Alex Rins has been discharged from hospital just over two weeks on from his nasty crash during the Italian Grand Prix sprint race that left him with a broken leg.
The LCR Honda rider crashed at the ultra-fast Turn 8 right-hander at Mugello in the early stages of the half-distance encounter, an incident that caused him to sustain a broken tibia and fibula in his right leg and thus miss the Italian GP as a result.
The Spaniard has since been forced to remain in hospital with a leg brace in order to help with the healing process, which has now progressed far enough for him to return home to further continue his recovery.
As a result of his injury Rins was also forced to skip the recent German and Dutch outings that made up the first triple-header event of the season along with the Italian event, with MotoGP now beginning a five-week summer break until resuming with the British GP at Silverstone in early August.
Rins’ return for the British round of the series currently looks unlikely, with Takaaki Nakagami likely to be joined by Honda test rider Stefan Bradl – the German having stepped in for Rins at Assen last weekend.
Rins currently remains the only one of Honda’s four full-time riders to stand on the grand prix rostrum so far in 2023 courtesy of his stand-out victory at the Circuit of the Americas back in April, while a further pair of top ten results currently leaves him 13th in the overall standings despite having essentially failed to score in the last five rounds due to DNF’s in Spain and France also.
