Juara Dunia sembilan kali MotoGP, Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha), akan cuba untuk bersaing pada hujung minggu ini di pusingan ke-14 di Aragon, Sepanyol.
Penunggang berusia 38 tahun dari Itali itu telah mendapat keputusan yang amat positif sesudah menjalani penilaian kecergasan di atas jentera Yamaha YZF-R1M di litar Misano World Circuit beberapa hari yang lalu.
Selepas hanya tiga minggu sejak dia mengalami kecederaan patah kaki, Rossi perlu meyakinkan para pegawai perubatan serta pegawai MotoGP jika dia merancang untuk menyertai semula persaingan gelaran MotoGP 2017 pada hari Ahad ini.
Nine-time MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha) will try to ride this weekend at the 14th round in Aragon, Spain.
The 38 year old Italian has had a very positive result following a fitness assessment on board the Yamaha YZF-R1M around the Misano World Circuit a couple of days ago.
After just three weeks since he sustained the broken leg, Rossi will need to convince MotoGP officials and medical staff if he plans to rejoin the 2017 MotoGP title chase this coming Sunday.
Our theories about motorcycle racers have been confirmed yet again, ladies and gentlemen. These folks are MENTAL. We found out that Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi will attempt to ride his competition Yamaha YZF-M1 at the 14th MotoGP round in Aragon, Spain this coming weekend. (more…)
Racers always have this advice: When in doubt, give it gas. But perhaps life has a sense of irony, because it seems that bad injuries happen when they’re riding slow, instead.
Many a times have we seen a crash where a rider was flung metres into the air and then down the track, only to get up and walk away unharmed, while his bike self-destructed by tumbling itself into pieces of carbon fibre and metal biscuits.
Yet, we’ve also witnessed innocuous-looking crashes when for example, the tyres slid out from underneath the rider but he had to be stretchered off into an ambulance.
Triple World Champion, “Mr. Perfect” Wayne Rainey’s tragic lowside at Misano in turned him into a paraplegic, and the late Nicky Hayden was fatally hit by a car while cycling on public roads.
And it’s the same for Valentino Rossi, although thankfully not as bad as the other two gentlemen.
He wasn’t racing when he had his enduro crash, “Unfortunately, I was with all my friends on an enduro bike, making a tour around the centre hills behind Urbino in the countryside. It’s a thing that I’ve done since I was 18 together with my father for a long, long time. Very close to the end, in one downhill section at very low speed, I lost the steering, and to not crash I put my foot on the ground. But it was a bit downhill, and all the weight of the bike went on my leg and it broke.”
Speaking during the Misano round, Rossi knows his hopes of returning to the track in three weeks after his surgery is unrealistic and has to concede the Aragon round as well. Rossi had suffered a similar injury in 2010. A broken leg a Mugello caused his to miss three rounds – resulting in his first missed races of his entire career. Jorge Lorenzo won his first MotoGP title that year.
It’s from that experience which Rossi drew his conclusion from. “I learned from the other time that in this phase of the recovery, you have to live day by day. It depends very much on how the leg feels, how much pain there is. We’re already working and we’re trying to come back as soon as possible though. The next race after Misano is Aragon, but I think it would have been very hard to be back for there because it’s 22 days after the injury – just three weeks.”
Rossi also added that he’ll be back in Motegi.
We first reported about Rossi’s accident here, and Michael Van Der Mark replacing Rossi at Motorland Aragon here.
Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) telah disahkan tidak akan mengambil bahagian dalam GP San Marino pada hujung minggu ini.
Ini bermakna yang Rossi tidak akan berlumba di perlumbaan halamannya disebabkan oleh kecederaan yang dialami pada kaki kanannya semasa satu sesi latihan enduro pada minggu lalu.
Rossi telah dinasihatkan untuk berehat sepenuhnya selama dua perlumbaan bagi memastikan kecederaannya pulih sepenuhnya sebelum dia dapat bersaing semula.
Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) has been confirmed that he won’t be taking part in this weekend’s San Marino GP.
This means that Rossi will miss his home race due to injuries sustained to his right leg during an enduro training session just last week.
It has been advised that Rossi will need to sit out of two races to make sure that his injuries heal completely before being able to take compete again.
It is with sad news that Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) will not be taking part in the next MotoGP round which is going to be held in Misano this weekend. Due to his leg injury and successful surgery to repair the fractured bones, “The Doctor” will miss his home race which will also land a huge blow to his 2017 MotoGP championship effort. (more…)
