The 2023 season was supposed to be that of Enea Bastianini’s definitive consecration in MotoGP, instead it is turning into a real ordeal. Once again the official Ducati rider finds himself in a hospital bed, in Modena to be precise, where today he will have to undergo a double surgery.
After the scapula fracture sustained in the first Sprint of the year at Portimao, which compromised the first half of his first year as a Ducati official rider, the Rimini rider yesterday ran into another injury, a carom which unfortunately triggered himself at the first corner of the Catalan Grand Prix.
In the accident, which also involved the other four Ducatis of Johann Zarco, Alex Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio Di Giannantonio, “Bestia” suffered a fracture of the tibial medial malleolus and a complex fracture of the second metacarpal of his left hand. Injuries that will force him to undergo a double operation and miss his home race at Misano, after having already missed the first five races of the World Championship.
Enea Bastianini, Ducati Team crash
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“Enea suffered a fracture in his left hand and one in his left ankle and both will require surgery. He will have surgery as soon as possible and will certainly be forced to miss the GP of San Marino and the Rimini Riviera,” said the team manager Davide Tardozzi in the press release released yesterday evening by the Borgo Panigale manufacturer.
Bastianini, on the other hand, entrusted his reaction to a story published on Instagram while waiting to go under the knife at the Modena hospital. A message that shows all his discouragement, but also the desire to move on and to redeem himself from too many disappointments experienced this year.
“It’s not easy, not at all, when you think you’ve hit rock bottom and it’s not like that. At that point you despair and think you want to go back to change things, but the truth is that you can only go forward. So you know what I say? Fuck it, I’m going on! See you soon, “wrote Enea.
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