Overview
- A double crash at the Duikersloot right-hander (Turn 11) on Friday forced MotoGP practice to be red-flagged and drew an immediate on-track medical response.
- Fermin Aldeguer suffered a violent tumble after a low-side and hit the gravel, was stretchered off and taken to hospital where Gresini confirmed a fracture to his T7 vertebra that rules him out of the Assen weekend.
- Alex Márquez walked away with help from circuit medics and was assessed by the team as having a contusion to his right shoulder and abrasions to his left arm with a negative shoulder X-ray.
- Both riders enter the weekend with recent injury histories that complicate recovery: Aldeguer is still coming back from a January femur fracture and Márquez is mid-comeback from a Catalan crash that broke his collarbone and affected his neck.
- Gresini says Aldeguer will be reassessed in the coming days and Márquez must pass further medical clearance before he can ride, leaving the team to revise preparations for the next round before the summer break.