Three broken bones, but two MotoGP riders are plotting a quick comeback
Timelines on injury recoveries revealed
Fabio di Giannantonio and Raul Fernandez are hopeful of quick comebacks despite the injuries sꩵustained in the past few days.
VR46’s Di Giannant🌠onio and Trac🌃khouse’s Fernandez broke bones during the official MotoGP Sepang test.
Bo🤪th riders were ruled out for the rest of the test, and required surgeries to fix the damage.
Di Giannantonio fract🅺ured his collarbone, while Fernandez suffe🉐red a metacarpal bone break in his left hand and a broken toe.
But they m♈ight both be back on a bike earlier🦩 than expected.
"I think Fabio will have surgery ove🌱r the weekend,” VR46’s Uccio Salucci explained to Sky Italy.
“I expect to see him again in Buriram, not 🉐for next week's t🐈est of course but for the race.”
Fernandez has already gone under the knife.
“First of all, thanks to Xavier Mir, who, as always, treats mౠe the best,” Fernandez posted.
“Now it’s time for me to recover and trဣy to go to Thailand. Thank you all for your me🍌ssages of support!”
The season-openi🎃ng Thailand MotoGP is February 28-March 2.
It means Di Giannantonio and Fernandez ha💯ve three weeks to recover.
But, during that time they will miss the Buriram preseason ൩test and will therefore arrive for t🅺he first race - if they’re able to - at a big disadvantage compared to their rivals.
James was a spo🏅rts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
