After recovering from a shoulder injury sustained at the end of last year’s World Supersport Championship, 23-year-old Piotr Biesiekirski has returned trackside as part of his preparations for the 2025 season.
With 13 Moto2 World Championship starts to his name, last year the young Pole made his debut in the World Supersport Championship, riding a Ducati Panigale V2 with his traditional number 74.
During the penultimate round of the season, held in October in Estoril, Portugal, the 23-year-old suffered a serious injury to his left shoulder, which required a long period of rehabilitation.
“In Portugal, I sustained an injury to the humeral head at the attachment of the supraspinatus muscle,” he explains. “It’s a complex injury that severely limits shoulder mobility. While it didn’t require surgery, it did mean a fairly long recovery process.”
Four months after the injury, Biesiekirski was able to get back on a race bike for the first time, and since early April, he has been training regularly – both on track and off it.
“I was able to return to physical training quite quickly, although putting on a racing suit again was out of the question for a while,” he continues. “I returned to the track in February at the Aspar Circuit, but due to tricky weather in Spain in the following weeks, I only resumed regular riding at the beginning of April. I was surprised by how good I felt from the very first laps.”
Although the injury forced him to withdraw from the final round of the 2024 World Supersport Championship, Biesiekirski doesn’t rule out a return to top-level competition later this year.
“For the past two weeks, I’ve been training on a Honda CBR600RR – the same bike I rode to a third-place finish in the Spanish Championship back in 2018. I didn’t expect to regain the pace so quickly, but I’m happy the injury is behind me. Unfortunately, it disrupted my sporting plans for 2025, but we’ll see what the coming months will bring,” concludes the 23-year-old, who is currently also working on securing the budget for a full-time return to top level racing.
