Pedro Acosta breaks leg in training crash and will undergo surgery
Red Bull KTM Ajo confirmed that their rider🌳’s broken left femur🌟 would be operated on on Wednesday.
He will miss this weekend’s Dutch Moto2 but no timescale has been placed on his retꦺurn yet.
But El Periodico, the Spanish newspaper, report that Acosta will only miss on𝐆e race because, after Assen, Moto2 breaks for five weeks before returning on Augus𒀰t 7 at Silverstone.
The same report says that the 18-year-ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚold sustained his injury while riding motocross, and is already in Barcelona where he will undergo surgery.
Acosta 🌊is currently eighth in the Moto2 standings.
He is the reigning Moto3 champion - last year he becam♓e the first rookie to claim ♉a world title since Loris Capirossi.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sport𝄹s, to football, to F1.
