Britain’s Chaz Davies rode through the penultimate AMA Supersport race with a broken wrist and didn’t know about it until he went to hospital on Sunday night.

The Attack Kawasaki man was involved in a huge pile-up on the back straight at Road Atlanta where bikes has crashed in front of him. Having nowhere to go, Davies hit one and immediately crashed.

"I tucked in for the back straight, and then I saw bikes on the ground," said Davies. "Before I could avoid it, I hit one of the bikes. I ended up going over the bars and hitting really hard."

Unknown to Davies, he broke his wrist during the incident. Initially he only saw a deep cut on his elbow and wasn’t sure if he would be okay to go back out for the re-start, but overall felt that he could do it. Not until he had gone back to the hotel after the race did he know something was wrong with his wrist sought medical attention.

"I was really sore all over," said Davies after the race. "My wrist was really sore. I started from pit lane since I was really debating about going back out but I knew that we were sixth in points and wanted to earn anything I could to stay there."