The aggressiveness of Marc Márquez took its toll on him in a weekend in which he had allowed himself the luxury of dreaming after the pole position achieved on Saturday and the power achieved in the first sprint race of the season. The driver from Cervera spoiled everything he had achieved due to his usual risky driving after starring in a brutal fall on the third lap of the Portuguese Grand Prix.
There was still the whole race to decide the first victory of the championship when the eight times world champion (six times in the highest category) touched Jorge Martín, who went long and at the same time overwhelmed the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira, thus making enemies of the public of Portimao.
The Portuguese from the Aprilia team was the most affected in the mishap, since medical assistance was forced to remove him on a stretcher. Fortunately the thing was scared and he recovers favorably. The Honda driver, aware of his fault, did not take long to apologize. After his fall, we saw how Márquez left his team’s box with his arm in a cast and could suffer a fracture in the metacarpal of the thumb of his right hand. All while waiting for the tests to which he will be subjected this Monday in Barcelona. Ángel Charte, the championship doctor, told DAZN: «Marc’s thing did not seem important, but we have seen in the X-ray that there is a possible fracture in the first metacarpal of the right hand. We have immobilized her, and now we depend on the complementary tests that we do at the hospital.
As was foreseeable, Race Direction has punished Marc Márquez with a double ‘Long Lap Penalty’ that he will have to comply with in the next race in which he participates, presumably the Argentine Grand Prix. The main idea of this punishment is that the penalized driver loses several seconds, between two and three in most circuits. So Marc Márquez starts a year in the worst possible way in which it is very difficult for him to achieve the results expected of him, given the superiority that the Ducati are showing at this beginning of the course and the bad feelings of his Honda.
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