Fast By Ferracci MV Agusta factory Superbike rider Matt Lynn lost part of the little finger on his right hand in a crash while testing March 20 at Barber Motorsports Park, but the young Georgia rider will be ready to race at round two of the AMA Superbike Championship in April. Lynn, along with his Italian teammate Luca Scassa, participated in their first true test (a multi-team test) of their Dunlop-shod MV Agusta F4-1000R 312 Superbikes March 19-20, in Alabama, and things were going relatively well until the second day. “We had a really good set-up on the bike and we were dialing it in,” Lynn told Roadracingworld.com in a telephone interview March 21. “Every time I went out it was getting better. We decided to try to do a race simulation on the second day. Everything was going good. I was turning some low-to-mid-1:27s and doing alright. “On lap 12, I came up through three where the crest of the hill is and the back end got stepped out a little bit. It just kept stepping out more, so I kind of rolled out of the gas. When I did that it snapped back. It happened really fast and bumped me out of the saddle a little bit and got into a real bad headshake, from lock-to-lock. “I ended up going down on the right side. I pinched the tip of my right pinky finger off. I went to the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center. There was no bone left from the first knuckle down, so they couldn’t attach anything or do anything. And when I first got up I knew it was bad and there was no way to fix it. They cleaned it up really good and stitched it up and sent me on my way. In two weeks the stitches come out.” Lynn said he was going to seek a further evaluation from his local orthopedic surgeon near his home in Ballground, Georgia but should be ready to race at round two of the AMA Superbike series April 20-22 at Barber Motorsports Park. A silver lining in the incident was the fact that Lynn did not hit any hard objects. Lynn may have hit an Armco barrier, the same barrier that Roger Hayden hit and broke his leg on last year, if the barrier had not been moved at the request of the riders during the off-season. Relocating the wall was one of several safety enhancements that Barber Motorsports Park made last year at the request of AMA riders.