Season over for Ben Spies
The bad luck did not abandon even Ben Spies in Sepang . The Texan has fallen in the race, an incident that did not seem to have had important consequences, so that the Yamaha rider after checking the medical center was returned to the hotel for the night. The pain, however, has suggested this morning to go to a hospital in Kuala Lumpur for further investigation. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a lesion in the right shoulder and a fracture of a rib on the left side that could also have damaged the lung .
Ben was still discharged from hospital and returned to the hotel where he would spend the night. currently has not yet been a decision on his presence at Phillip Island for the GP will start on Friday, but given the consequences of the fall of his participation in risk . There is no respite for Spies this year, so that adds another point to the list of trouble.
UPDATE. Ben Spies has officially announced via Twitter that tomorrow at nine in the morning, take a plane back to the United States, where he will undergo an operation to reduce the artificial stretching of the ligaments of the right shoulder (Ben has already undergone a previous operation). A Now it is certain that not take part in the GP of Australia and probably not even the Valencia race , even though his physical therapist said it could also back on track after just two weeks after surgery.
At this point the problem is not more than the Yamaha, not replace it in Australia, but will do so with one of its testers in Spain, but the Ducati, as the Texan could lose the important test in Valencia.