Jorge Martin Misses Sepang Test After Surgeries

Jorge Martin, the 2024 MotoGP world champion, faces another setback at the outset of the 2026 season after undergoing two corrective surgeries in recent weeks for lingering injuries from his troubled 2025 campaign with Aprilia. The procedures, aimed at repairing his left scaphoid bone and right collarbone, have left the Spanish rider unlikely to participate in the opening preseason test at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia from February 3 to 5.

Martin initially injured his left scaphoid and right hand, along with fractures in his left foot, during a high-speed crash on the first day of 2025 preseason testing at the same Sepang track. That incident forced him to miss the rest of the winter program and delayed his season debut. Complications mounted when a supermoto training accident just before the Thai Grand Prix caused further damage to his left radius, heel, and ribs. He finally returned for the Qatar Grand Prix in April, only to suffer his most severe crash there: a high-speed collision with VR46 rider Fabio Di Giannantonio resulted in 11 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung, sidelining him for months.

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