On the sidelines of the Doha Grand Prix, which is the second MotoGP meeting in Qatar, Carmelo Ezpeleta returned to the Marc Marquez case, his injury, his medical discharge, and his return. A way of taking note and firmly signaling one's point of view regarding the doubts about the medical protocol and the battle between doctors which marked the convalescence of the eight-time World Champion. He ends with his future return, subjecting him to a particular imperative which can delay the deadline...
Carmelo Ezpeleta gave an interview to GP One during which he focused on the package of Marc Marquez which lasted all of last season and which continues into the current one. The boss of the promoter Dorna obviously had a weight that he needed to relieve, and it weighed on the medical profession which was put in the hot seat after a premature return and three operations of the official Honda, with a fractured humerus after a fall during the first race of 2020 in Jerez.
The Spaniard begins with the medical clearance given, four days after the pilot's operation, to do the second Grand Prix in Jerez : " there was no error » he asserts: “ there is a medical protocol, modified after what happened in 2017 in Assen: if you come from total anesthesia, you cannot run for a certain time. What could we change? If a driver does the push-ups that Marquez did, how can we tell him he can't race? He took a medical test, he passed it and was allowed to run: it couldn't have been any other way ».
Carmelo Ezpeleta: “some doctors gave their opinion without knowing things”
Ezpeleta then talks about the controversies, over, but also between doctors, which marked the convalescence of Marc Marquez : " you have to have respect for what a pilot decides to do with his body. I don't know what Marquez and his doctors said to each other, but it was not good that other doctors got involved in this discussion ».
According to Ezpeleta « there was a lack of respect on the part of the population, in particular on the part of certain doctors who gave their opinion without knowing things in depth ". We will remember that the Doctor Costa, father of the mobile clinic, had often spoken about the way in which the patient Marc Marquez had been treated. The boss of Dorna ends his remarks with certainty: “ I'm sure he won't come back if he can't win ". A phrase that can push back deadlines like putting pressure on the pilot Honda as soon as he comes back.
