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

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli returns to Portimao thiওs weekend, the scene of his conce𒁏rning crash during preseason.
Morbidelli lost control of a Panigale V4S in J🌌anuary at the track in Portugal, and was hospitalised after being knocked unconscious🌳.
As a result, he missed the entirety of MotoGP preseason testing and was forced to use the season-opening round i💧n Qatar as practice on his Ducati.
This weekend’s Portuguese MotoGP, the second round 🐬of the 2024 season, offers Morbidelli his next chance to adjust to his new Pramac Ducati teamღ.
“There is nothing negative about approaching this track,” Morbidelli said when remembering his r♔ecent crash.
“The first reasonꦜ is because this track is beautiful.
“I had an accident, yes. A s꧒erious accident. But such a strange acciden🌺t.
“An unreplic🦩able accident. Technically, it cannot affect my thinking.
“It was something difficult to happen again.
“Also, because I am doing what I love to do.
“There is nothing to slow my progress do🍬wn at this track.”
Morbidelli’s physical recovery from his crash in January has ▨largely concluded meaning he can ramp up his progress on the GP24, albeit later th🔯an any of his MotoGP rivals.
He said about Portimao this weekend: “We will keep going for our acclimatisation to the new bike, but with mu🍰ch more confidence than in Qatar.
“I had a normal couple of weeks at home, and I had the chanceꦕ to ride bikes. The confidence is much more.
“We approach this weekend knowing that we have gr🥃ound to recover.
“The confidence is the fact that I did two normal wee🍸ks, when I was home, instead of the recovery weeks that I did between the accident and the first race.
“I had zero tests. Everything I went through, generally,🗹 in that period…”
He added about the past fortnight since Qatar: “I was willing to ꧟start normal training as soon as pos🐷sible. I felt good.
“My body reacted very well. I am real🌳ly pleased by that.”
Morbidelli was asked about his earliest indications about 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 t🎃han every 🐭other Ducati. It needs to be ridden in that way.”
Morbidelli also enters the Portuguese MotoGP after news thatꦬ Ducꦏati have signed up Fermin Aldeguer for 2025.
Iඣt is expected, but uncon🐷firmed, that Aldeguer will be placed in the Pramac team.
Martin’s future is 🐭expected to be ꦏelsewhere, either at the factory Ducati team or a rival manufacturer.

James was a sports journ꧃alist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.