• Update on Francesco Bagnaia and ꧂Enea Bastianini injuries after Catalunꦑya MotoGP

Bagnaia hi🌠ghsided on the first lap then, when he landed on the ground, his legs were struck by Brad Binder’s KTM.

He was rushed away to hospital but it has since been confirmed that he suffered no major damage🍬.

“I had a lot of luck today. I have to be thankful,” Bagnaia said as he ⛎left hospiඣtal in Barcelona on crutches.

“Sometimes you need to have luck.”

Asked how he highsided, B💖agnaia repl🥃ied: “I don’t know. I had very low grip on the warm-up lap.

“And💃 I just took a very big hit. It was not a normal highside.

“🅠It’s very 🦂hard to understand what happened at the moment.

“For sure, it wasn’t a normal crash.

“The rear grip that I had in the 😼warm-up lap wasn’t normal.”

Astonishingly the factory Ducati rider could return to continue the d🍸efence of his MotoGP championship next weekend.

“We’ll do everything♏ we can to be in Misano, and to do well,” he said.

Bagnaia remains at the summit of the MotoGP standings, aimin🍨𒅌g for a second title in a row.

His teammate Enea Bastianini, though, will need surgery after a separate crash at the Catalunya MotoGP just moments befor🌜e Bagnaia’s.

Every rider dedꩲicated their performance to Bagnaia as he lay in hospital post-race, with Marc Marquez insisting that the entire sport was lucky that no serious harm came to him.

Bagnaia was able to fl༺y back to Italy on Sunday night.