BMW Motorrad's Troy Corser rode through the pain for a pair of tenth places at Assen's World Superbike double-header despite the fact he discovered just days before the weekend that the hand he injured during a Monza testing crash was actually broken.

The two-time World Superbike Champion was high-sided off his S1000RR at Monza but doctors in Italy could find no serious damage. X-rays taken before the Dutch round revealed he had cracked a bone in his hand just under his left wrist.

"I didn’t know that I had broken a bone in my left hand until recently, because it didn’t show up on the X-rays in Monza during the tests. But as the days went on, I sort of felt that something wasn’t quite right and that was proved to be so when I had some more X-rays recently," said the veteran Aussie.

"I decided not to have pain-killing injections because when you have them, you can also lose feeling and sensation in the hand and that was the last thing I wanted when I was diving into a corner at high speed. So, I just had a couple of normal pills instead. Obviously they weren’t very strong and I certainly knew that I was in pain in the second race, but you just have to ignore it and keep going.
 
"Our bike is still being developed and there are some new parts to come very soon, so I am confident that there are improvements to come. We have only just started working on the traction and wheelie control, so you can see that’s there’s lots more we can do with the bike. The new schedule means that we have lost at least thirty minutes.

"If you are an experienced or established team it’s not so bad, but we are a new team and need as much track time as we can get. So, at the moment we are at a bit of a disadvantage, but everybody in the team is working hard and it’s not going to be too long before better results come."