Inj🔯ured nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi has confirmed that, on paper, Motegi is the most likely venue for his MotoGP comeback.

But the Italian 'will try' and be fit for Aragon, which starts just 22 days - compared🐽 with 42 days for Motegi - after he broke his right tibia and fibula in an eওnduro training accident.

“A lot depends on how my leg is," reports Rossi as saying💟, in an extract of a TV interview to be broadcast on Sky Sports Italy this evening.

"In my head, I was thinking Moꦡtegi, but it's hard to make predictio♔ns. We need to see how my leg is, how it reacts, whether we can push it a little, move it, whether it swells, we need to see how I am.

"Last time [after breaking his legꦗ in 2⭕010] I was back on track after 40 or 41 days and so with that kind of time frame we're looking at Motegi.

"Aragon is long before that, because it would be three weeks after the accident. So it will be really difficult, but꧋ we'll try. Every day we try, we work and then we'll see”🉐.

R൩ossi, ✃whose injury means he will definitely miss his home event at Misano this weekend, also gave details of exactly how the accident happened.

“I went for a⛎n enduro ride with my friends and the other Acadeไmy riders. It's a ride I've been doing since I was 18… it's something I've done 200 times. We were almost at the end, on quite a steep downhill. We were going slow, in second gear, but there was a rocky step.

"As I took it, the handlebar moved, as if I'd hit a stone. I went down on ཧmy right foot, but there was a jolt and when my foot went down with my body weight and that of the bike behind it, my leg broke. I was only about 400 metres from the en💮d."

The Movistar Yamaha is currently f﷽ourth in the world championship, 26 points behind Andrea Dovizioso, with six rounds remaining.