Rossi back for MotoGP race after leg break

Movistar Yamaha's MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi was back in the saddle at the Aragon Grand Prix just weeks after breaking his leg.

Italian rider Valentino Rossi

Italian rider Valentino Rossi has returned to MotoGP racing just weeks after breaking his leg. (AAP)

Motorcycling great Valentino Rossi has ridden eight laps in Friday's first practice session for Sunday's Aragon MotoGP.

It comes just 22 days after he broke his leg.

Rossi appeared to have few problems as he negotiated a wet track and finished 18th fastest.

World championship leader and defending champion Marc Marquez of Spain was quickest.

Nine-times world champion Rossi, 38, fractured his tibia and fibula in a motocross accident on August 31.


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