Injured Michele Pirro rages at “bowling” crash: “I am very angry”
The Ducati test and reserve rider was racing in the title decider of the Italian Superbike (CIV) series when he was clattered by Lorenzo Zanetti, costing him a chance to defe⛄nd his a♛ccolade.
Pirro has since had surgery on a fract🅰ured left leg.
“He said normal racꦐe contact,” Pirro sarcastically commented on social media about Zanetti’s manoeuvre.
“I missed that th🌊ere was bowling at the Imola Circuit!
“How sad for sport, you accept something like this if you have a technical problem or an illness but not if you have a rider’s licence, with the risk of hurting o🎃thers.
“I repeat, I am not interested in the Championship, I am interested in my health and above all in preventinꦚg young people from taking these examples, or as stated either ‘gravel or glory’.
“I'm very angry because I'm suffering physically from somಌething that could have been avoided.”
He la♚ter confirmed from his hospital bed that he’d had “four screws and a few stitches”.
Pirro became the latest Ducati rid♏er to be injured, a day after Marco Bezzec🌼chi broke his collarbone in training.
Luca Marini, recovering from his own collarbone injury, will fly to theꦬ I🌄ndonesian MotoGP this weekend.
But Bezzecchi’s participation 🐼is in doubt, and regular replacement Pirro is now sidelined 🐲too.
A🍒lex Marquez of Gresini Ducati and factory rider Enea Bastianini als꧂o have their own physical problems ahead of Mandalika.
James was a sportsཧ jo🏅urnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
