Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin has made a nightmare start to his title defence in 2025, potentially suffering an injury at the very beginning of the Sepang test.
Martin's status for the three days at Sepang is now in doubt with just 13 laps completed, following a crash less than two hours into Wednesday's running.
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The new Aprilia rider was taken to the medical centre after a big highside at Turn 2, in which his helmet struck the ground face first as he landed, damaging the visor. He was then immediately redirected to hospital in nearby town Nilai with "left foot and right hand pain".
The fall was already his second of the day, the first a highside at Turn 1 less than an hour prior.
Aprilia had planned to use the first day as a day of acclimatisation for Martin and fellow new hire Marco Bezzecchi, starting off with the RS-GP '25 prototypes they had run in Barcelona in post-season testing last year before moving over to the newer prototypes.
But Martin's crash - even if he can return to action at Sepang on Thursday or Friday - will throw a wrench into what was an "already set" test programme.
So will the fact satellite team Trackhouse also had a significant crash of its own, with Raul Fernandez - who didn't get to run a '25 prototype in Barcelona - sustaining a left hand metacarpal fracture and a left little toe fracture in an early crash of his own (pictured below).
