Aprilia Racing has announced that Jorge Martin’s rehabilitation is going according to plan ahead of the Thai Grand Prix season opener. Martin suffered hand and foot injuries during the Sepang Test that omitted his participation in this weekend’s sessions at Chang International Circuit in Thailand. Unfortunately for Martin, his title defense may come with an certain start as we will no know his true status until practice kicks off next weekend.
Martin’s suffered a closed fracture of the fifth metacarpal head of the right hand and a closed fracture of the third, fourth and fifth metatarsals of the left foot after his crash. with just under a month of recovery it is yet to be determine whether enough time has passed for him to heal enough to compete at 100% health. We will report more as this story develops in the coming week.