Haydon cleared of careless riding.

Following the fall out from the Snetterton crash involving James Haydon on the Rizla Suzuki and Dean Thomas on the Hawk Kawasaki, the MCRCB held a judicial hearing into the incident. The outcome found Haydon not guilty of careless riding.

The crash happened at round seven of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, when Haydon, who had been suffering from brake fade, out braked himself into the Esses. He was carrying too much speed to make the turn and ran across the grass rejoining the track on the other side of the chicane. Unfortunately Thomas had just exited the chicane and a collision was inevitable.

Thomas who was at Brno World Superbikes at the weekend spoke to Crash.net Radio, "I was oblivious to the whole thing - the first thing I knew was an impact in the back. James had just out-braked himself down the back straight and he had run straight on across the grass and tried to get back onto the track on the other side of the Esses. He did his best to try and miss me; he just got drawn in and hit me square on.

"The first I knew was I felt a big hit in the back, I was flying through the air and next minute I caught a glimpse of blue and worked out who it was. It was a racing incident and I'm not holding a grudge about it at all, it is just going to take me some time to get back. It has caused me a bit of grief with the series for this year, but as long as I can put in some good results for the last five rounds, hopefully I'll put myself back up there in the championship," he concluded.

Haydon also sustained further injury to his already damaged shoulder from his crash at Mallory, ligament damage to his knee, injured ribs and cracked bones in his foot. Both riders are hoping to be fit to race at Croft in three weeks time.

Thomas can't wait to get back on a bike if nothing else but to relieve the boredom.

"I'm not so bad; I'm up on my feet and about which is just fine and probably the frustrating bit. During the day I feel I could be on a bike but as soon as I start to do anything physical, I just don't have any upper body strength and I don't have any strength round my ribs and I have a lot of pain there still," he said, "I wouldn't last three days on a motorbike, I'd probably get through Friday and that would be the end of me. Seeing as how the two rounds are back to back it has left me no choice but to miss Oulton and spend the next three weeks getting fresh and come back strong for Croft."