Marc Marquez lost big in a Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez which kept all its promises. The eight-time World Champion initially avoided a first fall at high speed with the dexterity that we know him to have. Thrown back to the back of the peloton, he embarked on a formidable and almost embarrassing comeback for his direct opponents. Fighting for second place against Maverick Viñales, he slipped too far which catapulted him out of his Honda before falling very heavily to the ground. This time, it was indeed for the score and the bill is steep…
Marc Marquez was the only one with fabio quartararo to turn in the 1'38 zone after the halfway point. But while the Frenchman was able to begin to manage a perfectly controlled race, the Spaniard had to continue to work hard to recover from a first mistake at turn 4 which placed him sixteenth. It was always better than a retirement, but it still ended up happening while the Honda official had taken third place, after a crazy comeback.
Wanting to attack the place of dolphin of Casa Particular in Viñales, he lost control of his Honda at turn 3. The antics was spectacular. Ejected from his machine, he fell heavily on the asphalt before sliding towards the gravel trap. There, he received a blow from the rear wheel of his RC213V and he took off in a whirlwind of free figures before, finally, stopping. Very quickly, we understood that he had been injured. And the impression was not accidental…
The championship already in danger
Marc Marquez made clear gestures of pain and had to be transferred to the medical center, where the first tests confirmed that he had a fracture of the humerus of his right arm, in addition to chest trauma on the right side and a possible involvement of certain nerves, something for which we will have to wait for more tests to have confirmation. He is expected to be transferred to Barcelona to undergo an operation.
If all this is confirmed, this injury would jeopardize his participation in next week's Andalusian Grand Prix still at Jerez. This would complicate his fight for a new world championship in a very short schedule in which, according to Marc Márquez himself, the important thing is not to get hurt... We will remember thatAlex Rins was forfeited, just like Cal Crutchlow, the two pilots also having to suffer the horrors of the fall…
MotoGP Jerez 1 Race: classification
