Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez returned to the observe on Thursday on his Ducati Panigale V2, however suffered a crash.
The 32-year-old suffered an advanced shoulder damage throughout final yr’s Indonesian Grand Prix and missed the remaining 4 races.
He lastly returned to circuit coaching on the Aspar circuit in Valencia earlier this month to evaluate his restoration.
Each Marc Marquez and Ducati had been proud of what they noticed, with coaching dates on the circuit now being added to the pre-season schedule forward of the yr’s first take a look at in Malaysia in February.
Marc Marquez skilled once more on the Aspar circuit on Thursday, together with Alex Marquez and various different Grand Prix riders.
Nevertheless, the Ducati rider suffered a crash in the course of the day, though he was not adversely affected.
Coaching periods will proceed on Friday on the Valencia-based venue.
With pre-season testing beginning in just below two weeks, many MotoGP riders have stepped up their coaching on the bike this week.
Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales is in Aragon on one of many model’s RC990R road bikes in preparation for his second season with the Austrian producer.
Vinales has welcomed Jorge Lorenzo as his new rider coach and the 10-time Grand Prix rider has had a busy winter. Vinales has participated in quite a few coaching periods on all kinds of bikes.
His Tech3 teammate Enea Bastianini joined the World Superbike grid this week in Jerez in the course of the first pre-season take a look at of the yr.
The Italian rode a Ducati road bike to the Spanish Grand Prix venue.
Forward of the Sepang take a look at, VR46 Academy riders will head to Indonesian Grand Prix venue Mandalika for road bike coaching.
The Sepang take a look at will happen from February third to fifth, with the shakedown for take a look at riders, rookies and concession rank D riders happening just a few days earlier, from January twenty ninth to thirty first.
The Buriram take a look at will likely be held from February twenty first to twenty second, with the Thai Grand Prix happening per week later.
