Aprilia has introduced that 2024 MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin will miss the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix as he continues to get well from harm.
The Spaniard was sidelined after the Japanese Grand Prix along with his fourth main harm setback of the yr, after a Flip 1 collision in the beginning of the Motegi dash that additionally concerned Aprilia team-mate Marco Bezzecchi.
Jorge Martin suffered a displaced fracture to his shoulder, which required surgical procedure, and has saved him sidelined since.
Whereas restoration has been progressing and Martin has been coaching once more, a timeline for his return to motion was not given by Aprilia.
Nonetheless, it has now been confirmed that he’ll sit out the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao subsequent weekend to deal with his restoration.
Aprilia has not but talked about whether or not he will probably be participating within the following week’s 2025 finale on the Valencia Grand Prix, nor the post-race take a look at on the Tuesday afterwards.
He has been changed by take a look at rider Lorenzo Savadori in current rounds, which is more likely to proceed into Portugal. Aprilia has but to substantiate this, although.
Martin suffered a pre-season-ending harm simply 13 laps into testing at Sepang in February, earlier than a coaching incident dominated him out of the opening three rounds.
When he returned on the Qatar Grand Prix, he crashed late on in the principle race and was struck by VR46 Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio.
This left him with a number of accidents and meant he wouldn’t race once more till the Czech Grand Prix previous to the summer time break.
Within the interval between Qatar and Brno, the 2024 world champion engaged in a contract dispute with Aprilia to stop the marque a yr early.
He tried to argue {that a} launch clause in his contract might be activated because of a selected outcomes threshold not having been met.
Aprilia argued towards this and threatened to tug it by means of the courts, with Martin in the end committing to his second yr in 2026.
In complete, Martin has accomplished simply six of the 20 rounds run thus far in 2025, attaining a greatest results of fourth on the Hungarian Grand Prix.
He’s not the one world champion confirmed as absent from the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix.
Following a shoulder harm from a collision with Bezzecchi on the Indonesian Grand Prix, Marc Marquez has been dominated out for the rest of the season as he continues his restoration.
