Fourteen-time Isle of Man TT winner Peter Hickman has been released from hospital and is back in the paddock following his crash during Friday night's practice session and will remain on the island to support team-mate and team co-owner Davey Todd and their 8Ten Racing squad, according to team partner BMW Motorrad UK.
A brief condition update released by race organisers on Sunday morning confirmed that Hickman had been released, and while the full extent of the ‘chest, back, shoulder, and facial injuries' he suffered in the Kerrowmoar crash has yet to be detailed, a photo released by BMW shows no significant damage.
Honda Racing rider Dean Harrison led the Friday night practice session away, with Hickman second on his superstock machine. The 8Ten Racing rider crashed at Kerrowmoar, a bumpy third-gear left hand corner taken by riders at over 100mph on a 1000cc machine.
Roughly halfway around the 37.73 mile lap, it's almost directly after Ginger Hall, where Hickman fell in last year's Senior TT while leading the race, and regarded by his fellow TT racers as a corner where he was lucky to escape without more serious injuries.
"Gutted for my mate, my team-mate, my team co-owner - call him whatever you want, but he's a mate first of all, and I'm just gutted for him," Todd told The Race on Saturday.
"But in the same breath, we've spoken a lot about it and said that it's actually not all bad. It could be so much worse, and we've got to look positively on it.
"He was lucky, it could have been worse, he's alright, and he'll be back."
Tom Weedon was also injured on Friday in a freak crash at Glen Helen where he struck the wall on corner entry, lost control of his machine, and wheelie'd into the protective bales on the exit from the turn.
He remains in Noble's Hospital where TT organisers have described his condition as ‘stable and continues to receive treatment for back, leg, and ankle injuries.' Active on social media since, he posted on Saturday morning to thank those who assisted him after his crash.
"Been a rollercoaster couple of days," he posted, "but the good news is I'm OK and still have a foot attached to my leg. Incredibly lucky to be here and in the condition I am in.
"I went underneath the barriers and hit the wall feet first, [and] somehow only ‘walked away' with left leg tibia and fibula, dislocated and smashed up ankle on right leg, broken T12 vertebrae, broken hand and a messed up little finger.
"I feel extremely lucky to be here at all. I clipped the wall on the exit, bent the bar, and it's jammed the throttle wide open. It ripped me backwards and sent the bike into a wheelie heading straight towards the barrier."
