James Toseland has decided he’ll try to race in this weekend’s World Superbike round at Brno.
The Briton has been been battling an extremely serious and career threatening wrist injury that he picked up during testing at Aragon last March.
BMW Motorrad Italia rider tried to return for the Monza round, but had to bow out due to the pain and then at Miller but was only able to ride in race 1 (taking 15th) before his wrist swelled up again and on doctors advice had to sit out both the Misano and Aragon rounds.
Toseland will try to ride on Friday’s free practice and provisional qualifying sessions, however if he should have any problems team manager Serafino Foti has replacement rider Lorenzo Lanzi on standby, just in case.
The former double World Superbike champion while recovering from his hand/wrist injury hasn’t being doing any real training, but was able to pen a deal with Joda Clothing to become their testimonial and last weekend rocked the crowds with his singing at the BMW Motorrad Days at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.