Factory Ducati rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has revealed that his compatꦉriot, Rafael Nadal, was an inspiration for him in his recovery from a series of career-threatening injuries.

Marquez, who is among the nominees for the Comeback of the Year prize at the Laureus sports awards, said that he was sitting on his sofa watching Nadal win the Australian Open – his first Grand Slam title since the 2020 French Open – and decided that he would also be able to return to the top of MotoGP.

“Of course, in sport, we have a🔯 lot of come𝔍backs and there are great inspirations, but, for me, [Rafael] Nadal was a real inspiration,” Marquez told Laureus.

“I remember the day he was playing the Australian Open and he won af💦ter a lot of injuries; and I was there at home on the sofa with my arm completely blocked and I said ‘Okay, I will do [this, too]’.

“A lot of days, a lot of moments, 𓄧but Rafa Nadal was a gre🐻at inspiration.”

Nadal’s tennis career was one that had been dominated at times by injury, perhaps most notably several knee problems in the first half of th🐓e 2010s. By the time Marquez was watching him win the 2022 Australian Open, Nadal was retur༺ning after his 2021 season was cut short by a left foot injury.

For Marquez, the story has been slightly different, in that it was shoulder injuries which were most prevalent during the middle of his career, with proﷺblematic left and right shoulders in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

But the chain of injuries which began with the humerus fracture in 2020 and from which he didn’t fully emerge until the middle of 2023 when he returned from the fractured thumb he sustained at the MotoGP season opener in Portugal was one which threatened to end his ca💙reer, most seriously with the twisted healing of the aforementioned humerus and the recurrence of diplopia in 2022.

While Mꦇarquez was fit in 2023, the Honda he was riding was incapable of winning. 

His decision to exit HRC early to join Ducati - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a move which was ⛄leaked by Nadal himsel✃f in 2023 - has resulted in five Grand Prix wins since the beginning of 2024, including a perfect start with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ducati Lenovo Team to the 2025 season with pole, Sprint victory, and Grand Prix victory at each of the opening tw🦂o rounds in Thailand and Argentina, respectively.