It’s all change for Team USA heading to the 2026 Monster Energy FIM MXoN with Chance being side lined due to an injury however Team USA Manager Mike Pelliter, confirmed on Race Day Live “It’s been a heck of a day to be honest with you from free practice yesterday, I want to give a shout out to Chance, it was a hard conversation but the right one to make, he’s unfortunately going to miss MXoN. It’s been a busy 24 hours going through the paddock but we have made a decision already this morning because leaving Tuesday, we had to do this quickly and Julien Beaumer will take the spot on the 450 so we will have him, Levi Kitchen and Cooper Webb.”

Mike continues “Julien has always wanted to go, he is super passionate about it and sometimes that gives you an extra gear with that passion. The hard oart is we are leaving Tuesday and it’s a tall to ask this morning and say ‘hey, what are you doing next week?’. The KTM group has been incredible to try and put this together with a bike situation and testing and that. Julien is really excited, I just left the KTM truck to come here to be honest.”

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