Ben Spies is going to grit his teeth and will be racing at Valencia this weekend and you can bet that he’ll be testing the factory Yamaha M1 for the first time on Tuesday and Wednesday, but he’s thinks that he may have to undergo surgery on his left ankle as soon as the MotoGP season is over and the test ban goes into effect.
The Yamaha Tech3 rider crashed out on the sighting lap at Estoril before heading to the grid line-up, dislocating his ankle and aggravating his previous injury that he first picked up during the third round at Le Mans and then at the Silverstone GP.
“The injury has not affected me in a lot of races this season, but if I had not been racing I probably would have had the surgery to fix it,” Spies said.
“Now I’ve just got understand what happens at Valencia this week, and if I stay for the test or if I have surgery the day I get home.
I might even have to take more time to diagnose something – there is definitely something wrong.
The surgery would be for the ligament,” he said.
“The x-rays shows there is no sign of a fracture now, which is good, but ligaments and tendons can be worse.
Something is definitely not right but I can’t speculate and my intention is to go to Valencia and race and then decide what to do.
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