Gardner reveals plans for a post-season back operation
10/10/2024 03:29 AM
Remy Gardner needs to have back surgery after the 2024 World Superbike season.
After appearing at Motegi as a Yamaha wildcard rider for the Japanese Grand Prix Remy Gardner revealed he would be having surgery on his back after the 2024 World Superbike season.
The GYTR GRT Yamaha rider said that after the final round of the season at Jerez he will not be able to ride a bike for the remainder of 2024.
"I think the factory (Superbike) boys are doing a test in November. I'm not doing it because I'm having surgery on my back, so I'll be off the bike until next year after Jerez," Gardner said.
"The crash last year from Misano where Petrucci took out Domi and then Domi took me out on the first lap kind of set it off," he said. "I had a bit of pain. I was like, 'I'll get over it after a few days like I usually do'. And it was like 2 months!
"I got over it and then I had a wakeboard crash, doing a backflip! So, I hurt it again and it didn't get better after that. I went to get it checked at the end of last year, and the doctor said, 'Yeah, you've got the back of a 45-year-old'.
"So, I've been basically putting it off this year, just with a few injections in the back to help it. I was close to doing the surgery in that big break we had between Assen and Misano.
"But I didn't want to risk it in the middle of the season. We were quite OK at that point in the season. I thought let's focus on riding and that's it.
"It's not a massive operation. They're just going to basically clean up a bit of the scar tissue. It's like calcified muscle around those two vertebrae. It's unstable and the disks are suffering from that.
"But I've got to be a month at home basically with my feet up, which I'm not going to take very lightly. So let's see if I behave myself!"
After finishing in 16th place at Motegi last weekend Gardner will be back in action this weekend at Estoril for the penultimate round of the World Superbike season.
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