Pramac Yamaha MotoGP rider Miguel Oliveira has escaped harm after being taken to hospital for checks following a nasty tangle with Fermin Aldeguer within the MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix dash.
Gresini rookie Aldeguer and Oliveira had been preventing for place additional down the order out of the factors after they collided on lap 5 of 12 of Saturday’s dash at Termas de Rio Hondo.
Aldeguer threw his Ducati up the within of Oliveira’s Yamaha and the pair collided, with the latter crashing closely within the gravel.
Oliveira was unable to rejoin, whereas Aldeguer obtained again onto his bike and completed the dash in nineteenth.
The incident was positioned beneath investigation by the stewards after the race, with Aldeguer being deemed to have been the responsible occasion and has given him a protracted lap penalty for the subsequent grand prix he begins.
That is because of be Sunday’s grand prix in Argentina, however will carry over to a different spherical ought to he be unable to compete within the race.
He had already been taken to the medical centre for evaluation.
A short assertion from Pramac learn: “Miguel’s situations, it looks as if the collarbone is okay however Physician Charte has a doubt concerning the sternum-collarbone space, so they are going to take Miguel to Santiago del Estero hospital for a scan.”
A follow-up remark from the workforce then added: “Replace on Miguel: appears to be like like nothing is damaged and he’s coming again to the circuit.”
Oliveira has had little luck with accidents lately, with the Pramac rider lacking 5 races in 2024 after he was ejected from his Trackhouse Aprilia throughout apply for the Indonesian GP and broke his wrist.
This was blamed on a technical challenge with the bike.
He missed 4 races in 2023 on account of separate accidents too.
Oliveira’s crash within the Argentina dash compounded a tricky day for Yamaha, because it failed to attain factors regardless of having two riders inside the highest 10 on the grid.
Fabio Quartararo was its main runner in tenth, although he ran as excessive as fourth within the early phases, whereas Pramac’s Jack Miller was eleventh and Alex Rins was twelfth.
