Marc Márquez (Cervera, Lleida; 29 years old) went flying during the morning warm-up session of the Indonesian GP and had to be evacuated to the hospital. It was Sunday morning and the Honda rider was looking for a way to recover sensations with his bike, the one that has changed so much this winter and with which it is difficult for him to understand each other. He would have to start the race from 14th on the grid after a bad weekend, so it was up to him to fill in what the machine lacked of his own.
But the machine was able to with the pilot, who was abruptly ejected by his motorcycle in the middle of a curve: at the moment of opening the throttle, the rear tire lost its grip, made a sudden movement and caused a violent shake of the Honda, which threw Márquez in the air. The impact against the asphalt was brutal.
Despite the terrible fall, Márquez got up from the ground by his own feet. He could walk, but he looked very dazed. He was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with “multiple trauma and head trauma with unstable consciousness” that would prevent him from taking the start of the second grand prix of the season.
“Márquez has suffered a high-energy trauma,” explained Dr. Ángel Charte to the DAZN microphones. “After the different tests carried out in the hospital, in agreement with the driver and the team, we have decided to consider him unfit for the race,” he added. Charte explained that a trauma of these characteristics requires that the patient remain under observation between 12 and 24 hours. Hence the decision not to compete.
In 1993 he had to watch on television how a magnificent Miguel Oliveira won under the incessant rain. Fabio Quartararo and Johann Zarco accompanied the Portuguese on the podium after a race that had to be delayed by more than an hour due to weather conditions.
Pilot the Honda differently
Sunday morning was Marquez’s fourth crash in three days in Indonesia. On Friday, he lost control of his bike in the second practice session. And the same thing happened to him again during the qualifying session on Saturday, when he had two almost identical accidents that prevented him from fighting for the pole position and took him away from the top of the standings on Saturday.
Those three falls, however, were different, as well as lighter. On those first three occasions, he lost control of the front end when he was seeking the limits of his bike; in the crash this Sunday it was the rear axle that gave way. And the brutality of the accident was much greater. Also its consequences.
The whys, however, converge in the same explanation. The one from Cervera does not feel comfortable with his new Honda. Developed to become a more democratic and manageable bike, the weight transfer has moved from the front to the rear, forcing the Catalan to ride it differently than he did since his MotoGP debut.
Márquez began the season happy for feeling, finally, recovered from the physical problems that have weighed him down for the last two years since he suffered a fracture of the humerus of his right arm in July 2020. A fall with a head injury while practicing motocross caused him to October last year a diplopia, a double vision problem. It took him three months to recover from that inflammation of the optic nerve. And the same to get in shape and not feel pain when he began to accumulate hours of motorcycle training at the end of January. Just when he was beginning to feel good physically, he fell again. And to get hurt.
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