Jorge Martín passes through the operating room

The Spanish pilot Jorge Martín (Aprilia), current world champion of MotoGP, has been operated on Tuesday in Barcelona of the fractures in the left hand that occurred by a fall while training on Monday, has confirmed his team, which he has not offered An approximate recovery date.

“Jorge Martín has been operated at the Dexeus clinic in Barcelona by Professor Mir and his team. The intervention has been successfully completed, with the implementation of two screws at the level of the radio fracture and one at the level of the left escaphoid for its stabilization and to facilitate the healing process.

The Madrid was preparing for the inaugural Grand Prix of Thailand, which will be played this weekend in the Chang’s international circuit, when he suffered a fall that caused several fractures in his left hand. The incident will prevent you from participating in the first date of the season.

Martín already had to be intervened by Dr. Xavier Mir at the beginning of February after suffering a double fracture of the head of the fifth metacarpal of the right hand and the third, fourth and fifth metatarsals of the left foot during the first day of the test of the test of Sepang, in Malaysia, who made him miss most of the preseason tests.

Aprilia said that in the next few days the prognosis will be evaluated based on the clinical status of the Madrid, although it will be predictably several weeks without being able to get on the motorcycle.

On Monday, Aprilia confirmed that his test pilot, the Italian Lorenzo Savadori, would replace the current world champion in the first test of the season, forming a team with the transalpine Marco Bezzecchi.