Randy de Puniet is hopefu🐎l that he will be absent for just one MotoGP event as he begins the recovery process from a broken tibia and fibula.

The Frenchman fell from his LCR Honda during t💝he German Grand Prix, de Puniet proceeding to be clipped by Pramac Ducati's Mika Kallio at considerable speed.

Later confirmed as having broken his leg, de Puniet successfully underwent surgery a day after the race and has been given a time scale of🐬🙈 around six weeks to recover.

Luckily for him, the impending summer break could ensure that he misses just a single race - this weekend's United States Grand Prix - before returning to action in the Czech Republic.

"As riders we always risk crashing and breaking something, but it's always when you are not thinking about crashing th♔at you do. After the crash when Kalio involuntarily hit my leg I immediately understood that I had a serious problem.

"The surgery went very well and now I am feeling better. I want to thank Doctor Costa and all the medical staff here for the good job they did. They say🌟 that I need 6 𝓀weeks recovery period to start racing again but I will try my best to be back in Brno."

de Puniet will be replaced by Roger Lee Hayden f🌸or the Laguna Sec🐭a race.