Injured nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi has confirmed that, on paper, Motegi is the mo🧔st likely venue for his MotoGP comeback.

But the Italian 'will꧟ try' and be♐ fit for Aragon, which starts just 22 days - compared with 42 days for Motegi - after he broke his right tibia and fibula in an enduro training accident.

“A lot depends on how my leg is," rep♐orts Rossi as saying, in an extract of a TV interview to be broadcast on Sky Sports Italy this evening.

"In my head, I was thinking Motegi, but it's hard to make 𝔉predictions. We need to see how my leg is, how it reacts, whether we can push it a little, move it, whether it swells, we need to see how I am.

"Last time [after breaking his leg in 2010] I was back on track after 40 or 41 days and so with that☂ kind of time frame we're looking at Motegi.

"Aragon🌊 is long before that, because it would be three weeks after the accident. So it will be really difficult, but we'll try. Every day we tr🦹y, we work and then we'll see”.

Rossi, whose ♊injury means he will definitely miss his home event at Misano this weekend, also gave details of exactly♉ how the accident happened.

“I went for an enduro ride with my friends and the other Academy riders. It's a༺ ride I've been doing sinc🌺e I was 18… it's something I've done 200 times. We were almost at the end, on quite a steep downhill. We were going slow, in second gear, but there was a rocky step.

"As I took ꦫit, the handlebar moved, as if I'd hit a stone. I went down on my right foot, but there was a jolt and when my foot went down with my body weight and that of the bike behind it, my leg broke. I was only about 400 metres from the end."

The Movistar Yamaha is currently fourth in the world championship, 26 points behind Andrea Dovizioso, wiဣth six rounds remaining.