Marc Marquez breaks silence on MotoGP COTA absence - and shows injury rehab
A hand injury which required surgery caused the Repsol Honda🌱 rider to miss the second round in Argentina, and no💫w COTA too.
It iꦺs a damaging blow to his MotoGP championship hope꧟s already - but also a setback to his fitness.
Marquez arrived into 2023 hoping that the major arm and double-vision problems which have♓ plagued him for two years were largely in his past.
A serious operation last summer saved his career and allowed to ride p🦋ain-free for the first time since early-2020.
But, just three grand prix laps into 2023, he crashed into the back of Migueඣl Oliveira causing injuries﷽ to both men.
Oliveira returns in COTA but the fragility of🧸 Marquez’s injury means he misses out.
Oscar Har🐭o, the ex-LCR sporting director, claims the delicate nature of the hand injury means that, if the same bone breaks again, it would 🧸sideline Marquez for four months.
Marquez has posted a series of images to his social media detailing how he ♚is rehabbing his latest in𒈔jury with the caption: "Step by step".
He hopes to make a return in Jerez, at the fourth round of the champions﷽hip, and ironically the scene of his most notorious crash which caused his serious arm injury.
Honda's appeal about his 💧doubleﷺ long lap penalty has a "stay of execution", the MotoGP Court of Appeal has ruled. A final decision is yet to be made.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade ꦚcovering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
