• Update on Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini injuries after Catal𓂃unya MotoGP

Bagnaia highsided on the first lap then, whe💙n he landed on the ground, his legs were struck by Brad Bin♛der’s KTM.

He was rushed away to hospital but it ha🦩s since been co🌸nfirmed that he suffered no major damage.

“I had a lot of luck today. I have to be thankf🍬ul,” Bagnaia said as he left hospital in Barcelona on crutches.

“Sometimes you need to have luck.”

Asked how he highsided, Bagnaia rep♛lied: “I don’t know. I had very low grip on the warm-up lap.

“And I just took a very big hit. It🔯 was not a normal highside.

“༒It’s very hard to understand wha🍎t happened at the moment.

“For sure, it wasn’t a normal crash.

“The rear grip that I had in the w🐠arm-upꦏ lap wasn’t normal.”

Astonishingly the factory Ducati rider could rꦗeturn to continue the defence of his MotoGP champ𒁏ionship next weekend.

“We’ll do everything we can to be in Misano♌, and to do w♍ell,” he said.

Bagnaia remains at the summit of the MotoGP standings, aiming fꦕor a second titl𒐪e in a row.

His teammate Enea Bastianini, though, will need surgery after a separate c🍷rash at the Catalunya MotoGP just mom🤡ents before Bagnaia’s.

Every rider dedicated theওir🗹 performance to Bagnaia as he lay in hospital post-race, with Marc Marquez insisting that the entire sport was lucky that no serious harm came to him.

Bagnaia was abl🥃e to fly back to Italy on ♚Sunday night.