Moto3 title contender Maverick Vinales has undergone reconstructive surgery on his right ring finger, following🌸 a testing accident a🀅t Jerez on Wednesday.

The new Laglisse KTM rider sustained 'loss of tissue in a nail and finger' when it became trapped unde💎r the bike during a fall. The teenager immediately left the test and headed for♛ Barcelona, to undergo further medical checks.

Whilst an operation was initially not thought to be needed, recons✃tructive surgery was indeed carried out on Thursday - when Vinales, a nine tim🌼e grand prix winner during two world championship seasons, should have been taking part in the final day of pre-season testing.

Team manager Pablo Nieto wrote on Twitter: "The surgery for Maverick today in Barcelona has beඣen a success and he will be at 100% in Qatar."

Vinales - denied a clean sweep of all three pre-season tests when Luis Salom edged ahead, in h🐎is absence, on the final day at Jerez - will thus return to action during first practice for the Losail season-opener on April 4.