Motorsport: Rider left with hefty injuries

Whangarei's Duncan Coutts wipes out in Race One of the Lyndsay Tait & Associates Post Classic Pre '89 Senior class at Manfeild. Photo / Terry Stevenson

The latest round of the 2015 Suzuki Series held at Manfeild Park is one Whangarei rider Duncan Coutts won't be able to recall anytime soon.

Nor would he want to.

Leading Race One of the Post Classic class, Coutts brought the race to a red flag after crashing his Suzuki GSXR1100 in spectacular fashion.

Being admitted to Palmerston North Hospital after the incident, Coutts' injury tally was hefty.

"I don't remember anything until finding myself in the hospital," he said.

"A few breaks... dislocated shoulder, broken shoulder blade, five [broken] ribs, burst an eardrum, suspected broken thumb and [the] other sprained. Black eyes but no broken nose," Coutts added of his injury tally.

Despite the solid injury count, Coutts said his concussion was the most concerning thing for doctors. Recording second position on a countback of a lap in Race One of the Post Classic class despite having crashed, Coutts is unlikely to get back on the bike for a while with a potentially lengthy rehabilitation on the cards. The third and final round of the 2015 series, the Cemetery Circuit in Whanganui, takes place this Saturday.

Lyndsay Tait & Associates Post Classic Pre '89 Senior Race 1:

Eddie Kattenberg (Te Awanga, Bimota YB8), 1; Duncan Coutts (Whangarei, Suzuki GSXR1100), 2; Paul Russell (Auckland, Suzuki GSXR1100), 3; Sean Donnelly (Paraparaumu, Kawasaki Z1000R), 4; Paul Wootton (Waikane, Suzuki GSXR1100), 5.