13-18 – San Marino GP – Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as quickly as possible … –

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Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as soon as possible…

13-18 - San Marino GP - Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as quickly as possible ... -

After his fall last night during enduro training, Valentino Rossi was operated on last night for his fractured right leg. This morning, the nine-time world champion ensures that he feels good and will try to get back on the track as quickly as possible, but his tenth title chances are now seriously compromised… Balance sheet.

“The operation went well and this morning when I woke up, I already felt good,” says Valentino Rossi from his hospital bed where he was admitted last night after his. First transferred to the Civil Hospital of Urbino, his hometown, the nine-time world champion was then transferred overnight to the hospital of Torrette, in Ancona, where he was operated on early this morning..

"I am really disappointed, I hope to get back on my bike as soon as possible and I will do my best to achieve it!", Assures the nine-time world champion who thanks "the whole team of the Riuniti hospital in Ancona, and particularly doctor Pascarella who operated on me ".

According to Raffaele Pascarella, director of the orthopedics and traumatology department which carried out the intervention, Rossi will have to remain immobilized "at least 40 days", which may allow him to hope for a return on October 15..

Bis repetita…

This is Rossi’s second hospitalization this year. In May, the Doctor had already been a victim but only suffered from .

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In 2010, he had already fallen during the free practice of and had to make a cross on four Grands Prix (Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Catalonia), which had cost him the title…

13-18 - San Marino GP - Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as quickly as possible ... -

This time the victim of a fractured tibia and fibula in his right leg, the genius of the mountain pastures sees his last hopes of winning a tenth world title in the motorcycle Grand Prix in 2017. But did he objectively have the means ?

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At 38, will he be able to get back on the track as quickly this year as he was 7 years ago, to save what can still be in the championship where he currently occupies 4th place? At this stage, impossible to say, even if no complications were observed during the intervention of the doctors who asked him a reinforcement to reduce the fracture..

Package until the Pacific tour ?

The fact remains that even if he manages to speed up his convalescence again in record time, Rossi will no longer be in contention for the world title: the severity of his injuries means that the Italian will at least miss the Grand Prix of Misano next week and that of Aragon on September 24.

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At best, the Doctor may consider a return for the Pacific tour which kicks off in Japan on October 15. Either in six weeks…

This obligation to forfeit at least two torpedo races for sure the season of the Italian, who is currently at 26 points from the leader Dovizioso (157 points Vs 183), 17 points from Marquez (174) and 13 points of Viñales (170). The gap will quickly climb, even though his rivals also suffer a few setbacks during his absence. Not to mention that Rossi will be quickly caught and overtaken by Dani Pedrosa, fifth in the provisional nine short lengths behind the Italian (148 points)…

No tenth title for Rossi this year

This new injury comes at the worst for the maestro of Tavullia, who was still able – at least on an accounting plan … – to cap his 10th world crown in Grand Prix this year: mathematically, the Doctor could still be world champion 2017 since there are six races to go, or 150 points to distribute.

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Especially since this 2017 season is particularly competitive and unpredictable: the strong men of the Top 5 all have their ups and downs depending on the circuits and the tires made available by Michelin. So much so that according to the defending champion, Marc Marquez, each race must be approached without certainty or acquired.

However, sportingly this time, the game would not have been easy for Rossi…

Admittedly, the dean of the premier class is still in the game, continuing to give a hard time to much younger rivals … starting with his own teammate, Maverick Viñales, 22, with whom the gap of age is still 16 years old !

But if Valentino Rossi regularly continues to play placed (5 podiums in 12 races), achieving victory becomes difficult for him and he has so far only had one success, at Assen.

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The comparison with the three men who precede him in the championship is edifying: "DesmoDovi" has won four times, while Marquez and Viñales have each climbed three times on the top step of the podium. Third in Qatar then second in Argentina and Austin, Rossi had started the 2017 season rather well..

13-18 - San Marino GP - Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as quickly as possible ... -

However, the double signed by his new team-mate Maverick Viñales over the first two races confirms what the winter testing had suggested: on a strict level of pure speed, the Italian is dominated by his new box neighbor. As he was before, on this specific aspect, by his former teammate Jorge Lorenzo…

Tenth in Jerez because of the grip problems encountered on the M1, the Doctor then sets the bar magnificently at Le Mans: the Yamaha official takes the lead of the race and seems to be heading for victory … until his teammate – again him! – don’t come and put pressure on him in the last laps. Overtaken by Viñales, Rossi gets carried away in a burst of pride and falls: he then loses the race and the head of the world championship…

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Despite a rib injury that occurred during off-road training (already!), The Italian continued with a fourth place in front of his home crowd at Mugello. The next race in Catalonia will be more difficult, with eighth place at the finish. But the n ° 46 does not let it be told and signs in the wake of his first victory of the season in the Netherlands on the circuit of Assen! This is followed by a fifth place in Germany and a fourth place in the Czech Republic, which confirm his ability to run for the frontiers..

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Seventh in Austria, the Doctor had just secured a fine third place at Silverstone after leading the race for 17 laps.

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And here again, the scenario of the British GP is revealing of some of its difficulties: the nine-time world champion collapsed at the end of the race, deploring the excessive wear of the tires generated by the 2017 vintage of the Yamaha M1 . A problem he has been complaining about since the start of the season, and which is ironically much less marked on the 2016 M1s of Zarco and Folger…

However, the race of his teammate Viñales shows that solutions exist to circumvent this problem: started with a softer tire at the rear, the Spaniard engaged in a wise race before sounding the charge in the last laps . It even took a long time for "Mack" to steal the victory from Dovizioso! Viñales therefore successfully used a strategy opposite to that of his illustrious box neighbor, ill inspired on this occasion despite his very long experience..

2018, the final season of The Doctor ?

At this stage therefore, continuing to designate Valentino Rossi among the favorites for the title was objectively delicate: he himself had repeatedly expressed his doubts on this subject, justifying this observation by the fact that the Honda and the Ducati had progressed throughout. of the season while the Yamaha were treading water.

Still with this same M1 2017, his teammate Viñales is only 13 points behind the leader despite two white results in Austin and Assen…

13-18 - San Marino GP - Injured in the leg, Rossi will do his best to come back as quickly as possible ... -

Irony of fate: Valentino Rossi broke his leg the same day he had obtained the first of his nine titles 20 years earlier … It was in fact on August 31, 1997 that he had won his first world crown , in 125cc, at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic. Rossi, very superstitious, will he see it as a bad omen, which could be enough to precipitate his withdrawal from the Grands Prix, often mentioned ?

"As long as I have this speed and that I will be able to fight with the top pilots, I will continue," he promised again Sunday at Silverstone at the finish of his 300th Grand Prix in the premier class, the 360th all categories confused.

For the genius of the Alpages, under contract with Yamaha until the end of 2018, the cause was heard: he would only hang up his gloves when he would no longer be able to be in front..

This magnificent ambition risks being called into question with this new injury, the second really serious to occur in his long career….

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