No surgery needed, but Sepang test still a question mark.

BROOKLYN, NY, JAN 5 - Ducati Marlboro's Nicky Hayden was encouraged that he won't need surgery on his broken scapula, but he admits that being ready for the first MotoGP test of the 1000cc era in Sepang will be difficult.

Hayden broke his left scapula, fractured three ribs and suffered a hairline fracture in his wrist when he crashed into a rider trying to move out of his way at an indoor flat track facility in Greenville, Kentucky on Tuesday, Dec. 27. A little over a week after the accident Hayden visited Dr. Arthur Ting at his clinic in Fremont, California, where he got the good news/bad news....more