Franco Morbidelli: “Nothing negative” about return to scene of scary crash
Fran𒊎co Morbidelli explains his feeling about return𒉰ing to Portimao after his recent accident

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli re🤪turns to Portimao this weekend, the scene of h💙is concerning crash during preseason.
ꩲMorbidelli lost control of a Panigale V4S in January at the track in Portugal, a❀nd was hospitalised after being knocked unconscious.
As a result, he missed the entirety of MotoGP pres🐬eason testing and was forced to use the season-opening round in Qatar as practice on his Ducati.
This weekend’s🎃 Portuguese MotoGP, the second round of the 2024 season, offers Morbidelli his next chance to adjust to his new Pramac Ducati team.
“There is nothing negative about approaching this track,”🐎 Morbidelli said when remembering his recent crash.
“The first reason is becau♒se t൩his track is beautiful.
“I had an accident, yes. A serious🎶 accident. But such a strange accident.
“An unreplicab꧅le accident. Technically, it cannot affect my thinking.
“It was something difficult to happen again.
“Also, because I am doing what I love to do.
“There is nothing to slow my progress down at th🎀is𓆉 track.”
Morbidelli’s physical recovery from his crash in January has largely conc♛luded meaning he can ramp up his progress on the GP24, albeit late🦩r than any of his MotoGP rivals.
He said about Portimao this weekend: “We will ke♛ep going for our acclimatisation t♓o the new bike, but with much more confidence than in Qatar.
“I had a normal couple of weeks at home, and I had the chance to ride bikes. The confidence is muc🌼h more.
ꦛ“We approach this wee♌kend knowing that we have ground to recover.
“The confidence is the fact that I did two normal weeks, when I was home, instꦦead of the recovery weeks that I did between the accident and the first race.
“I had zero tests. Everything I went through, generally, in that p💟eriod…”
He added about the 💃past fortn꧂ight since Qatar: “I was willing to start normal training as soon as possible. I felt good.
“My body reacted very well. Iಌ am really pleased by ✅that.”
Morbidelli was asked about his earliest indications about the GP24, which Pecco Bagnaia won the Qatar MotoGP with, and which his teammate Jorge Martin rode to victory in the🌃 sprint.
He replied: “It needs to be ridden fast!
“Pecco and Jorge ride in faster than every other Ducati. It needs to be r🥃idden in that way.”
Morbidelli also ente♛rs the Portuguese MotoGP after news that Ducati have signed up Fermin Aldeguer for 2025.
It is expected, but unconfir🧔med, that Aldeguer will be placed in the Pramac team.
Martin’s future is expe🎶✨cted to be elsewhere, either at the factory Ducati team or a rival manufacturer.

James was a s🎀ports journ𒀰alist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.