Franco Morbidelli: “Nothing negative” about return to scene of scary crash

Franco Morbidelli explains his feeling about returning to Portimao af😼ter his recent accident

Franco Morbidelli, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March
Franco Morbidelli, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli returns ಌto Portimao this ♏weekend, the scene of his concerning crash during preseason.

Morbidelli lost control of a Panigale V4S in Ja♛nuary at the track in Portugal, and was hospitalised after being knocked unconscious.

As a result, he missed the entirety of MotoGP preseason testing ꦓand was forced to use the season-opening round in Qatar as𒅌 practice on his Ducati.

This weekend’s Portuguese MotoGP, the second round of the 2024 seasඣon, offers Morbidelli his next chance to adjust to his ne🌠w Pramac Ducati team.

“There is nothing negative ♌about approaching this track,” Morbidelli s🦂aid when remembering his recent crash.

“T൲he first reason is ♋because this track is beautiful.

“I had an accident, yes. A serious accide♈nt. But s🔥uch a strange accident.

“An unreplicable ✱accident. Technically, iℱt cannot affect my thinking.

“It was something difficult to happen again.

“Also, because I am doing what I love to do.

“There is nothing to slow my pജrogress down at 𝕴this track.”

Morbidelli’s physical recovery from his crash in January has largely ꦿconcluded meaning he can ramp up his progress on the GP24, albeit later than any of his MotoGP rivals.

He said about Portimao this weekend: “We will keep going for our acclimatisation to 🉐the new bike, but with much more confidence than in Qatar.

“I had a normal c♌ouple of weeks at home, and I had the chance to ride bikes. The confidence 🎃is much more.

“We approach this weekend💧 knowing that we have ground to recover.

“The confidence is the f🔴act that I did two normal weeks, when I was home, instead🌃 of the recovery weeks that I did between the accident and the first race.

“I had zer🦹o tests. Everything I went through, generally, in that 🌼period…”

He added about the past fortnight since Qatar: “I was willing to start normal training as soon as possib♏le. I felt good.

“My body reacted 🅠very ꦑwell. I am really pleased by that.”

Morbidelli was asked about his earliest indications about the GP24, wh✅ich Pecco Bagnaia won the Qatar MotoGP with, and which his teammate Jorge Martin rode to victor🐈y in the sprint.

He replied: “It needs to be ridden fast!

“Pecco and Jorge r༺ide in faster than every other Ducati. It needs to 🥀be ridden in that way.”

Morbid🌟elli also enters the Portuguese MotoGP after ne﷽ws that Ducati have signed up Fermin Aldeguer for 2025.

It is expected, but unc🐷onfirmed, that Aldeguer will be placed in the Pramac team.

Martin’s future is expected to be elsewhere, either at the factory D📖ucati team or a rival manufactu𝓰rer.

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