2005 AMA Superstock Champion Aaron Yates fractured his right shoulder blade when he crashed his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superstock bike during AMA team testing Tuesday morning at California Speedway. “We were testing some stuff. We had made some adjustments to the shock,” Yates told Roadracingworld.com Tuesday evening in the paddock of California Speedway. The Georgian had exited turn nine and was driving down the infield straightaway and toward the revised-in-2005 turn 10/11 chicane (which is now more of a kink than a chicane) when he came upon Team M4 EMGO Suzuki development rider Shea Fouchek, who was making his first lap of the day on his new GSX-R600 Supersport bike. “I could tell that guy was on a 600, and he was way off the line out there,” said Yates. “I felt like I could get in there and get by him. He started coming down and coming down. I was trying to go tighter and tighter, and I ended up collecting a cone pretty good and brushing him a little. I got into a big, nasty tankslapper. I was headed out there for that big wall of haybales and stuff out by that bridge, and I had to get off. I just let go of it because it was swapping so big.” Yates was not immediately rushed to the hospital. Instead, he was taken to be examined by Dr. Thomas Bryan, a local orthopedic surgeon who has recently operated on Mat Mladin and Damon Buckmaster. Dr. Bryan confirmed the fracture with X-rays and an MRI, and Yates was back at the track before the end of the day. “We’re getting the stuff to Dr. (David) Kieffer to see what he thinks,” continued Yates, referring to the surgeon he has worked with for most of his injuries during his racing career, “but it looks like we might just let it sit. I just hope everything’s going to work out and I can go to Daytona and try to go fast, but the main thing is to try and get some points.”