Injured Michele Pirro rages at “bowling” crash: “I am very angry”
The Ducati test and reserve rider was racing in the title decider of the Italian Superbike (CIV) series when he was clattered by Lorenzo Zanetti, costing him a chance to defend his accolad🐭e.
Pirro has since had surgery on a fractured 🍒left leg.
“He said normal rac♒e contact,” Pirro sarcastically commented on social mediaܫ about Zanetti’s manoeuvre.
“I missed that there wasﷺ bowling at the Imola Circuit!
“How sad for sport, you accept something like this if you have a techn🧸ical problem or an illness but not if you 𓆏have a rider’s licence, with the risk of hurting others.
“I repeat, I am not🍷 interested in the Championship, I am interested in my health and above all in preventing young people from taking these examples, or as stated either ‘gravel or glory’.
“I'm very angry becausꦓe I'm suffe𝓡ring physically from something that could have been avoided.”
He later confirmed 🔯from his hospital bed that he’d had “four screws and a few stitches”.
Pirro becameꦦ the latest Ducati rider to be injured, a day after Marco Bezzecchi broke his collarbone in training.
Luca Mar𒀰ini, recovering from his own collarbone injury, will fly to the Indonesian MotoGP this weekend.
But Bezzecchi’s parti🐓cipation is in doubt, 💛and regular replacement Pirro is now sidelined too.
Alex Marquez of Gresini Ducati and factory rider Enea Bastianini also have their own p🏅hysical problems ahead of⭕ Mandalika.
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