MotoGP Assen: Lorenzo is injured in a second vertebra

Jorge Lorenzo has finished his Dutch Grand Prix, after a violent fall suffered during FP1 on the Assen track. This time, he will not be able to replay for us the feat of 2013, where he returned to action a few hours after fracturing his collarbone immediately after surgery. Because these are the vertebrae that were affected. Not once, but twice.

It is Jorge Lorenzo himself who announced it in a press release: “ due to the fall, I fractured my T6 and T8 vertebrae. The injury will not allow me to race at Assen and Sachsenring. Tomorrow I will fly to Lugano and do all possible treatments to prepare myself and go to Brno ».

An exhausting race against time is therefore engaged by the Majorcan, while the doctors will be waiting for him on the 1st.^er August at the infirmary Czech Republic Grand Prix. This meeting in the Netherlands was to mark the 290th Grand Prix for a 32-year-old Por Fuera. He won five world titles and 68 Grand Prix in a 17-year career. But he has been a regular resident of the hospital since the 2018 Aragon Grand Prix.

Judge for yourself: In Aragón in 2018, he started with a dislocation of the big toe and a fracture of the second metatarsal bone on the right, after a collision at the start of the Grand Prix with Marc Márquez. In Buriram the same year, there were serious bruises on his left wrist, and a sprain in his right ankle, after an accident following a technical problem on his Ducati.

In January 2019, he had an accident during off-road training. The scaphoid of the left wrist is fractured. In Qatar, it's a bone tear on a rib, and bruising on the back, wrist, fingers and feet. At the Jerez test on Monday May 6, 2019, he felt intense pain throughout his body. At the Barcelona tests, the Monday after the Catalan Grand Prix prematurely ended by a fall, he fell violently and got up with chest and back pain. A series that ends with FP1 in Assen, June 28, 2019, where the sixth vertebra is fractured, the eighth affected, with chest pain.

Lorenzo scored 19 points in a championship where he is only in 15th place after discovering the Honda. On this situation, Valentino Rossi commented : " Jorge is in a vicious circle. The more you fall, the more you lose confidence in yourself. It's a technical problem. He must understand what is happening ».