MotoGP rookie Alex Rins in on his way back to Europe where he wil🐼l undergo surgery onꦫ his broken wrist later this week.

The Suzuki rider, already recovering from an ankle fracture from a motocross training accident, suffered⛄ a double fracture of his lower🏅 left arm when he was one of eight riders to fall in a chaotic FP3 at COTA.

Rins will undergo surgery at the University Hospital Dexไeus in Barcelona, after which a better idea of his re⛦covery time will be known.

"It's been a very tough weekend," Rins said. "This is a special track where I have aꦿlways found myself pretty comfortable, and I enjoyed riding a lot, but this grand prix instead♛ has been complicated. We have paid very dearly for Saturday's fall. Now that we have accepted it, we can begin the recovery.

"The team is giving me exceptional support and I hope soon to start giving them back some joy so that we can all get rid of this bitter taste in our mouths. Now it's time to go ba♛ck home, wait for the arm?s swelling to reduce, and undergo surgery. I'm not thinking about recovery time as much as coming back at 100%."

Rins is set to miss the first of his ཧhome Spanish MotoGP rounds at Jerez from May 5-7.

Team-mate Andrea🎉 Iannone scored his first points of the sea⛎son with seventh in Sunday's race.