The Aprilia rider was biking at Mugello on Thursday when he had a “huge, huge crash”, injuring his again, arm and “destroying” his heel.
He mentioned he’s now in “a number of ache” and although nothing was damaged within the crash, is unable to make use of his rear brake.
Regardless of his accidents, Espargaro completed ninth within the mixed timings for FP1 and FP2, and can head straight into Q2 on Saturday.
Talking in regards to the crash, he mentioned: “It was a silly factor.
“I made a decision to exit to do two hours and it was fairly foggy yesterday morning, so I mentioned to myself okay, keep within the observe, it’s extra protected.
“Being on observe, I used to be extra relaxed so I used to be utilizing my phone like silly and I had an enormous, huge, huge crash.
“I harm all my again and arm and every thing, huge crash, however this isn’t the most important drawback.
Aleix Espargaro, Aprilia Racing Crew
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“My heel is destroyed, I’ve a number of ache, I’ve a number of blood inside. We eliminated the blood for the second session, I had infiltration however not likely working.
“I’ve a number of ache and I can’t use the rear brake.
“I mentioned sorry to the group many occasions so I’ll attempt my finest as I did immediately to watch out within the final laps to place the bike into Flip 10, I’ll do the identical for Sunday.”
Espargaro added: “I’ve a number of ache. I race in my profession with huge accidents, I destroy each my arms and after one week of operation I race, no drawback.
“I make many occasions the infiltration. After my left heel at Silverstone, I raced on Sunday, it was not a catastrophe.
“However this time it’s nothing damaged but it surely’s stuffed with blood, it’s one thing on the ligament or one thing we’ll uncover on Monday, however for certain there’s something that isn’t the bone that doesn’t enable me to make use of the rear brake.
“After I use the rear brake it’s loopy the ache, it’s unbelievable. I did the foot on the foot deck and used simply the entrance brake and this clearly limits our efficiency, however I made it to place the bike in Flip 10.”
Espargaro mentioned the group had thought-about including a thumb brake to his RS-GP forward of Friday’s periods, however believed it may trigger extra issues and probably a crash.
He additionally mentioned that his FP2 consequence was “not that unhealthy”, which led the group to determine to maintain issues as they’re.
Requested whether or not he had taken painkillers to handle the ache, he mentioned: “I used huge painkillers, we tried to place the infiltration, however once we tried to place the infiltration on the foot, the blood was pushing the answer out and we eliminated a number of blood from the heel.
“So actually, nothing works there, so it’s extra about ice and eradicating the blood, as a result of each time I exploit it, it’ll make extra blood to guard the only.
“When there’s extra blood, after I put the boot and I transfer, I see stars – it’s loopy the ache.
“The one factor we will do is take away the blood and ice, ice, ice.”