Martin also injures his left hand and misses his debut in Thailand

Madrid, February 24 – Bad luck strikes Jorge Martin again. The 2024 MotoGP world champion will be forced to miss the first race of the new season scheduled for Thailand next Sunday due to an injury to his left hand during a final-hour training session in Andorra . A hard blow for the Spaniard that comes on top of the disastrous fall during the dress rehearsals for the new season in Sepang on February 5 when the Aprilia rider suffered a fracture to his right hand, as well as to his left foot, which the doctors decided not to intervene on, and which had already cast doubt on his possible presence at the starting line of the world championship. Now the Noale motorcycle manufacturer will be forced to give up its star at least for the first round of the world championship, hoping to be able to recover him in view of the Argentine Grand Prix scheduled for the weekend of March 14-16 , focusing everything on the skills of Marco Bazzecchi, who had already shown off his talent during the Thai GP last season, finishing in third place. Furthermore, to further complicate things for Aprilia, there was also the injury of Raul Fernandez of the Trackhouse satellite team who, during the pre-season in Malaysia, had also suffered a fracture to the metacarpal of his left hand and a toe in a nasty fall on the Sepang track, thus depriving the Italian motorcycle manufacturer of its only rider with experience on the RS-GP. In short, a rather dark period that seems destined to never end for the Venetian team and which could be taken advantage of by the direct rival team in the race for the title, namely Ducati which, thanks to the experience of both Marc Marquez and 'Pecco' Bagnaia, could immediately collect important points in view of the fight for the world championship that could already prove decisive in the final classification.