2023-08-01 17:11:54
Marc Márquez has finally been able to enjoy a normal summer. The Cervera pilot needed to recharge his batteries after a really tough first half of the season for the catalanwho has not been able to escape injuries and displeasure at the handlebars of his Honda, a situation that has called into question his immediate future as an HRC rider.
In Portugal, at the opening event of the 2023 academic year, the catalan fractured a bone in the thumb of his right hand that left him out of the game in Argentina, Austin and Jerez, returning at Le Mans in what was a discreet weekend for the eight-time world champion, who could only scratch five points on French soil.
Then came Mugello, a round in which Marc already made a face because of how badly his motorcycle continued to work and due to the worrying lack of news and development by Honda, which seemed to be testing the patience of its reference driver. Three points is all that Márquez could catch on the Tuscany track before the catastrophe in Germany.
At the Sachsenring, one of Marc Márquez’s fetish circuits along with Austin’s, the 30-year-old pilot went to the ground up to five timesone of them in the morning warm-up that sent him straight to the Medical Center, leaving him out of action for the main race on Sunday.
A week later it was Assen’s turn, a round that Marc had to face with a sprained ankle, a broken finger and, in addition, a fractured rib that prevented him from moving naturally on his motorcycle. The one in the Netherlands was going to be a tough grand prix for Marc, the victim of two new falls over the weekend that finally they also sidelined him from Sunday’s featured race. In fact, it was Márquez himself who asked his team not to participate in the race because he was not feeling well either physically or mentally.
Marc has taken advantage of the summer break to rest, train and start preparing the rest of hisThe second part of the season that will start at Silverstone from Friday. The Repsol Honda team rider disembarks on a track where he has been on the podium six times, three of them in MotoGP and one crowning the top of the honor drawer.
“We have enjoyed an important summer vacation, an opportunity to reset and recover after a demanding start to the year. From a physical and mental point of view I return to the track refreshed and ready to work“says the Spaniard.
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“I am looking forward to seeing the entire Repsol Honda team and understand the work that has been done during the break. Silverstone is a circuit where I have had good races in the past. The most important thing is to get back on the bike, work again and try to improve what has been the first half of the year”, Finish off a Márquez who leads the ranking of falls in MotoGP with 14 accidents in the first eight rounds of the year.
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