MotoGP | Marquez: “I cried, now I’m coming back” | FormulaPassion.it

A few more weeks and then finally the track will be able to give its first response. The 2022 MotoGP season will kick off on March 6 in the now usual setting of Losail, Qatar, and there are many themes at the center of attention. There is the Quartararo-Bagnaia duel, a legacy from last season, and the curiosity to see the performance on a friendly track of the imposing Ducati ‘patrol’, with eight bikes at the start. However, many eyes will be on the # 93 bike, that of Marc Marquez. For the first time in two years now, the Honda home champion has been able to experience an almost normal pre-season, at least in terms of tests.

The infinite ordeal of the Iberian champion, first with the fracture of the humerus of the right arm and the three operations, then with the diplopia, have seriously made all two-wheel enthusiasts fear that they will lose a phenomenon of his caliber forever from the races. . But now, slowly, the light really seems to be showing at the end of the tunnel. Marquez has made it clear that he is not yet at 100% in condition, but also that he does not want to make excuses and that he wants to put the maximum goal in the sights for this championship: the conquest of the world title. “It can be said that Marc is returning – he declared himself, interviewed by the Spanish site AS – I will really be back when my level on the track will be the same again. Until 2019 I was in heaven, I was at the peak of a sports career. Now I had to experience the other side of the coin, namely injuries “.

More than anything else, it was there that made the native of Cervera tremble diplopia: “Double seeing is much worse than a bone injury. With an arm injury you have a plan: you see that it is improving, that there is progress. They always tell you that, in time, it will heal. But with the double vision I knew what was coming, because I went through it in 2011 ″. Marquez reiterated that he seriously risked having to leave the sport of which he has become a legend. Doctor Bernat Sánchez, who followed him, had made it clear in no uncertain terms that if there was no healing within three months, an operation would be necessary and, perhaps, the withdrawal from competitive activity.

“When you see double and can’t lead a normal life, sporting issues are overshadowed – recognized the eight-time world champion – when the doctor tells you these things, at some point you cry alone in a room, because you know what is coming and what can happen. The doctor himself says that it’s a miracle that after two and a half or three months my sight has healed and I have not had any side effects “.