Marco Bezzecchi
Jorge Martin is out of this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix after suffering his fourth major injury of the 2025 season. Martin collided with Aprilia teammate Marco Bezzecchi at the start of the Japanese GP Sprint.
Aprilia confirmed that Martin had suffered a displaced fracture of his right collarbone in the incident. After scans at a nearby hospital, he returned to the circuit but took no part in the race.
The 2024 world champion then flew back to Europe and underwent his latest operation on Tuesday. With five rounds of the season remaining, Aprilia haven’t issued a return timeline, preferring to wait until they can see the speed of his recovery.
Bezzecchi’s Sprint race was ended by the contact. He escaped with bruising, and managed to progress from ninth to fourth in the main Grand Prix.
Marco Bezzecchi’s damning verdict on Jorge Martin after Motegi crash
After this weekend’s race at Mandalika, Martin will be up to 23 absences for the year (including Sprints). He missed the first three rounds after crashing a supermoto bike in the winter, and then the next seven after a severe incident in Qatar.
According to The Race’s Simon Patterson, Martin has now admitted that he was partly responsible for those two injuries. The first was in a somewhat risky private test, and the second may have been a result of coming back too soon – though he was unlucky to be hit by Fabio di Giannantonio’s bike as he fell.
And on Saturday, Neil Hodgson called Martin ‘silly’ as he dived to the inside at the first corner. He’d started 17th and was, in the opinion of Bezzecchi, overly eager to make up ground.
“This has been the trend of Jorge’s season,” said Patterson. “It’s been quite self-destructive at every point, on and off the bike. I did a one-on-one interview with him, and for the first time, he admitted that the crash in Qatar, the one that did all the damage, was self-inflicted.
“He fell off because he ran out of energy, because he shouldn’t have been back so quickly. The training crash where he broke his wrist was because he was riding a supermoto on a cold track. It was kind of self-inflicted.
“Apart from the very first crash in Sepang, that has been the trend of the year. It’s just felt like a series of own goals this year, for him.
“Marco Bezzecchi didn’t do any media on Saturday, but we spoke to him on Sunday, and he was like disappointed dad, almost – ‘I’m really sorry he should have got hurt, but he should have known better’. He’s completely right.”
What exactly did Marco Bezzecchi say about Jorge Martin incident?
The Race’s podcast featured a clip from Bezzecchi’s media debrief, where he described Martin’s manoeuvre as ‘too much’. He says there’s no issue between the two riders, whose relationship seems to have improved as teammates after past rivalries.
“I never had any problem with Jorge,” said Bezzecchi. “As I said to him in Italian, the mistake for me was a bit too much considering where he started compared to myself. I’m sure he realised immediately, but we never had anything wrong.”
A tearful Martin apologised to Bezzecchi in the paddock at the weekend. There was a short meeting in the Spaniard’s quarters where the incident was reviewed.
Martin entered the year with the number one plate, but he’s stalled out in 20th in the championship. By the time he returns, he may be the lowest-ranking full-time rider, aside from LCR rookie Somkiat Chantra.
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