Marc Marquez injury update | Honda boss: “Potential is there, bike evolving”
But, team manager Alberto Puig has insisted that their injured star rider should be emboldened by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins’ victory at the MotoGP 💟Grand Prix of the🙈 Americas.
Marquez has been critical of Honda’s development but, as he sat at home recovering from🦄 an injury caused by his own crash, 🌟Puig took the opportunity to remind him that there is hope.
“We must take note and be satisfied with the evolution that the bike has made in a few r♛aces,” Puig told .
“The results of this weekend will s𝐆urely have pleased🗹 him.
“We s꧂till need to improve the b𒆙ike but the potential is there.”
Marquez crashed three laps into the first grand prix of 2023, inflict🌳ing a hand injury on himself which require𒊎d surgery and ruled him out of the next two rounds.
It is already a bitter blow to his hopes of winning a seventh premier class championship this season, and he currently sits 57 points behind leader Marಌco Bezzecchi in the MotoGP standings.
He hopes to return for the👍 Spanish MotoGP at Jerez on April 30 but it is no guarantee.
“Marc continues to follow tꦛhe plan set by his doctors and iꦓs making progress,” Puig said.
“He will do another check before the Spanish GP to check t༒he situation of the hand 🐲bone.
“From that moment we will be able to fully understand 🤪how his recovery is proceeding.”
LCR Honda rider Rins won at COTA after a costly fall from Francesco Bagnaia who looked༒ certain to win.
It was a huge moment for a🐬 team who endured an awful 2022, and even failed to score a single point at a premier class race for the firs🤪t time in 40 years last year in Germany.
“The final, and crucial, message of this weekend is t🏅hat the hard work of everyone in Japan and Europe is paying off,” Puig insisted.
“Everyone in HRC is giving their best♊ to get back on top.
“Thanks to Rins, we were able to get the reward of victory and show that we are still here, that we are st🔯ill compe🅷ting.”
Joan Mir, Marquez’s Repsol Honda teammate, failꦬed to finish a race for the third time this season.
It wasܫ a stark contrast for the 2020 MotoGP champion to his ex-Suzukไi teammate Rins.
“We at HRC believe that his potential is at least equal to that of Rins, because they raced together in t🍰he same team f𒅌or many years and you saw the results,” Puig said.
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