Franco Morbidelli: “Nothing negative” about return to scene of scary crash
Franco Morbidelli explains his feeling about returning to Portimaoဣ after his recent accident

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli returns to Portimao this weekend, the scene of his🐬 concerning crash during preseason.
Morbidelli lost control of a Panigale V4S in January at the ꦆtrack in Portugal, and was hospitalised after being knocked unconscious.
As a result, he missed the entirety of MotoGP preseason testing and was forced toꦜ use the season-opening round in Qatar as practice on his Ducati.
Thꦜis weekend’s Portugueꦯse MotoGP, the second round of the 2024 season, offers Morbidelli his next chance to adjust to his new Pramac Ducati team.
“There is notꦡhing negative about appr🍬oaching this track,” Morbidelli said when remembering his recent crash.
“The first reason is because this track is beauti🌜ful.
“I had an🐭 accident, yes. A serious accident. But such a strange accident.
“An unreplicable accid♓ent. Technically, i🎉t cannot affect my thinking.
“It was something difficult to happen again.
“Also, because I am doing what I love to do.
“There is noꦉthing to slow my progress down 💝at this track.”
Morbidelli’s pꦉhys🏅ical recovery from his crash in January has largely concluded meaning he can ramp up his progress on the GP24, albeit later than any of his MotoGP rivals.
He said about Portimao this wee💦kend: “We will keep going ♋for our acclimatisation to the new bike, but with much more confidence than in Qatar.
“♓I had a normal couple of weeks at home, and I had 𒁃the chance to ride bikes. The confidence is much more.
“We approach this weekend knowing that we have ground 🐲to recover.
“The confidence i💜s the fact that I did two normal weeks, when I was home, instead of the recovery weeks that I did between the accident and the first r🦋ace.
“I had zero tꦺests. Everything I went through, generall▨y, in that period…”
He added about the past fortnight since Qatar: “I was will༒ing to start normal traini𝕴ng as soon as possible. I felt good.
“My body reacted very well. I a🌺m really pleased by that.”
Morbidelli was asked about his earꦺliest indications abo𓃲ut the GP24, which Pecco Bagnaia won the Qatar MotoGP with, and which his teammate Jorge Martin rode to victory in the sprint.
He replied: “It needs to be ridden fast!
“Pecco and Jorge ride in faster than every other Ducati. It🔯 needs to be ridden in t🤪hat way.”
Morbidelli also enters the Portuguꦦese MotoGP after news that Ducati have signed up F🌳ermin Aldeguer for 2025.
It is expected, but ꦬunconfirmed, that Aldegue🎀r will be placed in the Pramac team.
Martin’s future is expectℱed to be elsewhere, either at the factory Ducati team or a rival manufacturer.

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