Injured wingless sprint driver Alex Ross aims for Ken Willsher Classic return

The Mailors Flat driver was hurt in a rollover at Simpson Speedway on Saturday and spent a night in hospital with bruised lungs and a compressed spine.

But the emerging driver is eager to return to the track in a formula 500 on April 27 at Laang.

"I am still keen. Health comes first though. If I am not right to race, I won't race," Ross said.

"But that's what I plan to do. I am pretty excited to race that event.

"I have to get a medical certificate to race again off a doctor. I have a couple of appointments this week with my GP to go over it all and get re-tested."

Ross was jostling for position in a heat race when he made contact with a passing car and started rolling.

"The initial roll itself wasn't too bad until the end of it when it landed on its roof and my head hit the track and that's when all the pain started," he said.

"The chassis sunk into the clay a fair way and I hit the track.

"Once I got tipped back over on my wheels, I started to get a bit dizzy and a blood nose.

"I started getting a really bad headache and the safety crew and the ambulance thought they'd treat it as a broken neck."

Ross was taken to Warrnambool Base Hospital as a precautionary measure and had CT scans and ultrasounds.

"I had a bit of blood in my lungs and bruised lungs and compressed my spine and neck and some old injuries I had in my lower back flared up a bit," he said.

"The blood nose had me worried a little bit as to why because I hit my head on the top of my helmet but nothing hit my nose. I was confused as to why my nose was bleeding."

Ross, who will attend the Speedway Australia rising stars program at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra next week, said his equipment saved him from further damage.

"Thanks to Cool Chassis, they built a really good car and I was protected really well and Performance Racegear have provided me with seatbelts and safety equipment which was really good," he said.

"Our car is actually 2.5 or three inches taller than your standard chassis. Because my car owner is so tall so he had to custom make, so I am lucky I have so much more head clearance than anyone else because it could have been worse."

Ross, who won the Australian wingless sprint title at Premier Speedway in February, said the incident had not deterred him.

"This is my first real accident in racing," he said.

"I haven't had a rollover or anything before, maybe a spinout and have hit a wall in the juniors but I wouldn't count that.

"It wasn't that hard of a crash to scare me, it's just the way it landed was unlucky to hurt me.

"It was a credit to Simpson Speedway and the crash crew and ambulance there, they did a really good job."

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