Aprilia: Jorge Martin’s Sepang crash ‘not a bike issue, not a rider mistake’
“A bad crash for apparently no reason..."

Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says there was “no mistake on bike side and no mistake on his side” in regards to the crash that has potentially ended 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin’s MotoGP pre-season.
The reigning world champion crashed twice on the opening day🗹 of testing at Sepang on Wednesday, with the second at Turn 2 a vicious highside that left him with m⭕ultiple fractures.
Martin will spend the night in hospital before returning to Europe for surgery, throwing his participation in next week’s Buriram test into♛ serious doubt.
Rivola says Aprilia’s d𝔍ata showed there was nothing wrong with Martin’s bike and that he was not on the gas when the crash happened, while his tyres were in the correct working window.
The crash happened on the same tyres, according to Rivola, though he st⭕opped short ꦍof blaming Michelin.
This was 's awful highside in his first hours with the number 1 plate 💢
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He's at the hospital undergoing tests due to left foot and right hand pain. Updates will follow and in the🥂 meantime, we're sending our best wishes to the World Champ 💪
“Obviously, this is a problem,” Rivola said.
“A🎉 bad crash for apparently no reason, with no mistake on bike side and no mistake on his side.”
Asked if both of Martin’s crashes were similar, he added: “This✱ is interesting because it was with the same set of tyres.
“The first one was on the right. And the 🥃second one was on the left.
“But the medium tyre is asymmetric. So, if on the right one you say the medium is not the best one, then if you turn on the right then the medium should be softer on that 🎃side.
“So, I’ll leave it to you to get more info.”
Rivola says A🐼prilia will put test rider Lorenzo Savadori on the bike for the rest of the test and admits Martin’s first proper day on the RS-GP 2025 could be FP1 at 🐟the Thailand GP.
“So the programme is the following: 24 hours in the hospital as proto𒊎col,” heꦆ said.
“Tomorrow, he will be out of the🐷 hospital. The 𓂃day after he flies to Europe to get the surgery.
“Then after that let’s see how the body reacts and recovers. The very good news is the concussion is negative,💝 that’s the most important thing to be honest.
“Today is aꦰ lucky day watching the crash. After that, we are confident to have him for race one🐟.
“We saw Jorge and many𒀰 other riders doing miꦺracles, so why not see him in Thailand.
“I think anyway in Thailand we will bring Sava too as a back-up toꦉ do more testing, but it’s going tꦕo be tough.
“There could be the chance that𒅌 his [Martin] first time with 25 bike is in FP1.”
Martin🅰 wasn’t the only Aprilia rider taken o🌠ut of the test with injury, as Trackhouse’s Raul Fernandez suffered a fracture to his left hand in a crash.
Trackhouse team boss Davide Brivio says Fernandez’s fall was “a bit st🎀range” as he wasn’t pushing hard.
Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren
