Pol Espargaró is still recovering from his terrible accident suffered during P2 of the first Grand Prix of the season in Portugal. A violent fall in a very bad place on the Portimao route which must, incidentally, review its copy in terms of safety in certain sectors of its circuit if it wants to keep its approval. Work which will have to be validated before the arrival of the Superbikes this year. The fact remains that when we pick up a volume like this, we wonder about the meaning of our saved life. A question that the GASGAS Tech3 pilot actually asked himself…
To understand how a pilot who lives only to ride missiles at high speed on two wheels manages to reach the space-time of ordinary mortals and ends up wondering if all this is really reasonable, we must remember in what state been picked up Pol Espargaro at the end of a bend in Portimao which was not protected by airfence… “ I am silent broken jaw in two places, and I had to keep it completely closed for four weeks after the accident. I couldn't eat properly and I lost a lot of weight, 9 kilos, but finally I can smile and I can speak quite well ».
And it's not over : " Additionally, I had an injury to my ear-drum who was operated on after the accident, I had eight fractures in my body, two in my ribs, one in my neck, three in my back which I think takes a little longer because the fractures in my back are the ones that the doctors are still checking a little in depth ».
Pol Espargaro: “ I saw my wife suffer, but she told me many times that she met me on a motorcycle »
And that’s where a light, logically, comes on: “ you know what happens when you play with these kinds of injuries, with the vertebrae, you have to be very careful because it is very easy to injure your spinal cord, so we are working hand in hand with the doctors to come back as soon as possible, but first of all I have to come back in good health, but I am the first to want to jump on the bike ».
A state of mind which was not the one which spontaneously came when Pol Espargaro regained consciousness on his bed of pain… “ I thought about stopping running, these are ideas I had » we read on motorcyclesports... " I had a lot of time to think. See how those around me also suffer, see my wife suffer, that's what made me think ". However… " But she told me many times that she met me on a motorcycle, that's what makes her happy, and it makes her happy to see me happy ».
It now remains to find his MotoGP : " I don't know when I'll get back on the bike honestly. I would like to return to Mugello, but I think I will wait a few more races ". Attention is focused on the Dutch Grand Prix at Assen scheduled for the end of June: “ I would like to resume racing before the summer break » finishes the courageous Pol Espargaro.
