take off into the first corner, and King lowsides avoiding Kevin Varnes, who I guess had braked a little early. Another red flag comes out. So I move up one position (King's behind me). We take off again, and I moved up about five or six positions, and Davis loses the front end in the middle of three and four and proceeds to take Morehead, Springer, Bigelow, and Varnes with him. So we lined back up again. I lined up tenth. We finally got the race in. I cruised around with my bent-up motorcycle and my bruised up body and soldiered on and got a seventh, and was happy to get the hell out of there."

The next round gets underway one week hence in Sedalia, Missouri