Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig has confirmed Jorge Loౠrenzo is aiming to return from injury at the first round after MotoGP’s summ♕er break at Brno.

In what has been a torrid 12 months with injuries for the five-time world champion, Lorenzo sustained fractures to his T6 and T8 vertebra (between his shoulder blades) in a nasty crash during FP1 at Assen which has ruled him out of both t𝐆he Dutch and German MotoGP rounds.

W🦩ith the Czech Republic round hosting the end of the summer break on August 2-4, effectively giving Lorenzo five weeks of recovery, Honda boss Puig hopes the Spanish rider will return to action at Brno.

“About Jorge Lorenzo, we wish that Jorge has a good and speedy recovery and can join us in 🐷Brno,” Puig said. “The team is waitin▨g for him.

“Surely, recovering from his injury is not an easy task, but we knowﷺ that in his heart he is a champion and he will fight to be back inꦑ good shape and with renewed motivation.”

Honꦯda called upon test r🍸ider Stefan Bradl as injury stand-in for Lorenzo last weekend in Germany and it is expected if Lorenzo is unable to recover for Brno he will be on hand again.

The Czech Republic round runs back-to-back with the Austrian round at tไhe Red Bull Ring before a two-week break ah𝐆ead of the British round at Silverstone.

Lorenzo has missed a total of six races and one pre-season test due to injury over the past year. After battling with a dislocated big toe and fractured second metatarsal from Aragon, Lorenzo sustained a𓃲 heavy fall in Thail🌺and and suffered a left wrist fracture with the injuries ruling him out of all four flyaway races at the end of the 2018 campaign.

The Repsol Honda rider then fractured his left scaphoid while pre-season training which r🅷uled him out of the Se🍨pang pre-season test.