07 June,2010 07:15 AM IST | | PA Sport
Valentino Rossi is in good spirits and joking following an operation on a broken leg although he admitted he was terrified immediately following his horrific fall on Saturday.
The Fiat Yamaha rider suffered a compound fracture of his right shin bone when he crashed in practice for Sunday's Italian MotoGP at Mugello and spent two and a half hours in surgery.
Dani Pedrosa of Honda won the Italian MotoGP, seeing off fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo on a Yamaha and Italy's Andrea Dovizioso, also of Honda even as Rossi's bid to retain his world title has been ended by the injury that could see him sidelined for four to five months. But the 31-year-old is upbeat. "I'm pretty good," he said in Mediaset. "I thank all those at Mugello, I saw the banners. Don't worry, I'll come back soon. I was afraid, now it's a lot better. It was a bad fall, a bad injury, but it's going well because I've found that I have a great relationship with morphine!"
