Max Vohland announced in September that he will return to racing in 2025 with ClubMX, but his road to recovery has been a difficult one that included a recurring hip injury and the the awareness of the potential for an addiction to pain pills.
Vohland began the 2024 Monster Energy Supercross season with a fifth-place finish at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The following week, he struggled in a muddy race in San Francisco and then severely dislocated his hip before Round 3 in San Diego.
“I hit my hip before, in my rookie year, and honestly it wasn’t that bad – took four to six weeks and I was back on the bike,” Vohland said in an interview with RacerX.com. “But this time around, I ended up hitting my sciatic nerve really bad and really contused it and that’s what caused me a lot of the problems.”
Vohland described the injury as having the nerve “turned off. I guess you hit it that hard it kind of protects itself …