{"id":174548,"date":"2025-09-28T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174548\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:22:07","slug":"ai-ogura-withdraws-from-home-japanese-motogp-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174548\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Ogura withdraws from home Japanese MotoGP race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ai Ogura will join factory Aprilia rider Jorge Martin in missing this afternoon\u2019s Japanese MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie, who qualified 13th for his home Motegi event, then claimed the final point with ninth in Saturday\u2019s sprint, is still struggling with the hand injury sustained at the previous San Marino Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/trackhouse-motogp-team\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trackhouse <\/a>statement read:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the heavy crash that Trackhouse MotoGP Team rider, #79 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1043649\/ai-ogura\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ai Ogura<\/a>, suffered in the early laps of the San Marino Grand Prix, Ai has been riding in Motegi with some discomfort in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this has become more acute to the point where he has been forced to withdraw from the Grand Prix of Japan.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he is hugely disappointed not to be able to race for his home fans, his well-being and safety on track must be the priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is monitoring his condition with the MotoGP World Championship medical team and supporting Ai in the recovery process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis participation in next week\u2019s Grand Prix of Indonesia will be subject to a review of his progress when the team arrives in Mandalika.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ogura was only 21st fastest after six laps in Sunday morning&#8217;s warm-up.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ai Ogura will join factory Aprilia rider Jorge Martin in missing this afternoon\u2019s Japanese MotoGP. The rookie, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[34422,64,63,806,805,803,804,85,113427],"class_list":["post-174548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-ai-ogura","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-trackhouse-motogp-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174548","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=174548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}