Suzuki has confirmed that MotoGP rider Alex Rins has suffered an ankle fracture in training following last weekend’s season-opener in Qatar.
Rins, 21, stepped up from Moto2 at the end of last year to take a factory ride with Suzuki, partnering Andrea Iannone.
Rins finished ninth on debut in Qatar, but suffered a fracture to his right ankle after a motocross accident while training earlier this week, putting him in doubt for the next race in Argentina.
"[Rins] finally decided to have some tests done at the University Hospital Dexeus in Barcelona (Spain). There he underwent further examination which diagnosed a small fracture in the talus bone of the right ankle,” Suzuki confirmed in a statement.
“The doctors who evaluated the Spanish rider, led by Dr. Xavier Mir, Head of the Hand Unit, a top Orthopedic Surgeon, and Coordinator of the MotoGP Traumatology Service, and Eugenio Gimeno, Head of the foot Unit Hospital Quiron-Dexeus, concluded after a CT scan that Rins had a partial fracture of the right talus, without displacement, but with bone edema.
“After consulting with his colleagues in the Department of Traumatology, the medical team has decided to carry out non-surgical treatment with magnetotherapy and physiotherapy, and they will examine the rider next Monday in the same clinic for a check-up before traveling to Argentina.”
The next race in Argentina will take place at the Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo on April 9.