“Happy after our doctor's appointment today,” he posted to social media. “The injury keeps a positive evo𝓰lution. 

“We've identified the c🃏ause💫 of the pain and we'll undergo a small surgery to ease it. 

“We won't be at theThailand MotoGP but we keep working to🥂wards a ful🃏l recovery.”

The LCR Honda rider broke his leg a🐻t Mugello and needed two operations to fix it🧜.

He missed seven MotoGP rounds, as a result.

Rins returned in Japan, partaking in only Friday pract🎐ice to ease back. He then finished ninth in the Indian MotoGP.

But his comeback then hit a setback when he was forced toꦿ withd🌳raw from last weekend’s Australian round due to pain in his leg.

Rin🅰s, who won a MotoGP race earlier this year in Texas in Honda’s brightest moment of a drab year, has agreed to join Yamaha f🌠or 2024.