[{"id":473,"permalink":"https:\/\/dirtsportsworld.com\/2020\/02\/18\/valley-fever-and-surgery-sidelines-rpm-racing\/","title":"Valley Fever and Surgery Sidelines RPM Racing","content":"RPM Racing has announced through SCORE International, the team will not race in 2020. Team co-owner and principal driver Justin Matney is not only recovering from a recent heart surgery, but it was also discovered he had Valley Fever.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nSCORE says while the clinic was preparing Matney for mitral heart valve surgery, a mass was discovered in his lung and quickly diagnosed as Valley Fever. A possible cause of Valley Fever can be attributed to the prolonged exposure to the dust found in the desert while Matney was racing. Doctors say Matney will take six months to make a full successful recovery.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n\u201cWe anticipate a return to a full schedule of SCORE desert racing in 2021 and look forward to racing for championships in several different classes next year. The thoughts and prayers of the desert racing community are greatly appreciated. \u00a0RPM is targeting a return to the SCORE World Desert Championship for this year\u2019s wild and wonderful SCORE Baja 1000 peninsula run,\u201d says Matney.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nMatney has 6 SCORE season championships under his belt. Under the ownership of Clyde Stacey, the team as a whole has won nearly 30 class season points championships. Drivers impacted by RPM\u2019s decision not to race include Carlos \u201cApdaly\u201d Lopez, Sara Price and Derek Fletcher. RPM has typically fielded multiple cars during racing events.","excerpt":"RPM Racing has announced through SCORE International, the team will not race in 2020. Team co-owner and principal driver Justin Matney is not only recovering from a recent heart surgery, but it was also discovered he had Valley Fever. SCORE says while the clinic was preparing Matney for mitral heart","date":"February 18, 2020 12:09","categories":[{"id":25047610,"title":"Desert Racing","slug":"desert-racing"},{"id":25047612,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"tags":[{"id":25047704,"title":"apdaly lopez","slug":"apdaly-lopez"},{"id":25047701,"title":"baja","slug":"baja"},{"id":25047702,"title":"baja 1000","slug":"baja-1000"},{"id":25047659,"title":"desert racing","slug":"desert-racing"},{"id":25047697,"title":"justin matney","slug":"justin-matney"},{"id":25047688,"title":"mint 400","slug":"mint-400"},{"id":25047703,"title":"off road race team","slug":"off-road-race-team"},{"id":25047632,"title":"off-road","slug":"off-road"},{"id":25047698,"title":"rpm racing","slug":"rpm-racing"},{"id":25047705,"title":"sara price","slug":"sara-price"},{"id":25047700,"title":"score","slug":"score"},{"id":25047699,"title":"score international","slug":"score-international"},{"id":25047707,"title":"surgery","slug":"surgery"},{"id":25047638,"title":"trophy truck","slug":"trophy-truck"},{"id":25047706,"title":"valley fever","slug":"valley-fever"}]}]{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "user_comment": "This feed allows you to read the posts from this site in any feed reader that supports the JSON Feed format. To add this feed to your reader, copy the following URL -- https://dirtsportsworld.com/2020/02/18/valley-fever-and-surgery-sidelines-rpm-racing/feed/json/ -- and add it your reader.", "home_page_url": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/2020/02/18/valley-fever-and-surgery-sidelines-rpm-racing/", "feed_url": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/2020/02/18/valley-fever-and-surgery-sidelines-rpm-racing/feed/json/", "language": "en-US", "title": "Comments on: Valley Fever and Surgery Sidelines RPM Racing", "description": "The Voice of Off-Road Motorsports", "icon": "https://i0.wp.com/dirtsportsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-DSW-Web-Icon.png?fit=59%2C59&ssl=1" }