Marc Márquez has a horrible accident and is out of the Indonesian Grand Prix

BarcelonaMandalika was sworn in by Marc Márquez. The Honda have failed to find the feeling on the asphalt probably by some tires that have not blended well with the bike and by a pavement that, despite the reconditioning, has not been in good condition all weekend. Cervera slipped on the gravel more than he would have liked in all the sessions. In the classification he had a double fall which, despite not being dangerous, robbed him of the opportunity to have a good time and move on to Q2. With a fifteenth starting position, Márquez wanted to accelerate in the warm-up and that’s when the tires have said enough and the asphalt has blown it through the air.

It all happened in a thousandth of a second. Márquez opened and closed his eyes with difficulty and standing up was a titanic endeavor. Still stunned by the strong impact, Marc Márquez was approaching his Honda, which was practically destroyed. It seemed that everything that was happening was a vision, the Catalan did not seem aware that he had just suffered one high side, one of the most horrific accidents in years at Moto GP. In the spectacular fall, the Catalan rider was shot above the motorcycle. The rear wheel of the Honda skidded completely on the asphalt and Márquez flew like a spring due to inertia. He has not been able to control the trajectory of his body, which has been left entirely to chance. Cervera’s head hit his head on the tarmac and he began rolling on the gravel as his mechanics covered his face with his hands.

Márquez was able to walk off the track, but went straight to the circuit hospital. “Marc is fine,” said Dr. Charte, the league’s chief medical officer. “He has had several radiological tests, which have been negative. According to the pilot and the team, and the fact that this type of pathology requires an observation period of between 12 and 24 hours, the medical staff MotoGP has decided to declare it unfit, “he added. The diagnosis is delicate, but not worrisome: craniocerebral trauma with unstable consciousness.

The flood stops everything

Without Márquez on the starting grid, the Indonesian GP was preparing to start. The pilots looked at the sky. At the Mandalika circuit the sky was completely overcast and threatening to explode in torrential rain. In just a few minutes, the sound of the engines was maintained to make way for a curtain of water that flooded the entire track and stopped the Grand Prix. From the pits, the teams analyzed the radars and the pilots took off their monkeys. The wait was beginning. The Indonesian Grand Prix was stopped for an hour and a quarter until, at 9.15 am Catalan time, the rain stopped and the circuit became minimally practicable. With puddles all over the track, the bikes have been placed at the starting line. The race, just 20 laps away due to poor asphalt conditions, was about to start. After the long journey to be under the traffic lights, the Grand Prix really kicked off.

Fabio Quartararo, who left the pole, has come out like a missile. The Frenchman has gained some space, but with rain nothing can be considered valid. In the first laps, the positions of the whole grid danced to the sound of the drivers’ instinct. Without good visibility, everyone has tried to get out of the predicament of their predecessors so as not to be disqualified by the water that the motorcycles have raised. Miguel Oliveira (KTM) enjoyed himself as a little boy while many of his rivals suffered like never before. The Portuguese took the lead in the first lap and maintained a devilish pace impossible for his pursuers to follow. The Ducatis of Jack Miller and Johann Zarco have been chasing the KTM incessantly until Quartararo, who has been missing for ten rounds of the fight, has returned to war. With the victory awarded by Oliveira, the Frenchman overcame the two Ducatis and climbed to second place on the podium just ahead of Zarco.