Back injury sidelines Billy the Bullet.

Billy Hamill will miss the Elite League Riders' Championship at Poole after suffering a back injury and severe bruising when he came to grief in Friday's American National Championship round at Auburn.

'Billy the Bullet' spent the night at hospital after the meeting - being released at 7am on Saturday morning.

Extensive X-rays revealed a compressed fracture of his first lumbar vertebra and he is replaced by Peterborough's Sam Tesar.

Billy Hamill will miss the Elite League Riders' Championship at Poole after suffering a back injury and severe bruising when he came to grief in Friday's American National Championship round at Auburn.

'Billy the Bullet' spent the night at hospital after the meeting - being released at 7am on Saturday morning.

Extensive X-rays revealed a compressed fracture of his first lumbar vertebra and he is replaced by Peterborough's Sam Tesar.

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