BRAVE British racer Tai Woffinden has seen plans for surgery on his collarbone scrapped. Woffinden, who needs six-points from the final Grand Prix of the season in Torun on Saturday week to become world champion, has visited hospital where it was decided to let the injury heal as it is.

The Scunthorpe-born rider crashed on Saturday in the Rockklassiker Scandinavian FIM Grand Prix at Stockholm’s magnificent Friends Arena and suffered a repeat of the injury sustained in Cardiff in June. He battled on courageously to gain seven points to close in on his dream of standing on top of the world.

Said Wolves star Woffinden: “I’ve been to hospital and seen the x-ray. Basically, I have fractured the collarbone and bent the plate that was already in there from the injury in June. “It’s uncomfortable, of course, but the advice which I am happy to take on board is that the metalwork is still keeping the collarbone in place and there is no point in having surgery to take it all out and put a new plate in. “I am better off resting for the next couple of weeks and allowing the injury to settle down. There is no reason why I can’t let it heal with a bent plate because the collarbone is still together.

“So I will rest, then go to Torun and do my very best. It’s the same as June, I know how to manage it and I will have to go through it all again in Poland as I did in June. “I will then go and see my doctor again, book another appointment to take a look and decide what course of action to take immediately after Torun.”