The MotoGP world championship has yet to officially kick off, but the pre-season tests of Mandalikain Indonesia, are already discussing some aspects that do not directly concern competitions: specifically, the element that is arousing various perplexities is linked to the delicate and fundamental sector of medical visits on pilotseven more so when they are victims of accidents and falls involving the head. In this regard, the example that has access to a serious controversy on the ability to correctly evaluate this type of trauma, concerns what happened on Saturday to the Spaniard of Tech3 KTM. Raul Fernandezthis year at his debut in MotoGP: the 21-year-old Iberian, in fact, was the protagonist of a disastrous fall at high speed on Saturday, following which he brought back the signs of a potential concussion, complete with a bruise on the left temple. Despite this, the medical commission found him suitable to regularly take part in the session scheduled the next day, during which Fernandez fell againwith absolute probability, due to the trauma reported the previous day.
A case that recalled what happened last season to Fernandez Denis Oncu, in Moto3, when the latter got the green light to compete from the medical team – in Misano – despite having admitted that he had lost consciousness after an accident in practice. Regarding the Mandalika episode, Fernandez had to prematurely stop testing after his second accident, with the Spaniard subsequently explaining the strange dynamics of the crash to the media: “The feeling is good now – declared as reported by the newspaper The-Race.com – but the problem is, I can’t drive. When you drive normally, you have speed in your head, which I don’t feel right now. The second fall was really weirdbecause I braked further than usual, but when I crashed I thought I had disconnected at the same point. I then went to the Mobile Clinic and they told me I had to stop, because I suffered a great trauma to my head. I stopped for this, as it was not safe to continue. In MotoGP you go at more than 300 km / h, and the fear is for your life: in the last session, when I put the helmet on, I felt a greater pressure on the level of the skull. Then, on the track, I had no perception of speed: at that point I stopped because it was too dangerous “.
An episode, the one that occurred to the detriment of Fernandez, who therefore does not seem to respect the updates recently implemented in the medical regulations of the MotoGP, in which a more rigorous and careful evaluation of the medical staff is required with regard to the riders who are victims of head injuries, and on the possibility of readmitting the latter to activities on the track through aeligibility which is given too lightly.
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