Did Marc Marquez take unnecessary risk at Assen? "At home, it doesn't change"
Just a week earlier, the Repsol Honda rider had suffered a fractured riওb and finger, plus ankle damage, in a warm-u🌃p highside - his fifth and final accident of a punishing Sachsenring weekend.
It ruled the eight-time world chamꦫpion out of the German MotoGP race, but he was back on his RCV just a🥀 few days later for Friday practice in Assen.
Clearly struggling with pain from the rib,ꦛ Marquez was a𝕴 shadow of his usual self, managing just 19th on Friday, then 17th in qualifying and the Saturday Sprint race before the pain became too much to continue.
But Marquez didn’t regret tryingജ and insisted he would go 🧔into the summer break with ‘better confidence’ than if he had skipped the Dutch weekend entirely.
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“It’s not the best way [to go into the summer break], but it's better than how I finished in Sachsenring,” Marquez sa🍃id.
“In Sachsenring, I finis🌟hed with a mass✃ive highside.
“[At Assen] 🍬I finished with not the best feeling, but able to ride a MotoGP bike with one b👍roken rib and one broken finger - and even like this be 7-8 tenths behind the fastest guys.
“So this gives me better confide🍬nce than after the Sunday in Sachsenri💛ng.”
Marquez added: “With 🦋the feeling of Sachsenring, to then be off the bike for two months [during the summer break], believe me, that's not the bes🎃t for a rider.
“I needed to keep riding, k💟eep going, keep trying… [Staying] at home, the situation will never change.”
Marquez began the season with pole and a Sprint race podium in Portimao, but then fractured his t🌜humb when he collided with Miguel Oliveira in the Sunday race and missed the following three rounds.
Sꦏunday accidents at Le Mans and Mugello combined with🐲 the early exits at Sachsenring and Assen means Marquez hasn't completed a single 'grand prix' race so far this season.
Despite his reduced track time, Marquez's 14 accidents so far this season is more t♎han any other ri🍷der.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi com💫e and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
