AARON UPDATE

NEWS Saturday 17th May 2014, 2:30pm

by Toby Lerone

  Edinburgh Monarchs

It's good news from Aaron Fox as he was released from hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning having had the nasty gash on his right thigh stitched.

In Aaron's own words, "They've pulled the wound back together and stitched it up." He's been told by the hospital that he sound be fit to race again in fourteen days and in typical speedway rider style, Aaron is determined to be back in action at Armadale on Friday.

Co-promoter John Campbell was pleased to have a visit from Aaron at his home on Saturday afternoon and was amazed that Aaron was able to walk from his car to the house, admittedly with some restricted movement.

Aaron said, "Initially, after the crash, I didn't have any feeling in my leg and I feared the worst but as the feeling returned and I was able to move my leg I knew I hadn't broken anything. I'll heal fairly quickly but my kevlars were not so lucky. They were cut off and now they are only good for the bucket. I'm told that there was some fundraising going on in the stadium to help me replace them and I'm very grateful for that and any help that I can get. There's some damage to the bike as well that I'll have to fix. Some bits to straighten and some to replace."

We'll update on Aaron's progress later in the week but his target at the moment is very much to be back in action on Friday.