This time it's a reality and Doctor Claudio Costa, father of the mobile clinic, is not the last to rejoice about it. Marc Marquez will make his return to the Grand Prix and everything suggests that it will be for that of Portugal next weekend. A challenge because the eight-time World Champion has never toured Portimao with his RC213V, even if he put the circuit in his mind during training with an RC213V-S. Marc Marquez will therefore start with a big challenge while his opponents will have to reintroduce him into the landscape. Doctor Costa gives his feelings…
The 2021 season will experience Portugal a new start. Indeed, the two Grands Prix accomplished at Qatar took place without Marc Marquez who is now fit to return to competition. It is therefore expected to Portimao next weekend, on a route that he has never covered with a MotoGP. However, on Friday April 16 he will ride on this track, 271 days after his heavy crash at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. It was then July 19, 2020.
A situation to take into account in order not to ask the impossible from the official Honda. Which will not be simple, because Marc Marquez has accustomed us, precisely, to making the exploit our daily life. On Moto.it, the doctor Claudio costa, who had followed, with his own diagnoses, the complicated convalescence of the HRC pilot comments: “ it is a great happiness for me, I am in love with this pilot. But it is a joy for all motorcyclists who need a protagonist of this level ».
« I am happy that the doctors did a good job. In December, a situation was problematic with this bone infection. If he races in Portugal, it's very good news. Congratulations to the doctors who treated him » he said. But he is not too worried about the consequences of this long period spent away from competition: “ I imagine it even stronger, because from the wound he will find all the unexpected and unknown energies that can transcend you ».
Claudio Costa: “he will be stronger than before in a more aggressive environment”
« I imagine him to be strong, because he is psychologically strong. This injury which lasts for months, almost a year, is the hero's injury: psychologically he will have the hero's strength » insists the Italian. But what effect will this return have on opponents who have gained confidence in his absence? “ If Marc comes back like I think, I think the opponents should be worried. They will feel a little reduced and brought back to more normal limits » evaluates Claudio costa.
« They certainly had the opportunity to expand their strength, to become more aware of their possibilities. I believe Marquez will find a more aggressive environment » he admits all the same. With so many opinions, it’s time to make a prediction…” I see him on the podium. Marquez is not a man of half measures. Either he is able to run well or he goes home. But I really think he won't come home... »
He finishes : " there is also the desire to return, to be reborn, to conquer these extreme places that he was used to living. It will be like a new adventure for him : starting again after a fall is psychologically a good boost, even if this can be conditioned by the terrible injuries which have marked his body. He will be even stronger than before ».
