Franco Morbidelli: “I want to see how I feel on the bike” at Le Mans MotoGP
Franco Morbidelli awaits medical clearance to ride 𝄹at French MotoGP after neck injury at Jerez.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli is aiming to return to action at this weekend’s French MotoGP, but the VR46 Ducati rider must first pass a mandatory me꧅dical check on Thursday at Le Mans folloꦛwing his heavy crash in the Spanish Grand Prix.
“I feel better, but I want to🐻 see how I feel on the bike. I'm looking forward to carrying out our clean work program and having the two races at our best,” he said.
Morbidelli was stretchered away from his s꧒econd heavy fall of the weekend and later diagnosed with a “neck contusion”, ruling him out of Monday’s official post-race test.
The incident also brought an end to Morbidelli’s perfect🍌 2025 run of points finishes, leaving Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia as the only riders to have scored in all ten races so far this season.
Despite the DNF, Morbidelli retains fourth in the world championship standings, although his advantage over team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio di Giannantonio has narrowed to 21 points.
“Le Mans is another really important race for us. We are looking for continuing our great pace and speed, so the goal is to do a really goo🌜d job there,” said Morbidelli.
“I like the track, last year I had a nice comeback [to seventh] in the main race, so I’m confident looking a🌺t the track.”
While Morbidelli was sidelined, di Giannantonio joined Bagnaia and Marc Marquez in evaluating updates for the factory-spec GP25 durin𝓡g the Jerez test.
“Le Mans is a beautiful historic track, where you go fast and there is a lot of braking. I thin🌳k we will be able to use already in 🐼France the solutions we found in the Jerez test,” di Giannantonio said.
“So, I'm curious to see how the 🍸bike updates will be. In Le Mans we can do really well, last year we fought for the podium, then there w🦹ill be a lot of fans and a lot of energy. So we will have fun.”
Ducati has been unbeaten at Le Mans for the past five years, with independent riders winning for the past three years: Gresini’s Enea Bastianiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚꩲᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚni in 2022, VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi in 2023 and Pramac’s Jorge Martin in 2024.
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