{"id":268820,"date":"2025-11-07T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268820\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:01:08","slug":"raul-fernandez-taken-to-hospital-after-heavy-portugal-motogp-fp1-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268820\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul Fernandez taken to hospital after heavy Portugal MotoGP FP1 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trackhouse MotoGP race winner Raul Fernandez is being taken to hospital for checks after suffering a heavy crash in FP1 for the Portuguese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard came off his satellite Aprilia at Turn 1 with just under 20 minutes remaining in Friday morning\u2019s FP1 session.<\/p>\n<p>His bike went all the way to the air fencing, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995154\/raul-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raul Fernandez<\/a> was able to get to his feet &#8211; albeit visibly shaken up by the spill.<\/p>\n<p>He was later taken to the circuit medical centre for checks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/trackhouse-motogp-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trackhouse<\/a> now confirming that he will be transferred to a local hospital for a CT scan.<\/p>\n<p>After Raul\u2019s crash in Turn 1, he had a check-up in the medical centre here and is being transferred to the local hospital now for a CT scan,\u201d a brief statement from the team read.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll know more later and keep you updated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An absence from the remainder of the Portimao weekend will come as a major blow to Fernandez, who comes to Portugal after a strong run in the flyaways.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard scored a maiden sprint podium in Indonesia, before taking his first grand prix victory in Australia two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia also has strong past form at Portimao, with Maverick Vinales winning the sprint for the factory team last year and narrowly missing a grand prix podium due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian manufacturer has been plagued by injuries this year, with 2024 world champion Jorge Martin absent after suffering a shoulder fracture in Japan.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>That marked his fourth major injury of the season, while in Indonesia, Aprilia had to compete with just 50% of its stable due to Trackhouse rookie Ai Ogura being forced onto the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1085853\/1\/2025-portuguese-motogp-alex-marquez-tops-fp1-nicolo-bulega-beats-pecco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gresini\u2019s Alex Marquez led the way in this morning\u2019s FP1 in Portugal<\/a>, while Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi began the weekend strongly in second.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was left in 18th due to his crash.<\/p>\n<p>KTM\u2019s Pol Espargaro, who is deputising for the injured Maverick Vinales at Tech3, also suffered a crash on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>However, his tip-off at Turn 2 resulted in no ill effects for the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trackhouse MotoGP race winner Raul Fernandez is being taken to hospital for checks after suffering a heavy crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,13147,85,113427],"class_list":{"0":"post-268820","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-raul-fernandez","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-trackhouse-motogp-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268820","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=268820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}