While using a recent British Superbike Championship race at
Silverstone to get in some valuable testing miles, Renegade Honda's Ben Bostrom suffered impact injuries to his back and internal organs after a massive highside, but hopes to recover sufficiently by Assen to improve on his overall 15th place in the WSBK rankings.
Given his injuries, Bostrom fully expects Assen to be a painful trial - but is boosted by his pace in Silverstone BSB qualifying, where he lapped within 1.3secs of Michelin shod pole sitter
Ryuichi Kiyonari of HM Plant Honda.
"After a good qualifying and some hard work finding improvements in set-up I had a fourth gear highside after hitting water left by another bike," confirmed the 31-year-old American. "It was the biggest highside of my life.
"It's left me with an incredibly painful back and it messed up my insides quite a bit. I suppose the good news is that I've lost about ten pounds in weight, because the internal bruising has put me off eating.
"In the run up to the races I'm just looking to rest as much as possible, and get the bike as easy to ride fast just as soon as I can," he added.
