Marc Márquez rode his last MotoGP race this Sunday before facing a major surgery on his arm that he plans to redefine his future and get out of the hole he’s been stuck in for a while
“When they called me on Friday, they gave me the results and they gave me all the information, I was breathing. I breathed, because there was a possibility that seeing the results they had left open gave me the opportunity to decide whether to have the surgery or not. But they called me and immediately said: come next week, this is too big, we don’t know what you are doing now, but you have to stop. And for me the decision was easy. Friday was one of the most beautiful days of the year. It was bad news because I have to have surgery, but actually very good news for myself.” Marc Márquez retired from competition this Sunday without a deadline to return to the circuits. This Thursday he will undergo a fourth surgery on his arm, in the United States, an operation that the pilot said would take about two hours, and then another recovery process will begin, initially in Madrid, as coordination between the doctor who will operate on him in Rochester, Minnesota, and those who treat regularly, allow it. “My first question to the doctors was: do you trust the operation? And they told me yes, that they trusted. And the second was when will I come back. And they answered me: if you have this mentality comes, stay home, don’t come.
On Sunday in Mugello, Márquez crossed the finish line in tenth position as second Honda and a better position than him on the starting grid. A gray career, although interpreted from the point of view of his physical situation, reaches another dimension. “The race has made me feel like I’m making the right decision, it’s the taste it has left me since sitting on the bike in the last laps and thinking about the finish. I felt very limited, as happened to me in Le Mans, and it just confirmed that feeling. I had no doubts about that, but just in case. When I got off the bike I thought ‘well, let’s see when we meet again’». In addition, the pilot himself acknowledged that having completed the job, having received news of the ease of his surgery for Friday, would not have competed in the last Italian Grand Prix.
A fact, that he was aware that he would have to enter an operating room again, which also prevented him from being one hundred percent mentally in what had been his last two days of competition so far. Márquez leaves a motorcycle in a crisis that has made his situation even more difficult, although to some extent, and according to his reasoning, that lack of technical competitiveness has not allowed him to camouflage his condition with results and has given him no doubts about whether you are going to sacrifice something sporty. “Driving like I do now, I could do another year, two, no more. Because I don’t enjoy it and I suffer a lot. But with this surgery, I hope my situation will change. In the past two years my life has not been easy,” he confessed. “The victory and the purpose of the surgery is to try and enjoy motorcycling again, it doesn’t mean you have to have surgery, arrive and win. That would be a totally wrong mindset. It’s undergoing surgery, going back to a normal life as an athlete, I’m not telling you mine anymore, but as a normal athlete, and enjoying your sport again so that every time you get on your bike it’s not a nightmare because you know you’re going to hurt because you know it’s going to cost you.”
A return for which he is estimated to need between three and six months. At the moment, Honda is getting test rider Stefan Bradl on his bike as they devise a strategic plan to see how they solve the problems of their prototype so that the new version of Marc Márquez coming out of this period of sick leave is accompanied by the best possible tool to achieve the Spanish rider’s goal of once again dominating the first category of the two-wheeled sport.
Source: La Verdad
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