Aprilia has introduced that 2024 MotoGP World Champion Jorge Martin will miss the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix as he continues to get better from harm.
The Spaniard was sidelined after the Japanese Grand Prix along with his fourth critical harm of the yr, an accident that additionally concerned his Aprilia teammate Marco Bezzecchi at Flip 1 firstly of the Motegi dash.
Jorge Martin suffered a displaced shoulder fracture that required surgical procedure and has been sidelined ever since.
His restoration is progressing and Martin is coaching once more, however Aprilia has not mentioned when he’ll return.
Nonetheless, it has been confirmed that he’ll miss subsequent weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix in Portimao to give attention to his restoration.
Aprilia has not but introduced whether or not it’ll participate in subsequent week’s last race of 2025, the Valencia Grand Prix, or whether or not it’ll participate in post-race testing on Tuesday.
He was changed by check rider Lorenzo Savadori in latest rounds and appears set to proceed into Portugal. Nonetheless, Aprilia has not but confirmed this.
Martin suffered a season-ending harm simply 13 laps into testing at Sepang in February, lacking the opening three races as a result of a coaching accident.
On his return to motion on the Qatar Grand Prix, he crashed in the direction of the tip of the principle race and was rear-ended by Fabio Di Giannantonio in his VR46 Ducati.
This left him with a number of accidents and he was unable to race once more till the Czech Grand Prix earlier than the summer season break.
Between Qatar and Brno, the 2024 world champion had a contract dispute with Aprilia and left the model a yr early.
He sought to argue that the termination clause within the contract may very well be triggered as a result of sure final result standards weren’t met.
Aprilia disputed this and threatened to struggle it in court docket, and Martin finally dedicated to a second yr in workplace in 2026.
In complete, Martin has solely accomplished six of the 20 races as much as 2025, along with his greatest consequence being fourth on the Hungarian Grand Prix.
He’s not the one world champion confirmed to overlook the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix.
Marc Marquez will miss the rest of the season as he continues his restoration after sustaining a shoulder harm sustained in a collision with Bezzecchi in the course of the Indonesian Grand Prix.
