Franco Morbidelli is aiming to return to motion at this weekend’s French MotoGP, however the VR46 Ducati rider should first go a compulsory medical test on Thursday at Le Mans following his heavy crash within the Spanish Grand Prix.
“I really feel higher, however I wish to see how I really feel on the bike. I am trying ahead to finishing up our clear work program and having the 2 races at our greatest,” he mentioned.
Morbidelli was stretchered away from his second heavy fall of the weekend and later identified with a “neck contusion”, ruling him out of Monday’s official post-race take a look at.
The incident additionally introduced an finish to Morbidelli’s excellent 2025 run of factors finishes, leaving Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia as the one riders to have scored in all ten races up to now this season.
Regardless of the DNF, Morbidelli retains fourth on this planet championship standings, though his benefit over team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio has narrowed to 21 factors.
“Le Mans is one other actually necessary race for us. We’re in search of persevering with our nice tempo and velocity, so the aim is to do a extremely good job there,” mentioned Morbidelli.
“I just like the monitor, final 12 months I had a pleasant comeback [to seventh] in the primary race, so I’m assured trying on the monitor.”
Fabio di Giannantonio
Whereas Morbidelli was sidelined, di Giannantonio joined Bagnaia and Marc Marquez in evaluating updates for the factory-spec GP25 throughout the Jerez take a look at.
“Le Mans is a ravishing historic monitor, the place you go quick and there’s a lot of braking. I feel we will use already in France the options we discovered within the Jerez take a look at,” di Giannantonio mentioned.
“So, I am curious to see how the bike updates will likely be. In Le Mans we will do very well, final 12 months we fought for the rostrum, then there will likely be lots of followers and lots of vitality. So we may have enjoyable.”
Ducati has been unbeaten at Le Mans for the previous 5 years, with unbiased riders successful for the previous three years: Gresini’s Enea Bastianini in 2022, VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi in 2023 and Pramac’s Jorge Martin in 2024.
