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Somkiat Chantra requires surgery after an off-road training accident.
Somkiat Chantra will miss the next two MotoGP rounds due to a knee injury sustained while training off-road earlier this week, which resulted in damage to his right knee’s lateral collateral ligament.
Chantra, the Thai rider who recently made history by earning his first premier-class point in Assen, is scheduled for surgery at Hospital Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona next Tuesday.
As a result, Chantra will be sidelined for the German Grand Prix at Sachsenring and the Czech Grand Prix at Brno from July 18-20, with the MotoGP summer break extending until the Austrian Grand Prix in mid-August.
LCR Honda has not yet announced a replacement rider for the affected races, but HRC test riders Aleix Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami have both filled in as wild-cards and substitutes this season, including Espargaro who stepped in for Luca Marini at Assen.
