“I have had problems again,” communicated Raul Fernandez at the end of the Italian GP and, that brings with it the worst news for the Aprilia rider. In less than a year, the man from Madrid will have to undergo surgery again to undergo surgery for compartment syndrome. The same problem that made him withdraw from the French GP last 2023, It now frustrates a good streak that the Trackhouse rider was having in MotoGP. “Since the beginning of the year I have still had problems with my arm, and on Tuesday I will have to have surgery again. I am happy with the work I have done, but in the last seven laps I had to manage the situation, as I did in the previous race. “It’s the same since the beginning of the year,” he explained after the race, in which he was twelfth.
Therefore, taking advantage of this break in the World Championship until the Netherlands GP, which will be held on June 28, Raúl Fernández will undergo surgery this Tuesday in Barcelona. “I am happy because we have seen the problem, I am happy with the work we are doing, but, honestly, with this it is quite difficult to ride the bike. I had a lot of problems, I did the best I could, I tried to finish the race in a good position. In Barcelona, with Marc Márquez and Aleix Espargaró, I couldn’t fight for the podium because of that.”, he explained.
After finishing the Mugello test, practically unusable due to weather conditions, The pilot of the Aprilia satellite will travel to Barcelona, where he will undergo surgery to put an end to those problems in his arm. It is usually a simple operation and, although it is expected that this time it will be like that, it was not what happened the first time in the case of the Madrid native: just a year ago, that intervention was unusually longer, with a problem that affected up to nine muscles, which left up to three different incisions on his arm.
And, although it had been scheduled for a long time, Raúl did not want to talk about it over the weekend: “I couldn’t talk about it before, because I wanted to be focused. Before coming here, I saw a doctor. We saw that he was coming back. It wasn’t easy for me to really focus on the weekend, but I think we did a good job and I’m happy. Now, we have to think about recovery,” adds the Spaniard who, at least, will have three weeks off when the Kazakhstan GP is postponed.
