Enea Bastianini

In the first-eve🦩r sprint race in Portimao, new factory Ducat♎i rider was sent flying in a crash involving Luca Marini.

A broken shoulder blade did not need sur🍸gery, but it has ruined Enea Bastianini’s season so far.

He aborted a comeback in Spa𓆏in after the pain felt during Friday practice was too much toꦚ overcome.

Purtroppo ho una f🅷rattura alla scapolaꦅ, ma la cosa bella sarà tornare in pista più forte di prima!

— Enea Bastianini (@Bestia23)

The injury meant Bastianini missed four grands prix, three total rounds, and hౠas completed just two out of eight Sunday races this year.

Pol Espargaro

The veteran has yet to appear in a Saturday𒅌 or a Sunday race in 2023 after major injuries sustained in the first Friday of the year.

Pol Espargaro had ♏a broken jaw, back injuries and lung♔ issues.

His jaw was fractured in two places and ✤was shut for four weeks, leaving him 🎃unable to eat afterwards.

“I had eight fractu🍌res in my body, two in my rib⛄s, one in my neck, three in my back,” he said.

Espargaro lost a l♓ot of weight through his hellacious recovery which is ongoing.

Aleix Espargaro

The Aprilia rider was reduced to tears in his box due to the pain from 🤡a freak cycling accident.

Aleix Espargaro “destroyed” his heel and also injured his back and arm when h♑e fell off his bicycle, because he was using his mobile phone, the day b♓efore the Italian MotoGP.

He described being in ꦅ“crazy pain”, and was visibly hobbling, throughout the weekend.

Marc Marquez

The Repsol Honda rider came through career-threat﷽ening arm surgery a year ago but, on the first weekend of 2023, sustained a new injury.

A crash into Miguel Oliveira resulted in a broken thumb, requiring ♛screws to be inserted to heal it, and causing him to miss three rounds.

A number of falls did no harm until a nightmare weekend at the Sachse🗹nring, where he crashed five times and was forced to withdraw from the grand prix with a fracture to his finger. He was also feeling the effects of several bruises after a punishing weekend.

A week later he “aggravated” those injuries at Assen, again withdrawing from Sunday’s race. He alsꦐo had a painful rib injury, it emerged.

Miguel Oliveira

The RNF Aprilia rider has certainly been unfortunate this year. His season 💃has been largely decimated by physical punishment.

Miguel Oliveira escaped a major🐻 injury when Marc Marquez smashed into him in Portimao, but he did sustain a leg injury and missed a round.

He then suffered a dislocated and frac🌺tured shoulder, plus ligament d♒amage, when he was wiped out by Fabio Quartararo in Spain.

Joan Mir

The Repsol Honda rider has been sidelined from the past six races, including sprints, due to a “a small bone infraction” on the little finger of his right hand. It was suff༒ered when crashing during practice at Mugello.

Previously, he missedꦚ the Argentina🍒 MotoGP after crashing a day earlier in the sprint.

Mir avoided a serious ankle injury but “significa𒀰nt discomfort and pain after the﷽ heavy impact” forced him to miss the grand prix.

Alex Rins

16 days and 2 surgeries later we are going home!
Those images explain the magnitude of crash and the amazing work of the doctors. It’s been hard but I will get back stronger fisically and mentally Thank you everybody for your messages and for taking care of me!

— Alex Rins (@Rins42)

A big fall in the sprint race at Mugello caused Alex Rins to 💯break hisඣ leg.

He required two surgeries to “his tibia and fibula immo꧙bilised through an external fixator”.

Rins has missed two rounds and faces a race against time to be fit f๊or Silverstone on August 6.

Fabio Quartararo

He needeಌd surgery on a fractured big toe which was bizarrely injured in a jogging accident. Two days later at the Dutch MotoGP, he hurt an elbow in a crash involving Johann Zarco. Q🐠uartararo needed painkillers to get through the Assen weekend.

Francesco Bagnaia

A collision with Maverick Vinales at Le Mans resulted in a small 🎉fracture to Francesco Bagnaia’s ankle. Fortunately the factory Ducati rider did not need to skip the Italian MotoGP - he arrived on crutches, but days later duly wo𝓀n the grand prix.

Alex Marquez

A colliꦚsion with Jorge Martin at COTA left Alex Marquez with a ruptured quadricep and a damaged ligameꦉnt in his leg.

“My leg was trapped between both bikes,” Marquez 🥀said although it ✤didn’t cause him to skip a round.

A bout of food poisoning also cauಌsed Marquez to vomit into his helmet i🍌n Texas.

A crash with Luca Marini at Le Mans was also a scary moment for Marque🍷z but he again escaped u🦹nharmed.

Fabio di Giannantonio

The Gresini rider became the firsཧt casualty of 2023 even before thꦇe racing had started.

In ⭕the Portimao test he suffered a concussion after crashing, stirring up a debate about the gravel traps at the circuit.

“Every year we complain about the gravel because ⭕they are like really big rocks and when you hit them it’s more painful than when you hit the asphalt,” he said.

Johann Zarco

One of the scariest moments of the season so far was when Zarco’s Ducati was torn in𝕴 half by Marc Marquez’s flying bike. The point of impact thankfully missed Zarco’s leg, and he was unhur♔t.

A cras꧟h with Fabio Quartararo at Assen resulte🐈d in a painful finger for Zarco.

Jorge Martin

The Pramac Racing rider was furious at Portimao when Marc Ma💎rquez clattered💮 into him, leaving him with a broken toe and an ankle injury.

“It’s not the 𝕴first time 🔥he has destroyed my race,” Jorge Martin fumed.

Maဣrtin later entered the COTA weekend “fee💟ling weak” due to illness.

Luca Marini

The Mooney VR46 rider was involved in a big smash with Alex Marquez at Le Mans, whichꦉ cost him an injured wrist. 

That problem was diagnosed as a fracture, but Marini battled on without skipping a round until discovering ad🌟ditional☂ ligament and tendon damage.

Raul Fernandez

Af🥂ter arm pump surgery, the RNF Aprilia rider attempted a swift return at Le Mans but was soon forced to pull out.

Augusto Fernandez

A terrifying crash in practice at Mugello was a scare but൲ Augusto Fernandez walked away unharmed.

Takaaki Nakagami

The only one of fou🐎r Honda riders to c🍸ompete at Assen, with his three colleagues all injured. But Nakagami has had a major scare himself this season.

He required an x-ray after the hand which was operated on twice last season became stuck between the handlebars as he experienced a big crasꦫh in Germany. Nakagami emerged un🐻scathed.

Joan Mir's manager Paco Sanchez told : "This format is crushing the drivers pꦇhysically and psycholꦺogically.

"I can tell you about Pol, Oliveira or Bastianini, who do not drive Honda, and have been or are at home due to injury, due to str❀ess and the new formula, which makes the riders from minute one are under tremendous pressure.

"The statistics are there. 🌺It ☂is not a thought but a reality.

"I've never seen a championship with the lꦚevel of injuries I'm seeing this year.

"Put together theಞ formᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚat of the championship, the number of crashes and that the Honda is a critical bike and the result is a catastrophe for us."