The Tech3 KTM rider now looks to have one last chance, on Frida🦩y morning, to convince doctors he is able to ride in what should be his first home premier-class Spani𒈔sh Grand Prix.

“They said tomorrow I ha🔯ve to do another [test] because the first one they said ‘no, you cannot race like that, still unfit’,” Fernandez said. “Tomorrow I will do another check and if they say that I am more-or-less good I will try.

“For normal life it’s not really bad, but it’s still painful when I want to do some exercises like𝔉 push-ups or something,” he added of his hand, which he injured wh♚ile riding with slicks on the damp Portimao track.

“It’s a strange feeling because 𝔍I’ve nev🌠er [missed] one race and now maybe I will lose two.”

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First part of the season ‘a disaster’

Fernandez, runner-up to team-mate Remy Gardner in last year’s Moto2 World Championsh🏅ip, is among three rookies yet to score points in the premier-class.

“In general I have a good feeling, honestly, but the beginning of the season was really strange for all the riders,” he said. “Argentina with the first day removꦐed. In America, I felt really bad with the stomach. Indonesia with the wet conditions was crazy. A♓nd now the crazy and stupid crash from Portugal.

“When you have a very crazy track or very difficult track, to do one mistake is easy. It was a stupid mistak𓂃e because I don’t push and I [still] crash. But 🔯I’m a rookie and I had never tried the Michelins in mixed [wet/dry] conditions."

Adding that “it’s all part of the learning process” and that he was mentally prepared for tough times at the start of his MotoGP career, Fernandez admitted: “It’s๊ been really difficult… The first part of the season is really a disaster honestly. But anyway, it’s just the first part of the season.”

Should Fernandez be unable to participate this weekend ♊;he must pin his hopes on a return for the Monday test, a rare chance for track time away from the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a MotoGP event.

“In th♐e test, you have time to prepare something different, something on the bike to improve,” he said. “But now we need to see what happens if we can do the te🗹st or not.

“In the race weekend, you don’t have time to prepare or try something different on the bike. It’s too short. [Also] for this﷽ reason it’s harder to close the gap.”

Team-mate Gardner starts the Spanish weekend with three points, ♋putting him second in the early rookie standings behind Darryn Binder (RNF Yamaha), who claimed tenth place in the wet Man🐻dalika race.