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Roadracing World’s Chris Ulrich was scheduled to undergo surgery today at the hands of orthopedic surgeon Art Ting, at Ting’s Fremont, California clinic.

Ulrich lost the front and crashed in the chicane at Daytona late Thursday afternoon, in very cold conditions, after a stop on pit lane for adjustments.

His right collarbone broke at the point where it had been drilled to allow a donor tendon to be threaded through during shoulder surgery last year.

Dr. Ting was scheduled to install a plate on the broken collarbone and also remove a plate in Ulrich’s left leg, broken in November.

But after Ulrich arrived at the clinic this morning, Dr. Ting examined X-rays and decided not to plate the collarbone, which he said was not displaced, and not to remove the plate in the leg, either.

Ulrich said he was greatly relieved at the news.