Marc Marquez announced on Saturday that he will undergo surgery for the fourth time with the aim of solving the problem in his right arm, battered after the injury in Jerez in 2020. He hopes that this solution will be definitive so that he can return to leading a normal sporting life.
“It was a very difficult weekend, especially in terms of concentration, then on a physical level all the last weekends have been complicated. I didn’t consider reality and avoided the same question every day, it was a way of giving myself a chance. But there comes a point where you see that there is no improvement, that things do not go on and together with the doctors we have decided to undergo a new surgery “, he explained this Sunday after closing the Italian Grand Prix in tenth. position.
The Honda rider assures that this decision was made on Friday, already at the race weekend: “The operation could not have been done before because the bone was not completely consolidated. On Friday I received the doctor’s call and I was already at Mugello. If I hadn’t been here I would not have run the race, I didn’t feel obliged to continue, but having already played in FP1 I wanted to continue supporting the team and giving the comments I could think about the future. Honda also told me that if I didn’t feel like racing I could take a plane to go home ”.
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team
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In the end, Marc made the decision to play the race, with a decent performance but completing his work with extreme professionalism: “It was difficult, a lot, especially mentally. I feel a certain liberation, I didn’t see myself in these conditions for a long time, a solution having arisen that now opens a door for me to a future that I hope is better ”.
When the Catalan driver explained his decision to undergo surgery, which will leave him out of the game for many races, he assured him that the word “retirement” had crossed his mind. But not now: “I will definitely be back, to make happy the people who are supporting me, those who are suffering with me and to smile again together. The goal is to go back to driving as before, but I don’t know if I will be equally fast. But I want to get back to having fun on the bike, which hasn’t happened in the last two years. I have won races, yes, but all on left-hand tracks. I won at Misano, right handed, but on the water. It’s not the way I want to keep racing ”.
Marquez does not see this new operation as a medical constraint, but as a definitive solution: “There is no other option but to operate on me. The doctors told me, I can’t continue like this because I’m hurting in other parts of my body. At least, I want to be able to lead a normal life, leave physiotherapists and anti-inflammatories once and for all ”.
Pain was the sensation that accompanied him in the last two years: “The most important thing is that they offered me a solution, they give me peace of mind. Because it’s not that the doctors tell me to do what I want, they called me to tell me to have an operation, it’s the solution. A successful sportsman needs victories and rewards. With pain your character changes and yours pays too. In the race and when I drive I don’t think, especially when I go after another driver, I go by instinct. But you can do this for one or two laps, but not in a whole race and least of all in a season ”.
“It has been a complicated year and a half, but it has strengthened me a lot and I hope it is a point to ride the way I want. Then, if you win or not we’ll see. Surgery does not mean winning, for me to have surgery and having fun again will already be a victory ”, concluded the Cervera rider.
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