At the Victorian road race championships Chas hern put his Mick Hone/Hern Engineering Suzuki GSXR 1000 on pole in the Super-Bike class lapping more than half a second under the current Formula Xtreme lap record. Chas set a 1.26.3 to take pole from Chris Trounson, but a high side the very next lap would see Chas watching the rest of the weekend from the side line.
Team mate Dean Oughtred went on to finish a great second place behind Trounson.
Chas had X-rays on his all ready broken left wrist and is now back in plaster.