After missing pre-season testing and the opening MotoGP round in Thailand, Fermin Aldeguer could be set to join the 2026 world championship from next weekend in Brazil.

The Gresini Ducati rider, who won the Indonesian Grand Prix alongside two other grand prix podiums in his rookie MotoGP season, has been sidelined since fracturing his femur in a training accident on 8 January.

Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was called up to replace Aldeguer at Buriram, alongside Alex Marquez, finishing last in both Thai races.

However, Aldeguer was fit enough to conduct track-day training on road bikes in Spain earlier this week, with Motorsport.com reporting that “everything points to him being able to race in Brazil”.

Aldeguer is said to be planning a further track day on Friday.

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Providing all continues to go well, and he then passes the pre-event Brazilian MotoGP medical check, Aldeguer will return to a Desmosedici for the first time since last November’s Valencia test.

Although he has missed a combined eight days of MotoGP action – three at the Sepang test, two at Buriram and the Thai race weekend – the unknown nature of the new Goiania circuit means the young Spaniard will face less of a disadvantage as he gets back up to speed.

Team-mate Alex Marquez will also arrive in Brazil with zero points after an eleventh-place finish in the Buriram Sprint, following an opening lap tangle with Fabio di Giannantonio, was combined with a late crash from eighth in the grand prix.

The reigning title runner-up has been promoted to factory spec GP26 machinery this season, while Aldeguer joins only VR46’s Franco Morbidelli on an older satellite-spec bike.

Morbidelli was eighth in the Thai Grand Prix, where Ducati struggled to extract maximum performance from the harder construction rear tyre relative to Aprilia, which filled four of the top five places.

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However, a similar, harder construction rear tyre suited Aldeguer’s riding style perfectly at Mandalika last year.

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