{"id":172275,"date":"2025-09-27T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172275\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:38:08","slug":"martin-suffers-fourth-major-injury-of-2025-motogp-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172275\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin suffers fourth major injury of 2025 MotoGP season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aprilia MotoGP rider Jorge Martin has been diagnosed with a collarbone fracture following his crash with team-mate Marco Bezzecchi at the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/motogp\/bagnaia-takes-first-motogp-race-win-in-six-months\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Motegi sprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin lost control of his bike on approach to Turn 1, leading to a hard impact with his team-mate, in which Bezzecchi appeared to have come off worse initially.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LIGHTS OUT in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TissotSprint?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TissotSprint<\/a> \ud83d\udea5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeccoBagnaia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PeccoBagnaia<\/a> nails the start as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/88jorgemartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@88jorgemartin<\/a> and Bezzecchi are out at the first corner \ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JapaneseGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#JapaneseGP<\/a> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q9d9z35wMY?ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Q9d9z35wMY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MotoGP\u2122\ud83c\udfc1 (@MotoGP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MotoGP\/status\/1971818402437034198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 27, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But while Bezzecchi looked relatively unhurt if shaken up getting up on his feet, Martin was seen holding his right arm &#8211; and headed to the circuit medical centre for checks.<\/p>\n<p>An X-ray revealed, according to his Aprilia team, a &#8220;displaced fracture of the right collarbone&#8221; &#8211; meaning a break in which the pieces of the bone are misaligned.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has subsequently headed by helicopter to Dokkyo Medical University in Mibu &#8211; a town just under 50km away from the circuit &#8211; for a CT scan.<\/p>\n<p>Bezzecchi will also undergo further medical checks, in his case on his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fourth substantial injury Martin has suffered in his first year as an Aprilia rider.<\/p>\n<p>He was hurt twice in the pre-season &#8211; first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/motogp\/jorge-martin-sepang-test-crash-aprilia-michelin-details\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during testing<\/a>, with hand and foot fractures from a Sepang crash, then in a training crash that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/motogp\/jorge-martin-aprilia-motogp-return-injury-scared\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led to worse hand injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon finally returning to MotoGP competition for round four in Qatar in April, he crashed and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/motogp\/worst-scene-of-my-life-di-giannantonio-horrified-by-martin-hit\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit by Fabio Di Giannantonio&#8217;s Ducati<\/a>, suffering broken ribs and a lung injury that put him back on the sidelines again until July.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia MotoGP rider Jorge Martin has been diagnosed with a collarbone fracture following his crash with team-mate Marco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-172275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}