Michel Fabrizio is just three points 🧸adrift of a top five position in the overall World Superbike Championship standings after claiming a pair💦 of fourth place finishes at Brno, despite battling excruciating pain in his foot.

The Italian🦩 has been suffering with a cyst between the toes on his right foot through the weekend, but while Fabrizio was forced to take a pain-killin🉐g injection before the races, he struggled to put pressure on the right foot-peg.

Despite this, the Suzuki Alstare rider enjoyed a competitive day of racing, finishing just off the po𒀰dium in fourth position for both races, results that leave him poised t♓o crack the top five in the overall standings.

"I am happy to get two fourth places today considering all things," he said. "I have raced here before with a broken collarbone, but that pain was nothing lik𝄹e my right foot today. Every time I pushed down hard on the right foot-peg I was in agony, and, as this circuit is a clockwise one, there are a lot of right turns. I couldn't push as hard as normal in the right-handers a⛄nd that prevented me from going any quicker.

"I was happy with my bike set-up and enjoyed the races🦋 - apart from the pain of course. I used the same bike and tyres for both races and the only thing we did was a small adjustment to improve the grip. The grip was better in the♚ second race, but once the front three had pulled out a gap, I found it difficult to catch them. But all-in-all, I'm pretty happy with my results today."

Fabrizio is currently seventh overal🌊l, level on points with Leon Camier and three points fifth place Leon Haslam.