Injured Michele Pirro rages at “bowling” crash: “I am very angry”
The Ducati test and ꧟reserve rider was racing in the title decider of the Italian Superbike (🌄CIV) series when he was clattered by Lorenzo Zanetti, costing him a chance to defend his accolade.
Pirr♋o has since had surgery o🐭n a fractured left leg.
“He said norm🎉al race contact,” Pirro sarcastically commented on social media about Zanetti’s manoeuvre.
𒁏“I missed that there was bowlin🦩g at the Imola Circuit!
“How sad for sport, you a𝕴ccept something like this if you have a technical problem or an🉐 illness but not if you have a rider’s licence, with the risk of hurting others.
“I repeat, I am not interested i🌄n the Championship, I am intereste꧒d in my health and above all in preventing young people from taking these examples, or as stated either ‘gravel or glory’.
“I'm very angry🦄 because I'm suffering physicalꦯly from something that could have been avoided.”
He later con🌊firmed 💟from his hospital bed that he’d had “four screws and a few stitches”.
Pirro became the latest Ducati rider t✅o be injured, a day after Marco Bezzecchi broke his collarbone in training.
Luca Mari💦ni, recovering from his own collarbone injury, will fly to the Indonesian MotoGP this 🅺weekend.
But Bezzecch💝i’s participation is in doubt, and regular replacement Pirro is now sidelined too.
Alex Marquez of Gresini Ducati and f💝actory rider Enea Bastianini also have their own physical problems ahead of Mandalika.
James was a sports journalist at Sky🧔 Sports❀ for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
