MotoGP Germany: Takaaki Nakagami: My hand was trapped under the handlebar

The LCR Honda rider missed three races last sea🌠son after injuring the hand when he tangled with Marc Marquez at Aragon.
That same hand became trapped under the handlebar when Nakagami slid off at highspeed tꦕhrough the Waterfall corner on Friday, with his RC213V then being heavily damaged as it cartwheeled through the air.
“I’m okay. Not 100%, but we did an X-ray and there's no fracture,” Nakagami said. “So this i꧙s really, really good news. But as you know last season I did a couple of times surgery on the fingers and unfortunately when I lose the front at Turn 11 my hand was under the ha🌳ndlebar.
“A big impact and a bit o﷽f sharp pain at that 💖moment, but looks from outside that it's OK. A little bit [inflamed], but I need to be really careful because I don't want to get the injury even worse.
“So at the moment I cannot say for tomorrow, but I will try to recover and be ready for tomorrow's session𓃲. But depends how I feel tomorrow morning.”

Nakagami, who was using the new Kalex chassis for the first time on Friday, explained that the medium front ty🐷re was not the best choice🎶 in the conditions.
“Before the crash, already the right side a little bit tricky. And then t꧟he next lap I was, even going slowly, but I just lose the front.
“I cannot say that it was🧸 because of the bike. It was like a ty🅰pical [Turn 11 accident] Just the right side was a bit too low temperature and lose the front. So now the mechanics try to build up again the bike.
“I♒ mean, chassis was fine, so this was good news. So at least we can prepare the same as this morning, with one Kalex chassis, one my standard.”
With rain spots also interrupting practice, Nakagami isn’t yet sure which chassis he will race with in the Saturday afternoon s🦹p💮rint.
“We couldn't make many laps. So still I cannot decide, which one is good or not,” he said.
“The first impression was not a big positive feeling for me. And so still we need to find a balance, because today we are really bad feeling in the front and 🅺also the rear grip was terrible.
“As you can see with Marc, the bike is always moving. It w🎶as the same feeling [for me]. So we will try to find a solution and a little bit better performance♏ tomorrow.”
Marquez was 14th quickest, after a scary col🌳lision with Johann Zarco, with Nakagami 18th.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and൲ go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.