The Althea BMW Racing Team is pleased to confirm that rider Markus Reiterberger will be back in action ahead of this weekend’s Round 10 of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship, alongside his teammate Jordi Torres. Reiterberger was forced to sit out of the US round at Laguna Seca after sustaining a compression fracture to his D12 vertebra during the second race at the Pirelli Riviera de Rimini Round in Misano.

WorldSBK teammate Jordi Torres and STK1000 representative Rafaele De Rosa had a chance to test at the Laustizring ahead of the Pirelli German Round in late July. Unfortunately, Reiterberger was unable to take part in those tests and will look to rely heavily on the information gained by his team at the test, ahead of this weekend’s race.

Reiterberger will be pushing to score as many points as possible in a bid to return to form, during the final chapters of the 2016 season. He is currently 12^th in the Championship standings behind teammate Torres in seventh.

“I must say that, despite the forced break, I’m feeling really good”, Said Reiterberger ahead of the weekend. “I’m really looking forward to Lausitzring as it’s my home race of season, I’ve got many fans and my family, friends and sponsors all coming so it should be great. The last weeks have not been easy for me. It’s the most serious injury I’ve had, so I’ve done a lot of physio and have worked with the doctors to be able to come back as soon as possible, after 2.5 months. I don’t feel exactly as I did before the crash but I feel good and think I can do two good races this weekend. First I have to get the feeling back with my BMW and then, step by step, improve over the course of the weekend. I’m a little bit nervous, and it won’t be easy after such a long break, but I’m really looking forward to it.”

Markus Reiterberger will join his WorldSBK compatriots on track on Friday the 16^th of September at 10:15 local time (GMT+2) for Free Practice 1 ahead of his first race back since injury.