Soomer is out with a shoulder injury – Schrötter is giving it a go, but his knee is injured

Following the Euro Moto races in Most just over a month ago, the flight to Japan took off that very same evening. For three Euro Moto riders – Lennox Lehmann, Hannes Soomer and Marcel Schrötter – the trip came to an end sooner than planned, and they were on their way home again almost as soon as they’d properly arrived. Straight to hospital.

Lennox Lehmann will be competing in the Euro Moto Supersport class with Team Apreco and his Yamaha. After the practice sessions, we’ll see whether his injured hand is up to the task.

Declining surgery

Euro Moto Superbike rider Marcel Schrötter from Team GERT56 will also be giving it a go. He sustained a serious injury to his left knee during night-time practice at Suzuka and has been walking around with a leg brace for several weeks now. The knee is still showing all sorts of colours ranging from blue to green. The diagnosis: a torn medial collateral ligament, as well as torn anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments.

Schrötter (2.v.li.) mit Beinschiene beim Speedfestival

Foto: GERT56

“Following a technical fault with the bike, the rear wheel locked up. I was skidding sideways, veered off the track, rolled over in a field and ended up crashing the bike into a wall,” the Pflugdorf native told the Augsburger Tagblatt. An operation would have brought Schrötter’s season to a premature end. Now he’s back on his BMW at Oschersleben and will see how things go in practice.

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Shoulder and wrist still need time to heal

For Estonian rider Hannes Soomer, this is already his second race without points in the current Euro Moto Superbike season. In Brno, he had opted not to start in order to replace the injured Danilo Petrucci in the Superbike World Championship on behalf of BMW. He was well aware that missing the Euro Moto race would reduce his chances of winning the title to virtually zero.

He has now had to pull out of the Oschersleben round due to the lingering effects of his injury following his appearance at the World Endurance Championship in Japan. “I’m still recovering from my Suzuka injury,” reports the Estonian. “I’m working hard to get back on the bike soon.” “Soon” would be the Euro Moto round at Assen, for which he has two weeks left to prepare. “Good luck to my colleagues at Team Masteroil-alpha-Van Zon-BMW.”

“I’ve got a fracture in my right shoulder,” explains Soomer, “a fracture of the humeral head. I can move my arm, but it’s still weak. Still, it’s a good sign that I’ve regained some mobility. I had an operation on my wrist, where I also had two fractures. That was done straight after I returned from Suzuka, so it’s already been four weeks. I can move my wrist again now, too. I can train and work with the physio. But I’m simply not fit enough to ride yet. It just needs a little more time. But things are progressing.”