Myers has been working with TKB Sports Medicine rehab specialist Tuan Nguyen, who coordinated treatment of the injury. Dr. Maury Harwood performed the surgery at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, California.

?The case went great. It couldn?t have gone any better,? said Dr. Harwood after surgery. ?This was probably an old injury she aggravated. We were able to get in and find a sizeable piece of bone. The scaphoid was fixed perfectly with a headless compression screw and we expect it to heal with no complications. Elena should be back on her bike in a couple of weeks.?

Myers broke her wrist nearly a year ago in a Supermoto crash and it is not known if this injury occurred then or at a later date. The break was diagnosed a week before Daytona and Myers raced at the front in both SuperSport races, which attracted the largest field in recent memory. Elena ran in the lead pack before being shuffled back in the order on the last lap to earn sixth on Friday and then won the race on Saturday. With the victory, Myers repeated as the only woman to ever win an AMA Pro sprint road race, and also became the first female to win an AMA Pro sprint road race at Daytona International Speedway. (Photo: Team Hammer.com)

Myers also showed her mettle by testing for two days at Homestead last week, despite the injury.

?It bothered me here and there. I thought it was just the aftermath (of the Supermoto crash) but I never thought anything was seriously wrong,? said 18-year-old Myers. ?I tested at Jennings GP before Daytona and it bothered me. I had a shocking-type pain, a surge. The next day was totally fine and I played 18 holes of golf. Later it started hurting really bad at home and I got it checked out and they found out what was wrong. I had a cortisone shot before Daytona. This is my first-ever surgery so it is kinda weird for me. The recovery time is two weeks or less so I?ll be ready for Atlanta and I am really looking forward to going there and racing again.?

“The surgery went really well,” said Nguyen. “We found the fragment and Dr. Harwood did a fantastic job. He is the best in my opinion and the recovery time is two weeks or less, so we?ll work to get her recovered in time for the next race.”

“I think how Elena?s handled this reflects on her dedication and the way she’s persevered to keep improving,” said team manager Keith Perry. “Racers have to put up with injuries from time to time and she’s shown she can do that and still be competitive. Elena?s tough. She’s done great and clearly made strides in the off-season. We’re anxious to see her back on the bike for these next few races because things are progressing well for her.”

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“I am delighted with our new rider line-up. Everybody in the QMMF team is very motivated and we all look forward to a good start of the 2012 season”, said Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah, President of the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation. “We can expect a strong performance and good results from both our new riders and we want to thank Dorna, IRTA, DMM Motorsport and of course QMMF for their ongoing support. Elena Rossell is the first ever female rider in the Moto2 category, and her progress in world championship racing will not only create keen interest of the hardcore race fans, but will also be an inspiration for many other people in our modern society. Our development rider Damian Cudlin is a promising rider and we believe he will do a very good job for our team. With Moriwaki as a manufacturer, the QMMF team has a fantastic technical base. Together, we will strive to become competitive on the highest level!”

Elena, who grew up with motorcycles also practiced other extreme sports such as taekwondo and triathlon, started racing in 2002 and moved up to the Spanish Supersport Championship in 2005. In 2008, she won the European Championship in the women’s class and in 2010 she competed in the Spanish Stock Extreme Championship before making her GP debut with three Moto2 races in 2011.

“I am really happy! To be able to do a full Moto2 World Championship season is a dream coming true and I would like to thank QMMF for their trust in me”, said Elena. “Things are happening very fast. Three years ago I started in the Kawasaki Ninja Cup, two years ago I moved up to the Spanish Championship, last year I had my first wild card entries in Moto2 and now I am approaching my first full season in the World Championship – it’s unbelievable! Despite my rapid progress I know that this year in the QMMF team will be very difficult for me. Everything is new and my main job will be to learn. The start of the season will be especially hard, but I don’t mind because I always had to work very hard in my life to achieve things. I am ready for the challenge. I am really motivated, because I know my new team has great potential, they are very professional but also very kind. I had a shoulder injury last year, but I am fully recovered and I’m training very hard with supermotard and motocross bikes, in the gym, running, mountain biking and swimming, in order to be in best possible shape when the season starts.”

Living in Taree in the Australian countryside, Damian Cudlin started riding dirt bikes at a very young age and won three Australian Junior Dirt Track titles in a row before moving his attention to road racing. At age 17, he got his first “big bike” ride in the 1000 cc Formula Extreme class and later on scored promising results in the Endurance World Championship, with two overall third places in 2006 and 2007. But he had to wait until 2011 before getting his first chance of Grand Prix racing as a replacement rider in the Moto2 and later on in the MotoGP category. “To finally arrive on this level and ride the first Grand Prix races of my life was an incredible experience”, said Damian. “My entire career long, I tried to catch a permanent Grand Prix ride, but it was very difficult to find the right support. Now, all stars lined up the right way and I’m finally getting my chance in the GP championship. The QMMF team has a great structure and lots of potential. I will try to bring in my experience as a development rider, a job that I’ve done for several teams and manufacturers during the last years. This will hopefully help to give the team the right direction with the set-up and further development of the bike and I am sure we will work very well together. I know lots of guys in the team because my young brother Alex raced with them both in the Endurance and in the Qatar championships. We will have a great time together!”

The QMMF team will continue its successful partnership with Moriwaki racing, running the latest version of the highly competitive Moriwaki MD 600. “I haven’t tested this bike yet, but I am confident that we’ll have a very good package”, said Damian. “In 2010, Moriwaki won the Moto2 world championship with Toni Elias and since then, the bike has further improved. The potential is there and the fact that I have experience with a variety of other four-stroke machines will help to understand the strong and weak points of the bike. I am sure we will be able to fight for some good results!”

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Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd David Brabham

Before we quickly gloss over the inevitable mention of the weather, it would be unfair not to mention the current reason for the increase in popcorn sales in the Superbike paddock. Jakub Smrz put his Effenbert-sponsored Ducati on provisional pole while his sponsor's future is uncertain. After a rather odd press release that seems to have been written while angry at one of their bikes braking down on the warm up lap at Monza, the Czech brewer refused to bring their hospitality suite to Donington. The Liberty Racing teams look set to continue racing for the remainder of the year, and may even be a bit embarrassed by their heated press release, but time will tell if it will be under the same sponsor's banner. The bikes at Donington sported the Effenbert livery and the garage was still decked in their colours, but no word yet on brolly dollies or other promotional activities.

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Henry Banks Fabrizio Barbazza John Barber Skip Barber

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Felice Bonetto Jo Bonnier Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu

Donington Park is renowned for giving fans exciting races. 48,500 of them turned up over the weekend to brave the cold wind and watch the most exciting racing Superbike races of the year. Crashes, surprises, upsets and spills were the order of the day while history was made and old enmities revisited.

The weekend started on Thursday with a white water rafting experience at Hole Pierpoint watersports centre. Leon Haslam, Chaz Davies, Eugene Laverty and Sam Lowes all messed about in a dinghy while facing the artificial rapids. Every one of the racers fell in at some point and Sam Lowes may have ingested the local water and contracted food poisoning that ravaged his insides and threatened to ruin his weekend.

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Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas Franco Comotti

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Larry Crockett Tony Crook Art Cross Geoff Crossley

A long fought battle with three riders fighting for the win.

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Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo

A long fought battle with three riders fighting for the win.

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Lucien Bianchi Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti

World Superbikes race two at Donington Park was a five-way dice that was settled in the last corner of the last lap in thrilling fashion.

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John CampbellJones Adrián Campos John Cannon Eitel Cantoni