Valencia MotoGP: Alex Rins "pain free" but full recovery "9-10 months"
But the Spaniard, switching t💖o Monster Yamaha for 2024, has been told it could take until next March or April for his leg fractures to fully heal.
Rins suffered the injuries at Mugello in June, but then require🎐d further surgery due to ongoing pain upon his return i💎n the recent flyaway rounds.
"During myꦍ last GP in Australia, we did an x-ray in Melbou♕rne on Saturday morning because I was feeling a lot of muscular pain in my leg,” Rins said.
“It looked like I h🐻ad a hernia so we flew directly to Madrid to make a surgery to improve this pain. They operated in the m♏orning, and at night I left the hospital.
“The doctors did a fantastic job. I walked home as the pain improv൲ed☂ immediately!
“This last month I’ve been working a🍒s hard as possible at home to be here in Valencia.
“It’s a s👍hame it is the last race because now I’m feeling more or less better than before. Anyway, we have♛ this weekend to enjoy and to ride, and to say goodbye to LCR.
“It is an amazing team, we had a very difficult season with in♍jury, but we did a great result in Austin to get the victory."
Rins, who won last year’s Valencia fina🐎le for Suzuki, recently tested the condition of his right leg during a track day in Barcelona.
"I rode the production bike in Montmelo. It was quite nice. Montmelo has the right then left and the💜n the long right corner and I had zero pain,” he said. “We need to remember it is a production bike and not a MotoGP bike, the power and brakes are not the same, but it was ඣa great test."
Nonetheless, it could take until the 2024 season opener ✨i🐼n Qatar on March 10 for his leg to fully recover.
“It was not a clean fracture. So to be at 100%, they said I nꦇeed nine to ten months to reco🔥ver everything but now we are in good shape,” Rins explained.
“The pain is very low during the day. I am wꦯalking perfectly. I think the next step is to jump on the bike, we have more muscle on the leg than before, so I think it is going to be ok."
Next Tuesday’s test will see Rins 💟ride his third different MotoGP bike in just ov༺er a year.
“I’m looking forward to it,” he said. “It’s a big challenge, because you change everything, y൲our team, your group, your crew chief, but I did it last year [also].”
Peter has b🍎een in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi 🌳come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
