Ben Wilson suffered more dreadful luck on the injury front as he broke his leg after crashing out of the Dickies British Supersport race at Thruxton over the weekend.
He was initially taken to the circuit medical centre where it was confirmed he had broken the same leg that was badly broken in his horror crash at the North West 200 in 2016 – although it was the femur that was involved back then.
Kirton racer Wilson, who has only just returned from that injury, was transferred to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge where he will see the surgeon who previously treated him and will be overseeing the operation that will be needed.
Up until then the weekend was going well for Wilson who qualifying for a start from the sixth row of the grid for Saturday’s opening Sprint race.
But he encountered a problem on the warm-up lap which saw him pull off the grid for adjustments.
That meant that, when the race started, he was forced to start from the back of the grid.
However, as the lights went out Wilson flew off the line to make up an amazing ten places on the first lap.
Although he was at a disadvantage, he picked off a few more riders making his way through to tenth place at the flag to pick up six championship points for his efforts.
It wasn’t where he wanted to be, but in the circumstances he did extremely well.
Starting the feature race on Sunday from the head of row seven, Wilson got away to another quick start moving through to ninth on the first lap.
But it all went wrong for the Kirton ace when he high sided and was thrown from his machine landing heavily on the tarmac – resulting in the leg injury.
It’s likely that the injury will end Wilson’s season prematurely.
