Vermeulen ruled out for Valencia

[Kat00]

http://www.worldsbk.com/images/stories/news/w408h272_0000000febaba884.jpgKawasaki Racing Team's Chris Vermeulen has visited an orthopedic surgeon in Belgium after missing out on the second round of the WSB season at Portimao.
The 27-year-old from Brisbane announced in a blog, posted on his personal website, that he had undergone an arthroscopy operation with Dr Claes last week to help speed up his recovery.


Vermeulen, who spearheads the Kawasaki attack after returning to WSB this year, had an unfortunate start to the year when he damaged his right knee in a high-speed crash in the second race at Phillip Island. After deciding on an early return in Portugal, he was only able to complete two laps of practice on board his ZX-10R before giving up for the rest of the weekend.


The Australian said the operation had been successful, despite the serious damage his knee had suffered, but confirmed that he would miss out on this week's round at Valencia and that he hopes to be fit for round four at Assen at the end of April.



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[stetto]

Not good, hope he is back soon

[Cedric]

Just can't get a break can he? I was looking forward to seeing if he could get that bike working..

[Captain]

Damn shame


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRfK0mlme30&feature=player_embedded

[*Oggy*]

Having been limping around myself for the past 4 weeks, I can sympathise with what a pain (literally) it is .....

Glad he didnt try and ride last round, cos its a fine line between getting back on too early and wrecking your career....

(plus I did hear when the team went to rebuild the bike, they put in the request for some race parts.......... Kawasaki are still trying to find some !!!!!!!!!!!!)

[Foghorn]

Interesting isn't it.......you can have a clear physical injury and take perscribed time to recover.......although plenty haven't in the past ie McCoy in 02. The press will leave you in relative peace, respecting the efforts you make to get back to close to optimum wellness. However if it's a mystery illness, even if you vomit in your helmet and have to be assisted off the bike, how differently you are treated.

[Stu23]

Would have been better if he had broke a bone rather than the soft tissue damage he has done.....this will always take much more time to heal unfortunately