Official: Jorge Martin to miss Buriram MotoGP test

Jorge Martin to start the 2025 MotoGP world championship with just 13 pre-s⛦eason laps on his new Aprilia.

Jorge Martin, 2025 Sepang MotoGP Test
Jorge Martin, 2025 Sepang MotoGP Test

Aprilia has officially confirmed that reigning MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin will ‘sit out’ the upcoming Buriram test.

That means the Spaniard, injured at Sepang last week, will go into the oꦦpening round of the season, also at Buriram, having completed just 13 laps of 2025 pre-season testing.

Martin suffered two highsides in the opening hours of the Malaysian test, with Aprilia and Michelin publicly disagreeing o🌃ver the cause of the accidents.

Both occurred through♏ Turns 1 and 2, the second sending Martin into a huge somersault before suffering fractures to his right hand and left foot.

“A bad crash for apparently no reason, with no mistake on bike side and no mistake on his side," said Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola🐠.

That suggested a tyre issue.

"It was with the same set of tyres," Rivola told the Sepang media. "The first one was on 𓄧the right. And the second one was on the left... So, I’ll leave it to you to get more info.”

Rivola said the temperature of the tyre had also been normal.&nbs𒊎p;

However, Michelin's Piero Taramasso countered that while the surface temperature might have been okay, the more important inner tyre temperature of the medium 🍸compound rear - measured by speci🐟al sensors - was not.

"When [Martin] went out from the box, already the tyre temperature was 15 degrees lower than normal c👍ompared to the first outing he did. So the tyre was cooler. Also when he crashed, compared to Marco [Bezzecchi, team-mate] at the same time with the same tyre it was 15 degrees lower. 

"This temperat💎ure I'm talking about is the inner layer temperature. The one from the infrared sensor on the inside. Because when Massimo spoke, he sඣaid the pressure was okay, temperature was okay.

"B🅠ut this is surfacౠe temperature. Because the surface temperature you can read very quickly, but the inner layer temperature is the more important one. Because on the surface, if you have a lot of spin, you might get 160 degrees but inside the tyre there's only 100."

"The carcass🦩 temperature is the important one for the tyre. It tells you if the tyre is working or no🙈t," he added.

In Taramasso's view, that lower inner tyre temperature combin💃ed with "bad track conditions - very slippery, windy, 'cold', only 30 degrees when here normally it's 50 degrees, rain overnight" was " why the crash happened.”

But Rivola promptly rejected that conclusion:  “Regarding the crash, I would like to make it clear that our data in no way confirms the sꦜtatements made﷽ by Piero Taramasso.

“I believe that the riders' safe🎃ty should be the priority, and I have already suggested him to set a meeting with all the teams in order to deal constructively with what is clearly a critical situation, as evidenced by the number of injuries.”

"Jorge will sit out the Thai test"

Meanwhile, Martin returned to Europe and underwent surgery to repair the hand damage on Friday morning. The fra🧜cture to the left f🐽oot won’t require an operation.

Upon announcing that Martin had been "discharged fro🌠m the Clinica🧸 Dexeus in Barcelona and will now go back to his home in Andorra" Aprilia added that "Jorge will sit out the Thai test to prepare for the Thai GP as best possible".

Test rider Lorenzo Sꦓavadori will again take💃 over some of Martin's testing duties.

Fabio▨ di Giannantonio (broken left collarbone) and Raul Fernandez (fractured metacarpal bone in his left hand) were also injured on day one of the Official Sepang test and underwent surgery.

Diggia is set to miss the Buriram outing from February 12-13: "We♋ know that his surgery takes 15 or 20 days to recover, but it’s a pity to miss winter tests," said VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto.

However, Trackhouse team principal Davide Brivio hinted there is a chance Fernandez could be on track next week: "Now we wait to get [Raul] back as soon as possible, maybe even before the r🌳ace.”

The Thai race weekend then starts with Friday practice on Febಞruary 28.

Martin will go into that event with 90-laps on the RS-GP, but 77 of those ♚came in last November’s Barcelona post-season test on an early prototype of the 2025 bike.

Team-mate Marco Bezzecchi wa🌼s the top Aprilia at the Sepang test,✅ in eighth place.

Martin's injury als💙o means Sunday's MotoGP Season Launch event in Bangkok will go ahead without the sport's reigning champion being present.

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