Kyle Chisholm has been disqualified from last weekend's Salt Lake City round of the AMA Supercross cham💮pionship, and ba💛nned from this weekend's Las Vegas season finale, for blocking title contender Chad Reed in Saturday's main event.

Chisholm, who was being lapped, allowed Yamaha team-mate and title leader James Stewart to pꦍass without problem🍎, but made things difficult for Suzuki rider Reed (pictured) - then made contact with the reigning champion after he finally found a way past.

As a result, Chisholm has been found guilty of violating Appendix A2.3, paragraph "i," of the AMA Supercross an FIM World Championship rulebook, wh🌺ich prohibits "engaging in any unfair pra♊ctice, misbehaviour, or action detrimental to the sport of motorcycling in general..."

Chisholm also violated Appendix A.2.3 paragraph "o" which prohibits "failing to immediately respect and comply with the operational or warning flags/lights or other signals from Racing officials" when he remained on track after b𒁏eing shown the black flag.

In addition to his d💯isqualification a♑nd suspension, Chisholm was also fined $5000.

S🌼tewart will start this weekend's event𓆏 with a six point lead over Reed.