Jorge Martin is set to miss the first two rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season. Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola confirmed to media in Thailand that the Spaniard's wrist and scaphoid need more recovery time before he will be able to race.
The reigning world champion fractured the radius, scaphoid and other wrist bones in his left wrist in a training crash. Martin had been riding a supermoto bike for the first time since breaking a metacarpal bone in his right hand in a highside at the Sepang test. A highside on the supermoto bike saw him fracture the bones in his left wrist, as well as in his left ankle.
Martin has since had surger to insert two screws in his radius and one in the scaphoid, but according to Massimo Rivola, he will need some time to recover. "For sure he won't race also in Argentina, the situation of the left hand is not good at the moment," Rivola told journalists. "According to Doctor Mir, the surgery was quite good, so we are positive. But the moment I think we don't even have to think about when he will be back."
They would only bring Martin back when there was no risk of aggravating the injury, Rivola insisted. "He will only come back when he’s really fit. We don't want to risk at all his condition." This has consequences for the objectives for Aprilia's 2025 season. "So regarding the championship I rather prefer to look at the new era Aprilia with these two new riders in a long term vision, rather than in a short term. So we will see at the end of the season."
The race after Argentina is the Circuit Of The Americas in Austin, Texas. That race would be four and a half weeks after the surgery on Martin's wrist. However, it is also one of the most physically demanding tracks on the calendar, as well as one of the bumpiest. Getting back on the bike only to subject his wrist to the rigors of COTA may not be the right decision if there are still any lingering doubts over his fitness.
For the moment, Lorenzo Savadori takes the place of Jorge Martin in the factory Aprilia team, alongside Marco Bezzecchi.
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Saves him a lot of travel;…
Saves him a lot of travel; hopefully he heals quickly!
6-8weeks.
If Aprilia have any sense they'll keep Jorge off until Qatar. Cota isn't quite long enough for the bone heal properly and it's the perfect place to turn a 2 race absence into a ruined season.