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Aprilia boss releases a new update on Jorge Martin's condition

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After his horrendous crash on Wednesday Aprilia has released a new update on Jorge Martin.

Aprilia Sporting Director, Paolo Bonora, has provided a new update about Jorge Martin's condition.

In case you missed it the reigning World Champion had two crashes during the opening day of the Sepang Test. The second crash was a heavy highside that saw Martin fracture his right hand and left foot.

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He was then declared unfit for the remainder of the test and was flown back to Spain to undergo surgery.

“To be honest, we’d like to see the positive things of this,” Bonora told MotoGP.com's After the Flag.

“For sure, first of all, we are so happy that Jorge today is fine. He feels comfortable, he slept well this night, and he didn’t have any kind of particular problem. So, we are happy about this because after that kind of crash, everybody was thinking about him.

“So, we are happy. To be honest, the difficult thing yesterday was to keep him calm because he wanted to rejoin the track, he wanted to know how the test is going on, what we are testing.

“So, it was funny because his recovery was so good. Tomorrow he will have the surgery in Spain. Now we are only waiting for the medical examination and the official statement from them.

“So, we now are waiting for only positive things regarding him because we need his power, we need his talent and we are waiting for him.”

Lorenzo Savadori has since taken Martin's place in the Aprilia Racing garage and will take over the World Champions' testing duties.

It is currently unknown when we will next see Martin on track, but Aprilia CEO, Massimo Rivola, stated this on Wednesday after the crash: “I think anyway in Thailand we will bring Sava too as a back-up to do more testing, but it’s going to be tough. There could be the chance that his first time with 25 bike is in FP1.”

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