Randy de Puniet said he would be back in time for the upcoming Brno GP round and to test his fitness, just 22 days after breaking his tibia and fibula and a very intense recovery program, the French MotoGP rider was at the Circuit d’Ales today riding a Honda CBR 1000.
De Puniet who was already walking without crutches eight days after his operation did about twenty laps with a best time around 1.
20s on the French circuit said he took it easy: “without forcing to see if everything was okay.
”French website Sportbikes.
fr got this brief interview from the LCR Honda rider after his fitness test: “okay, it’s not as bad as I thought.
The first run was a little difficult because you feel a little pain when you take knocks on the fracture, but the second went better I become mobile and in the end I didn’t feel too much pain.
You always think you’re going to, but until you are on the bike, you can’t really know.
I’m relieved and I think it will go to Brno, even though I’m not 100%.
“De Puniet will now have to obtain clearance from the medical staff at Brno on Thursday before he will be allowed to ride, but considering that he’s already walking without crutches and that his fractures were not compound, the clearance will be a mere formality.