Carlos Checa has been discharged from the Melbourne hospital where he was taken as a precautionary measure following his big crash during race 1, when he was running fourth and out-braked himself into Honda corner clipping the rear end of Marco Melandri’s BMW.
The Ducati rider was diagnosed with a mild concussion and his memory has returned, so he was released this morning and his Alstare team tweeted, “Carlos is out of hospital! Doctors said he is fine! Alstare crew is flying back to Europe now” and Checa added his own personal tweet, “Leaving the hospital few hours ago, was big impact in head likely I’m fine.
As well sorry for Marco I couldn’t avoid.
Thanks 4 the support”Melandri who tried to help Checa (they share the same manager, Alberto Vergani) following the incident, was truly upset by the way the Spanish rider was handled and told Italian TV, “They treated Carlos like a piece of plastic while he was laying there unconscious.
They forced me to go to the medical center and almost left him laying there.
”Checa had already suffered a big highside during FP1 which he said “Was one of the biggest highsides of my career and I think I went up a long way before hitting the track.
I was lucky not to break anything but I hurt my left shoulder and my right foot,” but the day after he went on to take the first Superpole of the season.