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 Misano 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 Supe♏rpole race.
The second of the two tumbles had a more significant impact than the fir꧒st, 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 continued, but felt his arm would have been in a ‘🍌bad place’, when only a couple of points wer♔e realistically on the table.
"Unfortunately not a good weekend and not a good day at all! In the Superpole 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 ౠthe 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 much Mahiasꦍ was gonna stop and I just caught hi🧔s 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 red𝓡uce my pain, but I knew it would have been really tough.
"I had𒁃 no power on the right corners 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 l𒁏ittle bit.
"It just made no sense to continue. I could have got a couple of points൲, but I would have been in a bad place 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!"