Overview
- The TT winner says an initial collision in Thursday qualifying bent the bike, it was repaired in the pits, and three laps into a late run the steering jammed at Turn 2 and sent him into the wall.
- He reports a broken left femur, right tibia and right foot, along with a broken nose.
- Surgeons inserted a rod in his femur and screws in his tibia, and he has begun standing on his left leg in early rehabilitation.
- He says there is no ETA for a comeback, leaving his North West 200 participation in doubt and raising concerns over his TT preparations.
- He links the failure to damage around the steering lockstops from the earlier crash under U.S. rules that allowed him to remount, and notes Peter Hickman also crashed that weekend but was uninjured.