When the announcement of Marc Marquez's second humerus operation came, it was already close to 22 p.m. A schedule which challenged, but as the doctors then assured that the titanium plate installed had given way following too great a stress imposed by the events produced since its insertion, the accepted idea was that between the attempt to return to Jerez and intensive training, the driver had been too greedy. But that was before Alberto Puig intervened to add his two cents…
Alberto puig breaks his silence since the latest events which impacted his pilot Marc Marquez. Facts which led him to return to the operating table to place a new plate on his broken humerus. With, as a result, a lump sum for this weekend at Brno, and, undoubtedly for the two other Grands Prix to come in Austria.
Did we mismanage this crisis at Honda, with, first of all, a Alberto puig leaving the breeze on the neck of his champion? The Spaniard was surprisingly silent. But here he is back in the light...
First, he makes this revelation: if Marc Marquez had to rush into surgery, thus explaining the late news this Monday, it was because of a bad move made when opening a window in his house. This is where the titanium plate that was attached to him during his first operation gave way. This is the explanation given by the director of the Repsol Honda team to Brno.
« A bad domestic gesture at home caused this new operation on the right humerus. He was opening a very large window they have in their home and at that moment he noticed a sharp pain, which later confirmed that the plate had broken. Stress from all the previous days probably came together and was the cause. These things can happen ».
A fact which also allows Alberto puig to set the record straight, and to confront the criticism about this desire to return from Jerez 2: “ Marc went to Jerez with medical consent, passed all the physical tests and saw that he could not give up. The doctors did not expect at any time that the plaque would break and so they allowed us. Otherwise, Marc would never have gone down to Jerez. The positive thing is that it happened at home and not on the motorcycle circuit, where the consequences could have been very different ».
For Alberto Puig, those who talk about the past are cowards
The boss of the Repsol Honda team considers that he is “ loose » to talk about past events, and he does not regret the decision he made to give it a try in Jerez. “ When you are a champion, you must try, as long as you are within the law. Marc passed the physical tests and agreed how far this would go. It's easy to talk afterwards. What had to be done was done and what had to happen happened ».
« What is obvious is that the pilot did not expect the plate to break. Even the doctors were surprised by this. For me, talking about the past is being a coward and looking for excuses. Everything was done in the best possible way and it didn't go well. But that's no reason to start messing things up. The one who has the most to lose is the pilot, but Marc is strong and he will recover ".
Alberto puig did not want to give recovery periods, nor confirm or deny that he can race in Austria. “ We don't give any deadline and we don't want to talk about it because the important thing is that he enters this recovery period and only time will tell us when he can return. Now Marc has a recovery process, to see how the fracture heals and stabilizes. Only the passage of time will tell us what its state is and how it faces the future ».
Regarding the options of Marc Márquez for the title, Alberto puig does not rule it out, despite the difficulty of this undertaking. “ Life takes many turns. Logically, from a mathematical point of view, it is much more difficult. But the goal now is not that, it’s for him to recover. The championship becomes more interesting because there were people who didn't have options and now have them ". They will appreciate…
