Mountford retires from Road Racing after Macau GP crash

Russell Mountford’s bike is exhibited in Macau ahead of the GP

Thirty-three-year-old British driver Russell Mountford was involved in a serious accident at the 62nd Macau Grand Prix in November, and has now announced his retirement from all racing activities, namely the road racing championships.
Mountford, who hails from Wigan, UK, made the difficult decision after speaking with the surgeons who performed his seven-hour operation to repair his injured pelvis.
On December 21, Mountford said on Twitter that the operation had been successful but his surgeon had told him he would take three to four months to walk again.
He also tweeted that the decision to quit racing was based on the surgeon’s warnings that “even the smallest of crashes could result in problems with the metal parts used to put his pelvis in place,” and could leave him unable to walk again.
Mountford stated that he has achieved and surpassed his career goals, and that it is now time to be with his family and move on to the next chapter in his life.
“For me to be able to race at the level I have and on the circuits I have, I’m very proud to have done it. I have more than achieved all my goals through the years and I’ve always put 110 percent into everything I have done,” he tweeted.
Mountford, in his debut on the Guia circuit, crashed on the first day of this year’s Macau Grand Prix. He sustained several injuries, the worst of which was to his pelvis, effectively ending an eight-year road racing career that started at the Ian Watson Spring Cup Road Races at Oliver’s Mount, 2007.