Marc Marquez is preparing for a second part of the season which he knows is essential for the rest of his career. It is she, in fact, who will determine in what state of true form his terrible accident at Jerez in 2020 and the events and consequences that followed will have left him. His return to Portimao and until the half-time whistle in the Netherlands was to be taken as a restart... All the same marked by a heroic victory on the Sachsenring. But in August, on the Red Bull Ring, another period will begin…
Marc Marquez made his return to competition MotoGP nine months after a major accident during the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez and, at the Sachsenring, he took his first victory, more than 580 days after the last recorded achievement. However, the official Honda hasn't left the inn yet. His physical form is in fact still unstable while the volume he gained at Assen due to a electronic malfunction of his RC213V was not the type to reassure him.
It is now the summer break, a period during which the eight-time World Champion will have to stock up on energy, both physically and mentally... " I want to disconnect from everything and do nothing, even my body needs it », recalled on DAZN the teammate of a Pol Espargaro who leads the crash rankings with 13 accidents after nine races. He has nine although he missed the first two events, and his brother Alex regrets 10. This shows how difficult it is to drive a Honda at the moment…
Marc Marquez has a major fear
Marc Marquez adds: " I don't want to worry about the shoulder, the arm, everything. The goal is to get back to training my way: motorcycles, motorcycles and more motorcycles. This is what the second part of the championship is asking of me. I'm not even saying that I can win, but be more consistent and not having relapses, which would be the worst scenario ».
The pain in the shoulder and right humerus still causes some discomfort, a year after this terrible accident in Jerez. What will it be like at the start of August at the Red Bull Ring which will host two Grands Prix consecutively? “ For the moment it's the unknown » he admits and to make his situation clear, he recalls the episode before the Dutch Grand Prix: “ On Wednesday, without doing anything in particular, I called Alberto Puig and told him that I didn't know if I could drive that weekend. I had a lot of irritation, on Thursday the physiotherapist treated me and on Friday I was tired. But over the weekend it got better. It hasn't gotten worse. It's a bit strange what's happening to me ».
Marc Marquez counts 100 points behind the leader Quarterly in the championship. In fact, the Spaniard's objective will be to obtain important results but, above all, to prepare the Honda RC213V for the 2022 season so that it resumes its march forward. He will have 29 years and winning titles while the next generation is already showing up will be less and less easy...
