This might hurt a bit Leon...
17 year-old Leon Haslam certainly won the bravery award at Le Mans. The British Honda rider broke his left wrist when he fell in the first MotoGP 500 qualifying session on Friday afternoon, and went back to the Clinic Mobile that evening where the doctors decided to have a closer look...
17 year-old Leon Haslam certainly won the bravery award at Le Mans. The British Honda rider broke his left wrist when he fell in the first MotoGP 500 qualifying session on Friday afternoon, and went back to the Clinic Mobile that evening where the doctors decided to have a closer look...
"They told me they thought they could pull the bone straight but it would hurt but it meant not having to have an operation to pin the break," explained Haslam, who is the youngest ever competitor in the MotoGP 500 class." They closed the doors and started pulling and they were right about it hurting, especially as I'd taken no pain killers.
"However they straightened the broken bone and I don't need an operation and I should be back in action at the Catalunya Grand Prix at Barcelona in four weeks time."
Haslam will celebrate his 18th birthday at the end of the month with his wrist in plaster.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
