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DPH Motorsport Yamaha’s Ross Beaton will miss the opening half of the 2015 MX Nationals after sustaining a broken leg while training recently.

It’s a cruel blow for Beaton, who had landed the coveted DPH Motorsport seat alongside Lawson Bopping in the MX1 ranks for this season.

“This is definitely not where I thought I would be at the moment,” Beaton said. “I was riding at a friend’s place with my brother and Lawson Bopping actually.

“We were on our first ride out after lunch and I was trying to wash some speed off over a jump and I stalled my bike on the up ramp, which resulted in me going over the handlebars and breaking my leg.”

Beaton will be forced out of the first five rounds of the 2015 season, but plans to return for the sixth at Raymond Terrace, NSW, on 5 July. It hasn’t made the Victorian re-access his plans to return.

“At this stage if everything goes as planned I will be on the start line at round six,” he said. “Sure it’s a set back and it wasn’t apart of the plan, but at the end of the day these things happen and you can’t let them get the better of you.”

Beaton was due to make his fulltime return for the first time since 2010 when he was runner-up in the MXD title race outdoors.