Kawasaki Racing Team MXGP’s Romain Febvre suffered a heavy crash in the second moto of the Spanish round of the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship at Almonte in Andalucia after a third-place finish in race one but fortunately has no serious injuries.
Febvre was aiming for another solid weekend that would put him on the podium. After finishing third in the first race, he was defending that position from pressure by Tim Gajser in the second. Unfortunately, the battle ended with a hard crash on the tenth lap. His bike’s front wheel hit a soft bank, causing it to break and making him lose control. Febvre took a hard blow to the chest as he was thrown over the handlebars.
After needing several minutes to recover he returned to the paddock on foot and examinations in the medical centre showed no broken bones. The incident dropped him to fourth in the series standings after it had appeared that he would be heading to the next round second, just seven points from the red plate.
Antti Pyrhönen (KRT team manager): «Today was a tough day at the office for the entire team. Romain was having another solid weekend and had everything under control with third in the first moto. He also climbed to third in the second moto and was looking at a probable podium until he had one small mistake.
It was quite a nasty crash with a sudden stop in which he hit his stomach. He has been to the medical centre and they took an X-ray. Everything is fine but he took a heavy hit and was in pain; luckily at least there was no worse injury. The most important thing now is for Romain to get healed up; hopefully he can recover quickly and be ready for Switzerland next weekend.»
