Update on Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini injuries after Catalunya MotoGP
While Bagnaia escaped without significant injury after the scariest incident, Bastianini 💃must undergo two surgeries.
Bagnaia highsided on the first lap in Barcelona then, when he landed, he was struck in the legs by KTM’s 🌟B💖rad Binder.
The race was red-flagged and Bagnaia w🐭as transported to the medical centre, then the local hospital, and now his injuries have been described.
Ducati's D💧avide Tardozzi told : "It seems less✅ serious than expected."
Ducati later added: "Bagnaia has sustained multiple contusions, but further medical checks have shown no fractures. The reigning World Cham🅷pion will fly to Italy with the team."
Bagnaia was sp🦄otted leaving hospital in Barcelona on crutches.
He expressed gratitude for t♒he "luc🌄k" which helped him avoid serious injury, and spoke about the highside.
And remarkably Bagnaia was even able to set a very quick comeback date: Bagnaia breaks silence on “l💖uck” and comeback date as he൲ exits hospital
Paolo Ciabatti, Ducati sporting director, told : "They 🌜are examining the affected leg, he complains of pain in the coccyx, I think due to the high-side, which Pecco cannot explain.
“He doesn't think𒅌 he did anything unusual, so [we will] investigate the cause of the fall. Not knowing the reasons yet we d꧟o not want to comment on them.”
Enea Bastianini injury update
[…] Bastianini will require🔥 surgery on his ankle and, to speed up his recovery, he will also undergo surgery on his hand in the following days.
— Ducati Corse (@ducaticorse)
But Bagnaia's factory Du▨cati teammate Enea Bastianini will need two surgeries after hurting himself in a separate incident.
"Bastianini suffered a non-displaced fracture of the 🅰medial malleolus of the left ankle and a sub-capital fracture of the second metacarpal of his left hand," Ducati confirmed. "Both his hand and ankle have been immobilized with plaster to enable him to travel to Italy tonight.
"Bastianini will require surgery on his ankle and, to speed up hi🎶s recovery, he will also undergo surgery on his hand in the followi🐈ng days."
Bastianini's lunge caused a pile-up involving five other Ducati rider🐻s, moments before Bagnaia's scarier fall.
Bastianini was hit with a double long lap penalty but c💮ould not restart the race, so must serve it whenever he returns.
He will inevitably be ruled out of next week'🐟s grand prix at Misa🌠no.
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