Andrea Dovizioso recently made Aprilia happy by agreeing to do a test run on a 2021 RS-GP which had proven to be particularly fast during off-season tests in Qatar. An operation planned for April 12 to 14 on the Jerez route. We must believe that a curse is following the Noale factory since we learn that the three-time vice-world champion has just been injured while performing a motocross race...
Andrea Dovizioso had planned to make his return on a MotoGP for an evaluation test in Jerez of theAprilia RS-GP. A plan scheduled for April 12 to 14 in Jerez. But here's what Tutomotoriweb This news comes to us which could put this opportunity on hold. The pilot of 34 year-old participated this weekend in Chieve in a race in the regional Lombard motocross championship, a specialty to which he devoted himself this season after his decision to take a sabbatical year.
In the accident, which took place during the first round, Dovi was injured. For the moment the injuries do not seem particularly serious, even if the former pilot Ducati was forced to abandon the second round. He will have to undergo precautionary checks.
A few days ago, Aprilia announced that an agreement had been reached with the Italian to give him a test from April 12 to 14. If his fitness conditions are not perfectly recovered by this date, the risk is that the first contact with the manufacturer Noale, which could allow him to return to the World Championship full-time in 2022, will be canceled.
Andrea Dovizioso already had a precedent
At the moment, it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions from this news. We look forward to further updates that will clarify how Andrea is and whether the hit he took today will have consequences in the near future. What is certain is that motocross is once again confirmed as a particularly dangerous discipline.
Dovizioso he himself knows something about it. It will be recalled that he broke his collarbone on June 28 while participating in a race on the Monte Coralli track. In this case, his recovery was very rapid, so much so that he was able to appear at the start of the MotoGP world championship, then postponed due to the pandemic, on the following July 19.
