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Despite riding in the first practice session of the World Superbike round at Brno Friday, James Toseland will miss his third consecutive round of racing for the BMW Motorrad Italia team. The Briton sat out Misano and Motorland Aragon after also missing Donington Park, Assen, and Monza due to complications from a wrist injury he sustained while testing at Aragon in March. Though Spanish doctors quickly cleared him to race after the crash, Toseland underwent an operation to insert wires in his wrist soon thereafter when it became clear that there was a disruption in blood flow to his hand.

“My wrist started to hurt again after [racing at] Salt Lake,” said Toseland a month ago, adding, “I’m determined to make a come back in Brno.” He did ride during this morning’s practice at the Czech round, finishing eighteenth fastest. After the session Toseland was force to admit, “Had a run out this morning to get upto speed, unfortunately I have to sit out the rest of the weekend and get fully fit for Silverstone.” He continued, ” [Lorenzo] Lanzi will fill in for the remainder of the weekend,” as he did at Misano and Aragon.

Popular KMR Kawasaki rider Ryan Farquhar has been ruled out of further 2011 Isle of Man TT participation, as the Irishman crashed at Keppel Gate during Friday’s practice sessions. Hitting a false neutral in the closing stages of the session, Farquhar managed to escape having any broken bones in the incident, but says he is too battered and bruised to compete this year in the TT. The event marks another blemish for the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R’s record here at the Isle of Man TT, which has more than a few competitors eying their green machines in leery ways.

“The final evening of practice was going well and we were certainly heading in the right way after the problems we’d had earlier in the week but it all went wrong when I went through Keppel Gate,” explained Farquhar. “I was back down for two gears for the right hander and then down one more gear for the left but I hit a false neutral in between the two corners and ran off the track. I managed to save the bike and was skirting the barriers but just when I thought I’d saved it, the final barrier came back out towards the course and I hit it head on and down I went.”