The mistake proved a double disaster for Aprilia<\/a>, with Martin also taking out team-mate Marco Bezzecchi. The Italian escaped injury, while Martin now heads for surgery.<\/p>\n \u201cThe good news is that he had a decent sleep. He will fly to Barcelona and tomorrow he will get the surgery and then we will see,\u201d Rivola told Dorna\u2019s pit lane reporter Jack Appleyard on Sunday morning at Motegi.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have no fixed time for him to come back. Again, we give him his time.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Martin, Bezzecchi Turn 1 crash, 2025 Japanese MotoGP Sprint<\/p>\n Pressed to confirm that Martin will definitely miss next weekend\u2019s Mandalika round, Rivola also cast doubt on the following flyaway events at Phillip Island (October 17-19) and Sepang (October 24-26).<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t even think about the following two, honestly. At the moment, honestly, I even don’t care. I just need him to be fine, and take his time.<\/p>\n \u201cAlready it was supposed to be like that, working for next season – now even more so.<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s no rush. The important thing is that now Marco can deliver. The important thing is that the whole team is united. The important thing is that the two riders got along quite well despite what happened.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cSo it’s going to be good in the future, but now we have to focus on Marco. Stay close to him and close to Jorge as much as we can, considering the distance.\u201d<\/p>\n After Sepang, the season concludes at Portimao and Valencia, which is followed by a crucial official test.<\/p>\n “It hurts\u2026 but this is what I\u2019m all about. You\u2019ll never see me give the f*** up. See you soon!” Martin posted on social media.<\/p>\n Whenever Martin does return, he is likely to serve a penalty for the Sprint accident, although the FIM Stewards have deferred the hearing until he is available.<\/p>\n Martin, Bezzecchi, Turn 1 crash, 2025 Japanese MotoGP Sprint<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n The good news for Aprilia is that 2025 race winner Bezzecchi,<\/a> currently fighting for third in the MotoGP<\/a> standings, is fit to take part in Sunday\u2019s grand prix despite a leg injury.<\/p>\n \u201cI was waiting for him this morning. I thought he was going to be really struggling with even walking. It didn’t look like that, so I was impressed about his recovery. But let’s see on the bike,\u201d said Rivola.<\/p>\n Bezzecchi, now 20 points behind Sprint winner Francesco Bagnaia, went on to set the third-fastest time in morning warm-up. Bagnaia was sixth.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola has suggested that injured outgoing world champion Jorge Martin is likely to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,10669,64,63,5744,10732,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-174301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia","9":"tag-aprilia-racing","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-jorge-martin","13":"tag-marco-bezzecchi","14":"tag-motor","15":"tag-motor-sports","16":"tag-motosport","17":"tag-motosports","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174301","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=174301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Martin,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/martin-crash.jpg\")
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