James Toseland
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"James Michael Toseland" is an English former motorcycle racer. Toseland was the List of Superbike World champions/World Superbike Champion on a Ten Kate Racing/Ten Kate Honda, and also won the Superbike World Championship on a Ducati Motor Holding/Ducati. He is one of only two men, the other being Troy Corser, to have won the World Superbike Championship for two different manufacturers. On 9 September 2011 he officially retired from professional motorsport due to a wrist injury sustained in March 2011 at an official World Superbike Championship testing session at Motorland Aragon, Spain.

Aside from racing, Toseland is a keen pianist (reaching Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music/Grade 6) and singer-songwriter who, until recently, performed regularly with his band Crash at gigs across the world. However, Toseland is also a talented solo artist and in the past has performed alongside Ray Stubbs for BBC's Sport Relief and played a piano set at the British sports personality of the year awards in 2007.

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I took a big hit this morning, I felt like I got punched by Mike Tyson, but I was a little lucky and now I feel better. I also hope Karl will feel better soon. That was really a difficult test. We found some difficulties during the long turn. We don't have good grip and that's where we lose most of our time; we're not capable of using all the power we have. I guess we just have to work hard.

I didn't make a mistake, but Troy just out-braked me into the hairpin.