Alex Rins approached this season with eagerness. Riding his Suzuki, he was the outsider of choice, even one of the favorites. All in a 13-race campaign where it is absolutely necessary to avoid injury, since the Grands Prix will follow one another from weekend to weekend. This start in Jerez should put him on the right track. Alas, between heaven and hell, the line is thin in MotoGP. The Suzuki official will not have good memories of this Saturday in Andalusia…
After being hampered during FP3 by Marc Marquez which condemned him to make a Q1 from which he emerged despite a fall, Alex Rins thought he had eaten his black bread by launching into the attack on Q2… Alas! he fell heavily at the end of the year, narrowly avoiding, in the process, a Jack Miller already on the ground...
When he got up, he held one arm in a sling, making people fear bad news... And it arrived. His pain in the arm sent him straight to the circuit's clinic for verification. When he was at the clinic, Dr. Xavier Mir, who said he had a right shoulder dislocation. " This caused him a lot of pain. After taking an immediate x-ray, he was sedated to put his shoulder in place, which is definitely more painful than a fracture “, explained the doctor.
He was then taken to Jerez Hospital for extensive tests and to rule out any other type of injury. “ An MRI will be performed to assess the degree of tendon injury ", did he declare. Concerning the race, he did not want to confirm anything, but Davide Brivio was sufficiently aware of the seriousness of the matter to understand that he would not have his driver on the starting grid tomorrow...
