MotoGP stars Pol and Aleix Espargaro have both undergone successful surgery with the Monster Yamaha man having an arm-pump fix while the Ecstar Suzuki rider had a ruptured ligament sorted out.

Pol’s arm-pump, or compartment syndrome as it is properly known, really caused him difficulty at the Le Mans MotoGP while Aleix suffered a whopping crash at the same Grand Prix and ruptured the collateral ligament of the thumb of the right hand, which causes joint instability.

"I had noticed this discomfort in my arm after some events before and I thought that it would get better quickly after the end so the race, but it didn’t. Therefore I went to visit a physical therapist about the discomfort I had in my right forearm after Le Mans and we quickly discovered that I needed to see a specialist,” said Pol.

“We decided to reduce the time between consultation and surgery, with the doctor Angel Villamor, in order to have as much time as possible between the operation and the next race. The truth is that I had experienced that sensation before but I did not consider it important, but unfortunately in these last two races it has been a little more serious.

“In Jerez, I believed that I suffered pain due to the type of circuit and the effort that I made during the first few laps trying to follow Lorenzo and Marquez and then Rossi and Crutchlow. Yet, in Le Mans it was even worse because I struggled very early in the race being nearly unable to ride the bike. Fortunately, the operation went well and I can now start working again in order to get in the best possible physical condition for the upcoming races.”