He travels to England with a nail inside his left femur and without having fully consolidated the callus of the bone
The young rider from Murcia, 18 years old and current Moto3 world champion, dreams of being able to reappear on the legendary track
Everything seems to indicate that the great surprise, the great novelty, in the return of the Motorcycle World Championship after the long month of vacations that caused the suspension of the Finnish Grand Prix, is the attempt to reappear that the young Murcian Pedro Acosta, from 18 years old, current Moto3 world champion, in the Moto2 category, one month after being operated on by doctor Ignacio Ginebreda for a complicated fracture of the left femurwhich, at first, was believed to be clean and, later, it turned out to be somewhat more complicated, although nothing that one of the most prestigious surgeons of the Institut Quirón Dexeus could not solve in the operating room.
Acosta, who fractured his femur while practicing motocross, just after finishing second in the German Grand Prix and before traveling to Assen for the Dutch Grand Prix, was reviewed, last Friday, by Dr. Ginebreda and despite the fact that the fracture is not fully healedthe fixation is stable enough to think that the ‘shark of Mazarrón’ may try, tomorrow, to pass the control of the doctors of the Silverstone circuit, where this weekend the World Championship resumes with the British Grand Prix .
We are again, obviously, in the typical situation where the doctors recommend a certain amount of caution and the riders want to take risks to continue competing. Acosta, who after winning brilliantly in Italy, euphorically declared that “we are here, we are back & rdquor ;, he has the feeling that, despite being 71 points behind the two leaders, the Italian Celestino Vietti and the Spanish Augusto Fernándezprecisely Acosta’s partner in the ‘team’ of the Finnish Aki Ajo KTM Red Bull, is still in time to complicate their conquest of the title as there are nine races and 225 points at stake.
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Acosta’s left femur is welded, yes, but does not yet have enough bone callus to consider that it is already consolidated. It is evident that the demanding control to which Acosta will be subjected tomorrow, in the Silverstone circuit hospital, will decide whether or not he can go out in the first training sessions on Friday, but experience shows that these gladiators always pass these tests, not only because of the passion they feel and put into running again but because their recovery capacity is enormous and, since he underwent surgery, the ‘Mazarrón shark’, which He already started to put his foot down 24 hours after leaving the operating room, he has not stopped exercising in the gym for a single day and work with all kinds of muscle and bone stimulating machines.