PETERBOROUGH man Niels-Kristian Iversen is set to go under the knife to repair a broken bone in his hand.
Iversen fell in the first heat of his first home meeting for Gorzow at the weekend and continued to race through the pain barrier.
Now he's confirmed surgery is necessary in order to get back on track as quickly as possible.
"I carried on racing despite all the pain I was suffering," he said. "I went for x-rays this morning and it's now confirmed there is a broken bone in the hand.
"Surgery is now booked in to screw it back together and the doctors are confident I'll be riding again in a few weeks.