Jorge Lorenzo has confirmed via his Twitter and Facebook pages that he’s been given the green light by his doctor to take part in this week’s final pre-season MotoGP test in Qatar.

The Spaniard has been doubtful that he would be able to test in Qatar after fracturing his first metacarpal and dislocating his thumb in a training incident last February.

Jorge Lorenzo:

“Today we are leaving for Qatar for the last Winter test. I think that it is important that we are there. The fracture happened less than five weeks ago, but we could not have missed this last test because it would have been negative for our preparation; we are not far from the first race of the season! The doctor has made a special carbon fibre protection and Dainese have modified my glove, in order to further protect the fracture, so we will see how we get on.”

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The official 2010 Fiat Yamaha Team launch will take place at the Sepang circuit on February 4th at 10 in the morning (local time) before the official MotoGP tests that kick off on the same day.

It will be an old style presentation directly from the track, completely different compared to last year’s very successful on-line presentation with double interviews that were done at Yamaha headquarters at Gerno di Lesmo.

There’ll be the usual photos of the M1 with it’s 2010 livery, a press conference with the first impressions of the new bike by Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo and interviews with team managers Davide Brivio and Wico Zeelenberg, who replaced Daniele Romagnoli and Yamaha’s head honcho Lin Jarvis.

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