Misano WorldSBK: Shoulder injury causes Davies to retire from race two

A shoulder injury caused GoEleven Ducati rider Chaz Davies to abandon an already disastrous WorldSBK weekend in Misa🥃no early.
Davies was scoreless after race one due to a crash at turn four, before contact with Lucas Mahias♍ saw him fall again at turn two on the opening lap of Sunday morning’🀅s Superpole race.
The second of the two tumbles had a more significant impact than the first, as Davies suffered a shoulder injury to his right arm that after a few laps in race two, resulted in the Welsh rider cutting his꧃ efforts short and retiring.
Davies said he could have co𒀰ntinued, but felt his arm would have been in a ‘bad place’, when only a couple of points were realistically on the table.
"Unfortunately not a good weekend and not a good day at all! In the Superpol♏e Race I thought we had maybe improved the bike a little bit; for what I felt from the warm-up lap, so I was charged up for the race, trying to put myself in the first couple of rows for the main race," added Davies.
"I had a good start, then from turn 1 to turn 2 I was on the inside, but when we went left I didn't anticipate how ꦛmuch Mahias was gonna stop and I just caught his rear wheel.
"My bike was quite upright, I crashed and I landed very hard on my shoulder. I tried to recover in the best possible way between the two races to reduce my pain, but I knew it would have been really tough. ꧟;
"I had no power on the right corn⛄ers and in the hard braking zones - there are so many here. The left was ok, but the right was very difficult. I did a few laps and the pain was increasing and increasing and I continued losing the power and the control a little bit.
"It just made no sense to cဣontinue. I could have got a couple of points, but I would have been in a bad place𝓀 and in a bad feeling in the end, and possibly do more damage. Now I will do a shoulder check and have a rest for a couple of days and hopefully be ok for Donington!"