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Jorge Lorenzo’s pre-season will continue in Qatar after announcing confirmation that he will participate in the
last official testing, scheduled for Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March.
The 22 year old had a bone his right
thumb broken whilst training four weeks ago. He has been unable to participate in the second test at Sepang, however
has been cleared to race machine after recovering well at home in Barcelona.
Physiotherapy will continue to assist
in keeping the muscle around the break healing. The Spanish racer’s doctor has announced there is no risk to the broken
bone and he will need to wait until the commencement of testing, in order to assess whether he will be able to use the brake
to full strength.
“Today we are leaving for Qatar for the last winter test,” says Lorenzo. “I
think that it is important that we are there. The fracture happened less than five weeks ago, but we could not have missed
this last test because it would have been negative for our preparation; we are not far from the first race of the season!
The doctor has made a special carbon fibre protection and Dainese have modified my glove, in order to further protect the
fracture, so we will see how we get on.”
Lorenzo’s Team Manager, Wilco Zeelenberg, comments, “We
are happy that Jorge will be back for this last pre-season test at Qatar! Of course we have had to miss a whole test but we
are confident that we can make up for lost time because the 2010 bike proved to be very competitive the first time we used
it. We will have to wait to see how Jorge's hand feels when he starts riding, but we do not take anything for granted.
Yamaha will give him all the support and time he needs to return to full strength.”
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