Gresini Ducati’s Fermin Aldeguer has been ruled out of the rest of the Dutch Grand Prix MotoGP weekend with a fractured vertebra after his crash in Friday practice.<\/p>\n
Both Aldeguer and team-mate Alex Marquez fell at the Duikersloot right-hander on Friday afternoon and required assistance away from the scene and medical checks afterwards.<\/p>\n
Gresini announced on Saturday morning that Aldeguer had suffered a fracture to the T7 vertebra in his crash, which worsened when he began tumbling violently as he hit the gravel trap.<\/p>\n
He will be assessed in the coming days to determine when he can ride again, with just one more MotoGP round – the German GP in a fortnight – before the summer break.<\/p>\n
Aldeguer’s second MotoGP season had already been compromised by a broken leg suffered in a training accident at the start of January, which ruled him out of all of pre-season testing and the opening round.<\/p>\n
Marquez must also clear medical checks before he will be allowed to participate in Saturday morning practice and qualifying.<\/p>\n
He is attempting to complete his first full racing weekend since suffering neck and collarbone injuries in his frightening Catalan GP crash a month ago.<\/p>\n
He returned for last weekend’s Czech GP but withdrew after qualifying.<\/p>\n
Gresini said Marquez had escaped his Assen Friday crash with “a contusion to his right shoulder and abrasions to his left arm” and there was no further damage spotted on a shoulder x-ray.<\/p>\n
“Luckily I\u2019m fine, just a few scratches but everything is OK,” said Marquez on Friday night.<\/p>\n
“The collarbone is fine, now we\u2019ll see how I feel tomorrow morning.”<\/p>\n
The Friday afternoon practice session was red-flagged for Marquez’s crash, and works Ducati rider Pecco Bagnaia expressed some surprise that the same hadn’t been done for Aldeguer’s accident.<\/p>\n
“I was expecting a red flag after the crash of Aldeguer,\u00a0because it took a lot of time to remove the bike and to transport Aldeguer out of the track.\u00a0But they didn’t give the red,” said Bagnaia.<\/p>\n
“Then with Alex, it was correct to put out the red flag, because the crash they had –\u00a0both Gresini riders – was huge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gresini Ducati’s Fermin Aldeguer has been ruled out of the rest of the Dutch Grand Prix MotoGP weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-763551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763551","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=763551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}