Image: Russell Colvin.

Victorian Jed Metcher has suffered a series of broken bones in an incident last Sunday at Broadford’s opening round of the Pirelli Road Race Series.

In a rare warm-up lap incident, Metcher fell victim to an unfortunate two-rider collision upon the braking area into the notorious ‘Crash Corner’. He sustained a broken left fibula and five broken bones in his left foot.

“The rider in front was doing a hard brake-check in the braking area as he had crashed the race before and needed to test that the bike was all okay,” Metcher explained.

“I came over the hill and used the brakes for the first time, only softly as it was on the warm-up lap the gap between me and the rider in front was only 10 to 15 meters. Before I knew it that gap was gone. My front brake level caught on his back or leg and flipped me over the ‘bars.”

The previous day, Metcher broke Shannon Johnson’s 56.994s lap record set back in 2009 with an eventual benchmark of 56.639s on the Race Center Kawasaki ZX-10R, which Metcher and the team are developing for an assault on next year’s World Superbike round at Phillip Island.