Leon Camier looks likely to be out for the rest of the 2007 British Superbike Championship after suffering an horrific crash at Cadwell Park in Monday's eleventh round of the year.
Having already clashed with Jonny Rea in race one, the Bike Animal Honda rider was up to seventh in race two when he got out of shape over The Mountain on lap nine and high-sided, landing heavily on his left side. Clearly in some pain, Camier received attention while the safety car slowed the field, and was subsequently transferred to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilised before being airlifted to Lincoln Hospital. Although his life is not in danger, footage of the incident underlines the seriousness of the damage to his left leg, which includes a dislocated knee and broken thigh.
"He's okay in himself, but obviously devastated at what's happened and in a lot of pain from his left leg," Bike Animal team manager Havier Beltran told
Crash.net Radio not long after the incident, "He's obviously done a lot of damage there, around the knee area and so on, but he's in the right hands and has been flown off in the air ambulance to get it sorted out.
"It's difficult to say without knowing exactly what he has done to the leg but, if it was just a dislocation, I'm sure he'd be back on board again [before the end of the season]. We'll just have to see how much other damage he's done to the leg. He's complaining of a bit of pain in the pelvis and hip area and still a lot of pain from above the knee. Whether that's from the dislocation or not, I don't know, but we'll wait to hear a professional medical opinion."
The first race clash with title challenger Rea - which came when Camier was running third behind lead Leon Haslam and the Irishman - was, according to Beltran, just one of those things.
