Although the RNF Aprilia was delighted with the results of his post-Jerez arm 🅷pump surgery, he had been ill in the run-up to the Mugello weekend, then suf🌳fered two heavy falls on Saturday.

After shadowing factory Aprilia star M🧸averick Vinales through the field for the opening eleven laps, Fernandez’s began to feel tired and then, literally, sick.

"I’m really happy with my arm,” he began. “The be❀st thing that I did was to h🎶ave surgery.

“But after yesterday's🅰 crꦗash, I felt very bad in the race.

"At the beginning I was behind Maverick, Oliveira and we were catching to Aleix on some൲ lap📖s.

“I don't know why, but in the middle of the race, I started to feel very baꦫd, very bad, very bad. I don't know if it’s because of the crash or for the [painkilling] pill but I vomited on the bike.”

F🔯ernandez reached 💞the finish of the 23 laps but faded back to 17th.

“I tried until the end of the race, but I was riding bad. Going wide. My body was not good. I was🤪 super tired,” he explained.

“MotoGP is super competitive now. And if you are not at 100% or you don't train at 100%, you w🍃ill be in the shit.

“On Monday, Tuesday I felt bad at home [with flu]. Then I had two big ꦬcrashes. I started to take pills. And today I felt bad with my body. Now I feel super tired and I have a heada🌠che.”

Fernandez cancels summer break, will train like ‘an animal’

The former Moto2 title runner-up revealed he and RNF are now treating the upcoming events, on consecutive weekends at Sachsenring ꦫand Assen, as a kind of pre-season, with the goal of being back to full physical strength after the s🎀ummer break in Silverstone.

“I want to say sorry to the team, but we will have some o🍒pportunities in future and I will tell you now our target is to go to Silverstone 100% because we will have the summer breꦚak to prepare very well,” Fernandez said.

“I think the Sachsenring will be a good track for us but the important thing is arrive at Silverstone at 100%. I w🌌ill prepare like an animal&ওnbsp;and [hope] not to have these f**king stupid things that meant I couldn't train like normal.

“This is not the pre-season, but we will take it like a pre-season to recover our speed until we arrive to summer break. Then I will not do a summer break. I will go to train and prepare very we🅠ll for the second part of the year.”

Team-mate Miguel Oliveira, returning from a dislocated and fractured shoulde꧅r at Jerez, crashed out halfway through the grand prix.

“I‘m happy that I was back. It was a weekend where the progression was there. I had speed, I had theꦿ pace. ♔I just couldn’t finish the race, which was a shame,” said the Portimao, who qualified 18th and was in 13th when he crashed.

“I saw myself in a position where I coul🍬d maybe challenge for the top 10 and I was very hopeful I could do it. At the end, this was [only] my second long race this year and I’m happy that I managed to do at 🦩least half of it and be competitive.

“The good thing is, we have another race next weekend. Then we can hopefully turn thin🧔gs around and give the whole cr♌ew the result that they deserve.”

Oliveira hasꦓ finished twelfth in thr Sprint when Fernandez was 19th.