Six-time World Champion motorcycle road racer Max Biaggi, age 45, was seriously injured Friday while riding Supermoto on a racetrack in his home country of Italy, according to reports in the Italian media and on the official website of the Superbike World Championship.

According to Italian website www.IlFattoQuotidiano.it, Biaggi was transported via medical helicopter from the track to a hospital in Rome, where hospital representatives have told the media that Biaggi is conscious, alert, responding to stimuli and that his injuries are not considered to be life threatening. Biaggi, however, is being treated in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for chest trauma and bone fractures.

Read the full report here: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/06/09/max-biaggi-incidente-pista-latina-il-pilota-al-padre-labbiamo-sfangata/3647661/

We will post updates as they become available.

Biaggi won the FIM Superbike World Championship in 2010 and 2012 and the FIM 250cc Grand Prix World Championship four straight years from 1994-1997. In addition, he was the runner-up in the 500cc/MotoGP World Championship three times (1998, 2001, 2002).