Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin is set to make his Aprilia race debut this weekend at the Qatar Grand Prix🤪.

Th🐽e Spaniard has been out of action since suffering multiple fractures in a crash on the opening day of testing at Sepang, which forced him out of the rest of the pre-season.

Then he injured himself further in a training incident prior to the Thai Grand Prix, which meant🍸 he missed the first 🌳three rounds of the season.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin is travelling to Qatar this week to make his Aprilia debut, pending a final med🦩ical check at the circuit this Thursday.

“Great news that he’s coming back, really,” Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren 🌜sa🎶id on the latest Crash MotoGP Podcast.

“Great news to have the world champion ba🔯ck, the number one plate, great news for Aprilia obviously.

“[He’s] their big, star signing and they haven’t been able to race with him yet. It will be interesting൩ to see what he can do when he steps onto this bike he’s barely ridden this y💯ear.

“It’s a very different bike now. The Aprilia has done quite well, we know Martin is quite good at Qatar, he’s had some good performan🌸ces over the years right from his debut.

“That will help a little bit, but the big question mark is the fitness. What are we talking about, 10 fractures, the trainiౠng accident a few days before the Thai Grand Prix.

“He hasn’t ꦯbeen able to get this test that they wanted to get done, but if he’s going there he’s confident h𝔉e can last the whole weekend.

“We don’t know how much pain he’s going to be in, 🗹we don’t know how fast he’ll be. He’ll grit his teeth and pull out a lap, I think. The race distance will be the big question mark.

Podcast host and Cra☂sh Social Media Manager Jordan Morelan🅘d added: “It’s more mentally, I think, than physically that it will be difficult because the adrenaline runs through these riders like no other and the pain kind of disappears.

“It’s the mental aspect𒀰, but he’s very strong on that si⛎de too, I’ll give him that credit.”

While not much will be expected from Martin in terms of performance, Crash Senior Journalist Lewis D🌞uncan also argues that Aprilia must take a very cautious approach to its rider.

“It will be importℱant for Aprilia to temper his own♔ expectations when he jumps on the bike,” he says.

“This is essentially a three-day test coming up for hi🌱m. I don’t think it would be reasonable to be looking at him even getting throug🦩h to Q2, to be honest with you.

“You can’t have 45 minutes in FP1 and then essentially 40 minutes before putting a l♛ap when you’ve had 13 laps this yeܫar on the bike, 90 in total.

“Martin and Aprilia neeꦗd to go into it step by step. And also, the really important thing here is that Aprilia need to be strong if Martin is not fit, if he’s sore, if he’s struggling, they have to intervene and say ‘look, we don’t care what you say, we don’t care what the doctor says, we’re going to bench you if you’re not fully fit because you’ve missed races already, if we miss you for another four, five, six races, we might not get you back’.

“This is the problem with these injuries: you injure something once, it becomes weaker🥀.

“The fact he’s done the same thing again and it was 𒀰a more complicated fracture - the kind of fracture that ends careers - I think Aprilia needs to be🔥 firm with Martin.

“Make sure𝓀 he is sensible and make sure his expectations are in check: you just go in, put laps in, understand the bike.

“If there is pace there, good, but there’s no real n💙eed for him to do anything resembling a full-blown pole time attack lap.”