Swan Yamaha's Tommy Hill will take no further part in today's British Superbike action at Oulton Park after tearing ligaments in his left shoulder during a morning warm-up crash.

The series leader highsided on fluid left by Loris Baz's Motorpoint Yamaha on the exit of Brittens during the second lap of this morning's 20-minute session and will be out for at least three weeks.

"The injury is stage three and that usually needs an operation but I'm going to wait and see. I think I will have to miss Croft and come back for Oulton. But I don't want a niggling injury for the rest of the season so. Just when it was all going so well, this goes and happens, but the new points system might play into our hands now as we can drop a round," said Hill speaking to bikesportnews.com in his garage this lunchtime as Loris Baz came to apologise.

"I had just come out of Brittens and was pushing it left when I caught a glimpse of a yellow flag out of the corner of my eye. When you see a yellow, you always roll off it a bit and there was no-one on the track but then it spat me off and there was nothing I could do. It was a big crash and I'm really sore now. I was ok before but it is really starting to hurt."

It is a double blow for the Hill family after younger version Jimmy smashed his wrist highsiding out of the first Supersport race yesterday on lap one.