Bad luck for Blackfoot

By John Hopkins

The Blackfoot Honda motocross team had a rough go of it at the U.S. Supercross round in Indianapolis earlier this month.

According to the team's newsletter, issued last Friday, its transporter was broken into while parked at the team's hotel in Indy and two 2006 Honda CRF250Rs were stolen. The newsletter said the Blackfoot squad still had no leads on the theft.

The Calgary-based effort was buoyed by the support of the rest of the Supercross racing community, however, which helped them field bikes for Mitch Cooke and Dusty Klatt in the weekend's Supercross Lites class. Team Boo Koo reportedly made a bike available for Cooke and the Factory Connection squad offered parts to build a bike for Klatt.

Klatt, however, failed to qualify for the evening race program while Cooke missed the main event after finishing ninth in the LCQ.