Aprilia has officially confirmed that reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin will ‘sit out’ the upcoming Buriram test.
That means the Spaniard, injured at Sepang last week, will go into the opening round of the season, also at Buriram, having completed just 13 laps of 2025 pre-season testing.
Martin suffered two highsides in the opening hours of the Malaysian test, with Aprilia and Michelin publicly disagreeing over the cause of the accidents.
Both occurred through Turns 1 and 2, the second sending Martin into a huge somersault before suffering fractures to his right hand and left foot.
The former Pramac Ducati rider then returned to Europe and underwent surgery to repair the hand damage on Friday morning. The fracture to the left foot won’t require an operation.
Upon announcing that Martin has been ‘discharged from the Clinica Dexeus in Barcelona and he will now go back to his home in Andorra’ Aprilia added that ‘Jorge will sit out the Thai test to prepare for the Thai GP as best possible’.
Test rider Lorenzo Savadori will again take over some of Martin’s testing duties.
Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) and Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse) were also injured on day one of the Official Sepang test and are expected to miss the Buriram outing from February 12-13.
The Thai race weekend then starts with Friday practice on February 28.
Martin will go into that event with 90-laps on the RS-GP, but 77 of those came in last November’s Barcelona post-season test on an early prototype of the 2025 bike.
Team-mate Marco Bezzecchi was the top Aprilia at the Sepang test, in eighth place.
