Jorge Martín, the first rider infected since the Motorcycle World Championship started

Jorge Martín, champion of the Austrian GP, ​​celebrates the victory.LISI NIESNER / Reuters

Jorge Martín, one of the Spanish Moto2 riders with the greatest projection in the Motorcycle World Championship, tested positive for coronavirus in the last test that was carried out before traveling to Italy to compete in the San Marino Grand Prix, which is held this weekend at the Misano circuit.

A second test confirmed the positive this Thursday, when the previous conferences started and the preparatory work had already started in the pits of the Marco Simoncelli circuit.

Martín is the first World Championship rider to be infected since they returned to compete in Jerez on July 19, although his positive was made known at the same time that he communicated that of another member of the

, a mechanic from another team.

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Moto3 world champion in 2018 and one of the contenders for the title of the intermediate category this year, winner as it was in Austria and after second place in Styria, the last race contested, Martín will miss this Sunday's appointment and also the next, next weekend on the same stage.

The pilot, who is asymptomatic and in good health, is isolated at home and will have to pass the corresponding quarantine, which means that, as soon as possible, he will be able to return to competition for the Catalan Grand Prix, on September 27 in Montmeló.

That is as long as it has been negative in the subsequent PCR test.

Martín's is the first case of covid19 among the riders of the Motorcycle World Championship since the competition was resumed in mid-July at the Jerez circuit.

With five of the 14 appointments on an atypical calendar already disputed, only one positive was known to date within the bubble in which Dorna has converted the

MotoGP

, closed to the public, sponsors and guests.

That first infected person, staff from the television department of the company organizing the championship, was immediately isolated in the hotel in Brno where he was staying, in the Czech Republic.

He returned home more than 20 days later.

The rider from San Sebastián de los Reyes, who will ride a Ducati Pramac in MotoGP next year, was one of the contenders for the Moto2 title.

Third place overall, eight points behind the leader, Luca Marini, and tied with second, Enea Bastianini, he will have to recover from a setback he did not have.