Jorge Lorenzo Gets Into a Stupid Training Accident Right Before MotoGP 2019

Posted by Joseph Haiden on February 1st, 2019

Honda Rider Jorge Lorenzo explains how he got into the very stupid accident right before MotoGP 2019 while training on track. The so called stupid accident left him with a broken scaphoid. He undertook surgery two days after the accident happened while his dirt bike training on Saturday.

The accident ruined his plan for the preseason and him now involuntary will have to skip the first MotoGP pre-season test at Sepang. Get MotoGP Tickets Discount Coupon attickets4race and give rise to the exciting of your adventure in live MotoGP 2019.

He explains how it all happensat the factory Honda 2019 season launch in Madrid, the rider told that it was his first day at bike training in some Italian dirt track. He made a mistake of not checking the track beforehand. He says the track had some zones with bad mud which was difficult to catch the eye too.

The surfaced looked fine and dry at the time but actually had mud as soon as he entered the area with the mud his front tyre got closed and the bike crashed. There is much thrilling stuff waiting for your eyes at the MotoGP 2019 this season buy Cheapest MotoGP Tickets now at tickets4race.com.

The biggest misfortune was that the wrist which got injured has already been injured before. During a crash in Thailand last year the rider has injured his wrist and it still was not healed a 100%. The pressure on the wrist while he was involved in the dirt bike accident was enough to cause the scaphoid to break.

This also means he was not totally fit at the time of the debut on the Honda MotoGP in post season testing. And this recent incident caused a major setback to his first campaign with Honda.

Lorenzo said that it would have been prefect to be able to ride for the test in Sepang but as it seems he cannot do so with the limit of days there are in Sepang. Get Cheap MotoGP Tickets to see how the races take place this season. The decision was made to wait 34 days for the test in Qatar.

Though Lorenzo does not think he would be able to give is 100% but is confident he can pull up a 90 to 95% by the time of Qatar test.

He said the crash was totally unexpected, and he believes it was his bad luck that he had to get involved in a situation such as this.  Get Your MotoGP Tickets and get ready for an electrifying experience. All he can hope to do now is do as best as possible with the physios, the machines, and all the process of recuperation at least that’s what the plan is he says.

He thinks he will start moving his wrist a little bit by Friday and just like that little-by-little he will be able to recover from the injury.

Honda has been stuck in a complicated situation with this injury as the team mate Marc Marquez still has not recovered from the surgery on his shoulder performed in December. You can buy the tickets from tickets4race to get exciting MotoGP Tickets Discount.

Stefan Bradl, who is the in charge to test the Honda RC213V at Jerez together with the World Superbike field, is to step in as the replacement for Lorenzo in Sepang.

The team manager Alberto Puig said that the best thing right now is that we didn’t have to go through this in the middle of the season, not the best situation but still a bit better. There is nothing to be done than make do with what we have now and rider’s fitness is the priority no 1 for now, so they are ready by the time of the championship in March.

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