– Marco Bezzecchi had a serious crash for the second race weekend in a row. In Assen, the Italian got off lightly, but at the Sachsenring he broke his left collarbone. He crashed in qualifying in turn 7.
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“I arrived at the Sachsenring and still had some pain from Assen,” the Aprilia rider recalls. “I was not at one hundred percent, and I knew that.”
“The plan was simple: take it step by step, check session by session how I felt, and not force anything that couldn’t be forced. Friday went better than I expected.”
“Seventh in practice, made it into Q2. That was by no means a given, considering where I came from. The race pace looked good, there was something to build on.”
“I told myself: ‘Okay, we are on a good path.’ Saturday in Q2, second run, turn 7. I lost control of the rear tire at 140 km/h. Highsider, crash, gravel trap.”
“I returned to the pits on the back seat of a scooter and already knew something was wrong. The X-ray at the Medical Center confirmed what I feared.”
Bezzecchi had sustained a complete and displaced fracture of the left collarbone. He immediately traveled back to Italy. Surgery was performed on Sunday morning.
Aprilia expects Bezzecchi to race again after the summer break in Silverstone. But the coming weeks will show if that is actually possible.
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“It’s not how I would have wished, but it is what it is. Now it’s: keep your head down, recovery, physiotherapy, and everything necessary to get back on the bike in the best possible shape.”
In the world championship, Bezzecchi has dropped back to third place because he only scored 13 points in the last four race weekends. In Hungary, he was taken out at the start by his teammate Jorge Martin.
In Brno, after a crash in the sprint, Bezzecchi slapped a race official and was suspended for the Grand Prix. In Assen he retired due to a crash, and now the injury at the Sachsenring was added.
“A tough one and a half months,” sighs the Italian. “Hungary, Brno, Assen, Germany. Four weekends to forget, each for a different reason. It hurts, I won’t deny that.”
“But one thing I know for sure: It’s a tough moment. But we are tougher.” In the days after the Sachsenring, Bezzecchi received a special honor.
The event “Moto d’Italia – Cultura oltre la pista” (“Motorcycles of Italy – Culture beyond the racetrack”) took place at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus was a speech by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
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Both Bezzecchi and Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia were appointed ambassadors of sports diplomacy. Bezzecchi participated in the event via video link.
