Raul Fernandez expects surgery on arm injury: “If I can’t brake? What can I do?”
The RNF Aprilia rider managed to battle to the end, finishing 15th, but has bemoaned theꦫ physical issues which beset him.
“I had, again, an arm problem,” he said in Jerez.
“I couldn’t stop the bike🌸. I can’t feel my right hand.
“I ꧒went to the doctor to see what we can do because it’s impossible to ride in MotoGP like this. ꦇIt’s impossible.
“I can’t say more about the race. I🎃 ended the race to show respect for Aprilia, for ෴the people working in my team.
“I couldn’t ride the bike like this. It was super d✅ifficult.
“I’ll look for a solution for Le Mans.
“We’ve doꦐne four races and, for three of them, I have had problems.”
Asked if he’d had🅺 surgery on this problem before, Fernandez said: “Never. It is 90% the 🔯solution.
“They want the scan to be clear. We are waiting to see. To be clear where it’꧙s coming from.
“If I can’t brake? What can I do? Nothing!
“The problem now in MotoGP - we have more elec𒀰tronics, more 🔯power, more weight.
“Everything comes with more difficult things.
“Year by year, it is worse.
“On the bike, the first four or five laps are crazy. You cannot stop the b💦ike. It is super-heavy.
“It is a big problem.”
RNF Aprilia could be without both of their riders in two weeks’ ti🍨me at L♚e Mans.
Miguel Oliveira dislocated hi✱s shoulder in a crash with F🐬abio Quartararo and must pass medical checks if he is to compete.
James was a sports j▨ournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
