Joan Mir suffers fracture after French GP collisio...

Joan Mir has suffered a fracture to his proper hand following a first-lap crash on the French Grand Prix so as to add to a tricky 2025 MotoGP season up to now.

After qualifying in fifteenth, he collided with Francesco Bagnaia on the first chicane on the opening lap after the manufacturing facility Ducati rider got here along with Enea Bastianini.

Race winner Johann Zarco narrowly dodged the accident, making contact with Mir because the 2020 world champion went down.

Whereas Bagnaia was in a position to get again on his bike, the Honda rider was unable to proceed and retired from the race which means he has only one factors end within the opening 5 grands prix of 2025.

Together with the fracture to his proper hand, Honda reported he was additionally struggling with neck ache and had been taken to hospital for additional examination.

Bastianini has been penalised for the incident with a long-lap on the subsequent race weekend in Silverstone.

Bagnaia stated after the race: “A race and a weekend to really overlook. We weren’t in a position to take something residence.

“Even with the crash, if I had come again, I may have completed within the high 5. However I needed to cease as a result of the shift paddle was partially blocked – generally the gears would interact and generally they wouldn’t.

“I then returned to the observe with the opposite bike, however nothing labored as we speak, and when issues go mistaken, it’s laborious for them to proper themselves.”

It’s continued unhealthy luck for Mir, who has up to now retired from 5 out of the six characteristic races contested up to now, along with his solely end a ninth in Argentina.

Regardless of some promising qualifying outcomes, together with an eighth in Austin, his season has up to now been plagued by crashes.

Sadly for the 2020 champion, as we speak’s crash caught him within the mistaken place on the mistaken time, as he was collateral injury within the Bagnaia-Bastianini collision.

Honda have stated Mir’s situation will probably be up to date within the coming days.

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