“For me, motocross means freedom,” Andrea Dovizioso emphasized in the past, so the Ducati driver often indulges in his passion for off-road sport. The Italian doesn’t just limit himself to training, he already contested a motocross race in Rivarolo in December 2019.
This weekend there was an assignment on the Faenza “Monte Coralli” World Championship course as part of the Regional Motocross Championship, for which Ducati has given him approval. But this did not go as planned, the 34-year-old had to take a fall in the first run and hit his left shoulder. Dovizioso then went to Forli to be examined.
The crash occurred in the first run of the MX2 class, in which the MotoGP star took second place after the start. In the course of the race, however, he had to let some opponents pass before he then fell alone after a jump. At this time, the 23-time GP winner finished ninth. Then he got back on the bike and made his way to his camper. However, he held his left arm close to his body.
A broken collarbone cannot be ruled out at the moment, an X-ray should clarify the condition of the GP star. The delayed start of the MotoGP class season in Jerez is already on the agenda in three weeks. The World Cup runner-up of the past three years has big plans for the 2020 season. «Of course we want to fight for the title. We will only see whether this will be possible in the course of the season. But it is always difficult because there are a lot of fast guys in the field, »he said in April.
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