Marc Marquez confesses in a long interview: the operations on his arm, the clash with Valentino Rossi and his goals for 2023.
Marc Marquez has experienced an authentic odyssey in the last three years. In July 2020 he suffered a bad accident in Jerez, it was the first race of a “sui generis” season marked by the Covid pandemic. Operated by Dr Xavier Mir at the Dexeus university hospital in Barcelona, he made the mistake of wanting to get back on track immediately after a few days, to defend the MotoGP title.
But the titanium plate broke after a few days due to the excessive stress of trying to open a sliding door in his house, about two weeks later he has to have another operation. Forced to miss the entire 2020 season, the conditions of the humerus do not improve and in December he enters the operating room for the third time. In 2021 he misses the first two races, manages to hit three victories, but his arm and shoulder are still giving problems. Hence the decision of operate in the USA on June 2, 2022, it was the last remaining attempt and this time the ordeal seems over. In 2023 he will try to get back in the running for the World Championship, hoping to have a Honda available that is up to the task.
Marc Marquez and the most difficult challenge
In front of him has the test in Malaysia from 10 to 12 February, but the focus is already on the inaugural Portuguese Grand Prix in March. “I will know what 100% of this arm is, which obviously won’t be 100% of a completely healthy arm, but we need to get to the point where it is a perfect arm to ride a motorcycle, I think I will get there, because I notice that it is going very well better“, he told GQ.
In the long interview Marc Marquez speaks for the umpteenth time of what happened in 2015 with Valentino Rossi, on the Sepang circuit, where according to many he would have hindered his Italian rival. “People often ask me what I would change about 2015, and I think what would change is the way Valentino handled the end of the year. When you’re not the fastest on the track, you try to shuffle the cards to see what happens“.
But the past is the past, it is useless to look back again. The next big challenge is to return to being world champion and finally seal his ninth world seal, which would put him on a par with former rival Valentino Rossi. This time he doesn’t start as a great favourite, with one Ducati so it will be hard for anyone and a feat is needed: “I think it’s the first time in many years that we haven’t started as favourites, either because of my situation or because of Honda’s situation which isn’t going through its best moment“, concluded the Cervera phenomenon. “You have to be realistic, at least in the first few races, because if you don’t you will get frustration after frustration“.
