Samsung Suzuki's John Hopkins has been under the knife again in California to have further surgery on the finger he marmalised at the Brno MotoGP race in order to try and be 100 per cent fit for next weekend's penultimate British Superbike round at Silverstone.

The American, who did the Donington Park double last time out, knew his finger hadn't healed properly and X-rays revealed the errant knuckle had not located properly so has now been sorted using a plate and microscrews (pictured below).

"There was a lot of pain in my fingers at Donington Park, and I knew it wasn't right and in fact I was very worried I'd aggravated the injury. So I rushed back to see my surgeon on the Monday," said Hopkins.

"The x-rays showed that my middle finger wasn't locating properly in the second knuckle. Fortunately the bone area that had previously been crushed was now nicely healed and so my surgeon was able to put in screws and plates so as to stabilize the finger.

"I could feel straight away that the finger was much stronger and it's improved every day since. I'm now very confident that I'll be able to ride at near-enough 100% at Silverstone next weekend."