Former British champion and multiple International road race winner Steve Plater is recovering from a fractured C1 vertebrae in his neck suffered in an off-road accident in the Welsh mountains.
But the 34-year-old British racer had a massive stroke of luck on the 15th and final lap of the event when he and rival John McGuinness, on the Stobart Vent Axia Honda, encountered two lapped riders at the Melco Hairpin.
The Virgin Mobile Samsung Yamaha British Superbike team will be out in force this weekend as it fields a quartet of riders for the ninth round of the Think! British Superbike Championship at Mallory Park.