{"id":261759,"date":"2025-11-04T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:36:11","slug":"jorge-martins-replacement-for-portugal-motogp-round-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261759\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Martin\u2019s replacement for Portugal MotoGP round named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aprilia will once again call up Lorenzo Savadori to deputise for the injured Jorge Martin at the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s MotoGP world champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973236\/jorge-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Martin<\/a>, has been absent since suffering a fractured shoulder in a collision with Aprilia team-mate Marco Bezzecchi at the start of the sprint at the Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has been in recovery since surgery on his shoulder, with his rehabilitation going well.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/aprilia-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aprilia<\/a> confirmed last week that Martin would not be participating in the penultimate round of the campaign to focus on his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it will replace him with test rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973242\/lorenzo-savadori\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Savadori<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortimao is a fantastic and extremely particular track,\u201d Savadori said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of time has passed since the last time I rode here, and I can\u2019t wait to get back onto the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll continue the work we began in Australia, and in Portugal we\u2019ll keep developing the bike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are coming from two positive days of private testing in Jerez, where we further advanced the development programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be Savadori\u2019s third race weekend in succession and his 12th of the season, with Martin having only competed in six rounds due to four major injury layoffs.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Savadori hasn\u2019t raced at Portimao since 2022, while in 2021 he scored points in 14th at the Portuguese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia endured a tough weekend at the Malaysian Grand Prix last time out, with its best result a 10th in the main race from Trackhouse\u2019s Ai Ogura.<\/p>\n<p>But Aprilia is expected to get back to its pre-Sepang form in Portugal, having been strong at the circuit last year.<\/p>\n<p>Maverick Vinales took the marque to a sprint victory, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995158\/marco-bezzecchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> has a podium at Portimao to his credit fro 2023 when he was a VR46 Ducati rider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am quite happy to be returning to Portimao,\u201d Bezzecchi said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we raced here at the beginning of the season, so a lot of time has passed since we were here last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this track a lot and I am looking forward to tackling it again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese will be two important races. We\u2019ll try to do a good job with the entire team and with Aprilia, have fun, and close out this season in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia will once again call up Lorenzo Savadori to deputise for the injured Jorge Martin at the MotoGP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,64,63,5744,139585,10732,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-261759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-aprilia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jorge-martin","tag-lorenzo-savadori","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261759","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=261759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}