Johann Zarco will undergo surgery for a broken wrist on Wednesday after a fracture was found as a consequence of his Austrian grand prix shunt. The Frenchman was caught up in a terrifying smash during Sunday’s Austrian GP along with Franco Morbidelli, the pair going down at roughly 300kmh on approach to Turn 3 after Zarco moved across the Petronas SRT Yamaha into the braking zone. The resulting contact caused both to go down and slide across the infield, the duo’s bikes narrowly missing both factory Yamaha’s of Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi as they tackled the slow Turn 3 right-hander as they took air across the circuit. It was found on Monday that Zarco had in fact fractured...
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