Pecco Bagnaia Had Successful Surgery in Turin. With Two Races Left as a Ducati, There Is No Timeline for His Return

Pecco Bagnaia went under the knife on Tuesday morning in Turin, and the news is good. The bad news is what it means for the only thing he has left to win with a Ducati: a championship he is not going to win, and two rounds he may never ride. The double-world-champion had surgery to fix double fractures of the fourth and fifth metatarsals in his right foot, a plate secured to the fourth metatarsal, and on Tuesday afternoon Ducati still could not give him a date for his return. Portimao is in ten days. It might be the last time Bagnaia ever turns a wheel in a Ducati GP26. Three seconds of braking The crash happened on the final lap of the opening lap of Saturday’s Qatar sprint, and it lasted about three seconds of committed, unavoidable braking. Fermin Aldeguer, Gresini, was fighting his Red Bull KTM teammate Pedro Acosta, who had exited Turn 15 badly. Aldeguer saw a gap at the last corner and committed.

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