Gresini 'slowly improving' after spending 60th birthday in hospital
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Get MotoGP news in your inbox! By signing up to the newsletter you agree to receive emails from that may occasionally include promotional content Leave this field blank MotoGP team owner and 125cc world champion Fausto Gresini spent his 60th birthday in the intensive care unit of the Maggiore Carlo Alberto Pizzardi Bologna hospital on Saturday, where he has been battling serious respiratory problems caused by Covid-19 for almost a month.Fortunately, the latest medical update on the Italian’s condition describes ‘minor but comforting news’, with Doctor Nicola Cilloni speaking of a ‘fragile’ but ‘slowly improving’ condition.Encouragingly, Gresini’s blood oxygenation levels, which currently require constant mechanical ventilation, are also ‘progressively improving’.Overall, the prognosis is ‘still reserved’ but ‘more optimistic’.“Fausto Gresini’s general clinical conditions are fragile, but slowly and progressively improving. He is conscious and combative. Radiological and laboratory tests also go in the same direction,” Doctor Cilloni said.”He still needs to be supported by the mechanical ventilator, but blood oxygenation is progressively improving. He started physiotherapy to rehabilitate both breathing and muscles.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Flashback: Rossi, Biaggi grid controversy as Gibernau wins first Qatar MotoGPaccImages.createImage(); MV Agusta adds third bike for Marcon, plans full 2022 season”He remains in critical and fragile condition with a long path of treatment, but the direction taken in recent days makes the prognosis, still reserved, more optimistic!”The latest Facebook update from Fausto’s son Lorenzo reads: “Another quiet day for Dad, still intubated with tracheotomy and helped breathing with the [Ventilator], but no fever and a small improvement in blood oxygenation.” Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Rossi: ‘Good bike, team’ means Marini, Bastianini ‘can be competitive in 2021’accImages.createImage(); MotoGP Gossip: 2021 Honda RCV appears at Jerez test Provisional 2021 MotoGP Calendar – January UpdateRoundDateRaceCircuit128 MarchQatar (Evening race)Losail24 AprilDoha (Evening race)Losail318 AprilPortugalPortimao42 MaySpainJerez516 MayFranceLe Mans630 MayItalyMugello76 JuneCatalunyaBarcelona820 JuneGermanySachsenring927 JuneNetherlandsAssen1011 JulyFinland (Subject to homologation)KymiRing1115 AugustAustriaRed Bull Ring1229 AugustGreat BritainSilverstone1312 SeptemberAragonAragon1419 SeptemberSan Marino e Della Riviera di RiminiMisano153 OctoberJapanMotegi1610 OctoberThailandBuriram1724 OctoberAustraliaPhillip Island1831 OctoberMalaysiaSepang1914 NovemberComunitat ValencianaRicardo TormoPostponed Grands Prix: 11 AprilArgentinaTermas 18 AprilAmericasCOTAReserve Grand Prix Venues: Indonesia (Subject to homologation)Mandalika RussiaIgora Drive2021 Pre-season Testing: 5 MarchQatar Shakedown TestLosail 6-7 MarchQatar Official TestLosail 10-12 MarchQatar Official TestLosail”4
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