Marc Marquez will therefore be withdrawn from this second Grand Prix at Portimao due to a concussion suffered after a fall during training while riding a motocross bike. An official announcement made by Honda on Tuesday. A few lines that don't convince everyone. They even worry and a controversy begins to swell behind the scenes of MotoGP. Marco Melandri and Carlo Pernat are putting their foot down!
Marc Marquez package due to a concussion dating from Saturday is a situation that is debated, as the press release from Honda dating from Tuesday. There is the content and the form which raise questions for some, including Marco Melandri et Charles Pernat are the spokespersons.
As for the form, it is Charles Pernat who sounds the charge: “ The more I read Honda's press release on the absence of Marc Marquez at Portimao, the more I don't understand why they persist in such smokey communications which are so open to interpretations and deductions. » he said on Mowmag. " It's so absurd to say so little that I'm starting to convince myself that the blow to the head had nothing to do with it. ».
Officially, however, Honda stated that the problem was only a mild concussion and that Marc Marquez and his doctors had preferred the path of caution. But Feathered persists: “ all this, however, without half a photo, without detailed explanation. Say so little, it's wanting to hide something. And I wouldn't want Marc Marquez to have hurt his arm more than his head in the fall in training ».
“The absence of Marc Marquez at Portimao makes me think that maybe there is something behind it”
And then there is the substance: this forfeit declared so quickly about an injury that occurred days before: “ a driver always wants to try and, therefore, after the first check, the second usually takes place close to the race, at the last minute. That it was already decided on Tuesday not to let him run is objectively strange » signals Feathered. On this point, he is joined by Marco Melandri, former Grand Prix driver, let us remember: “ a driver always tries and Marc Marquez is certainly not one to give up. In our heads we always wait until the last second to decide. It is very strange that this choice was even communicated on Tuesday. For me, Marc Marquez won't even race in Valencia and that makes me think that the problem may be another ».
« Pilots don't give up, they don't give up, or at least they try. And Marc Marquez is not just a driver, he is a great champion who has already shown that he always wants to try " finished Melandri. “ This is why his absence in Portimao makes me think that maybe there is something behind it ". The Italian even wrote it in a story on Instagram: “ They don't tell us everything about Marquez "...
