Following on from his scary crash in Sepang, Raul Fernandez was still recovering during the Buriram Test.

Raul Fernandez had to miss the majority of the Sepang Test after a scary crash on the opening day. However, after surgery on his hand, the Spaniard returned for the Buriram Test.

The Trackhouse Racing rider has been off the pace during the final preseason test in Thailand. Fernandez ended the opening day in 19th place and was 1.791 seconds behind Marc Marquez.

“My physical condition is not so good,” Fernandez said.

“After the crash, I can’t be relaxed on the bike. Here, I am lucky because we don’t have a lot of left curves, and especially on the left curves I cannot push because I have the finger and I have also the foot.

“I cannot put my normal position on the bike, it’s almost impossible. For me, the first day was really positive, the pain was good. This was the main thing.

“I mean, now we are working on the pace, trying to work with the used tyre, not try to focus on the lap time. I know everybody is almost close to being there to trying to show the potential in the lap time.

“I am not in this way. I am more focused on myself, I am really happy with the work that we did today and overall it was a positive day.

“It’s just in the left curves I can’t be relaxed and it doesn’t help me because especially on the left I can’t put my feet like I want and I have to be tense in the curve.

"I am destroyed. For the rest, it was a positive day.”

Fernandez made his way up the order on the final day of testing in Thailand. The Spaniard ended preseason testing in 13th place on his Aprilia RS-GP, at the end of the day he was 0.877 seconds slower than Marc Marquez.