![]() ![]() His dad, a racer himself, had him on his lap on a bike just forty-eight hours out of the hospital. Oh, and the couple of days right after he was born. In his thirty years on this planet, there are very few days in which he has not been on one-and those were for rehabbing broken bones. "Obviously." Because for Stewart, the dirt bike might as well be a fifth limb. "I haven't lined up bar-to-bar with guys staring over at me in the longest time." Which is not to say he didn't ride during his suspension. "It's weird being back here tonight," he says after practice, in his tour bus, a couple of hours before the qualifying heats. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play And so he sat out the entire 2015 supercross season. ![]() He had a prescription but didn't file the necessary paperwork. In December 2014, he was suspended for a failed drug test. It has been more than a year since James Stewart Jr. But he is also savoring the moment, every now and then looking up to the 45,050 empty seats that in a few hours will be jammed with fans. He is meticulously examining the dirt, searching for areas where he can steal some time-even just fractions of a second. He takes the course slowly, practically idling over the bumps and through the turns. Tonight is the first race of the 2016 Monster Energy Supercross season, and at the moment a half-dozen men astride deafening 450-cc engines-Braaap! Braaap! Br-ap-ap-ap!-soar and twist through the air on their practice laps. That is what is happening on this early-January morning inside Angel Stadium of Anaheim. "We all look the same with our helmets on"
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