This is called the law of series! Marc Marquez had already fallen on Saturday during qualifying for the Indonesian Grand Prix, and the Spaniard fell again this Sunday during the warm up. He withdrew Sunday for the Indonesian Grand Prix, after a concussion caused by a violent fall in the warm-up, a few hours before the race, announced his Honda team. “Marc Marquez has been declared unfit after examinations at the local hospital, by the staff and the doctors of the circuit”, wrote Honda, the team of the six-time MotoGP world champion, on Twitter, before the start of the race postponed to 4:10 p.m. local time (9:15 a.m. French) due to rain.
Marquez, 29, suffered a violent glide at turn 7 of the Mandalika circuit, after losing control of the rear of his motorcycle in a “highside” at the end of the “warm-up” of the Grand Prix of Indonesia, second round of the MotoGP season. The Spaniard got up on his own, but he was very dizzy after this fall at around 180 km/h. He was evacuated by helicopter to a hospital on the island of Lombok, where the circuit is located, for further examinations, in accordance with protocol.
Fabio Quartararo on pole
“As you saw it was a big crash, a major concussion, so with this kind of accident you need time to recover,” Alberto Puig, Honda’s sporting director, then told television microphones. considering that “it would not have been a very safe idea to make him run”. “We will see the evolution in the next 24 hours”, he continued, explaining that the pilot had nothing broken but that it was necessary to be very “cautious when you have a shock to the head”.
Six-time champion in the premier class between 2013 and 2019, Marquez broke his right arm during the first Grand Prix of 2020, which deprived him of the entire season. He had gradually returned but at the end of 2021, a new fall in training, in motocross, had deprived him of the last two races of the year, due to a diplopia problem (doubling of vision).
The French world champion Fabio Quartararo signed his first pole position of the season on Saturday and will start ahead of the Spaniard Jorge Martin and the other tricolor Johann Zarco.