Dovizioso faces surgery after fall
Italian MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso will have surgery on Saturday after fracturing his right collarbone in a fall from a motocross bike
in training, his Yamaha Tech3 team said.
Team manager Hervé Poncharal told the MotoGP web site that, with three weeks before the first test of the year at Sepang in Malaysia, he
was not too concerned.
"Both Colin (Edwards) and Cal (Crutchlow) recovered very quickly from similar injuries last season," said the Frenchman.
The rider's manager Simone Batistella added: "As far as the Sepang Test goes, the first impressions of the medics who examined him
are that he should not have any major problems, and they expect and hope for a speedy recovery. (On Saturday) he'll have an operation and
then we'll know if everything's going to plan or if there are any problems. The only certainty is that he'll have a slight delay to his
preparations for Sepang."
Dovizioso, third in the championship last season with Honda, suffered the accident on Thursday. He will be operated on in Bologna by the
same surgeon who attended last year to nine times world champion Valentino Rossi.