Marc Márquez arrived at the Indonesian GP with a single objective for the rest of the season: maintain high concentration and avoid making mistakes that could end in injuries. The brand new world champion could not fulfill his mission, which ended his participation in Mandalika after time after suffering a strong accident and once again damaged his bruise right arm on Sunday. This Monday, after having advanced his return to Madrid and spend a medical review with his trusted team at the Ruber International Hospital, Ducati confirmed that the 93 suffers a fracture in the base of the coracoid process of the right shoulder, a bone salient located in the upper and previous portion of the scapula, and that he also suffers a ligament lesion in the same joint.
Doctors Samuel Antuña and Ignacio Roger de Oña, who head Márquez’s care since their transfer to Madrid in 2022, have opted for a conservative treatment that implies the complete immobilization of the shoulder until the natural consolidation of the fracture, with very little bone displacement. The new injury has not affected the humerus or the titanium plate that endures it in place.
The current recovery plan expects the nine -time world champion to skip the next two World Cup quotes in Australia and Malaysia, postponing a hypothetical return to the competition until November. “Luckily, the injury is not serious, but it is important to respect the recovery times. My goal is to return before the end of the course, but without hurrying things without the approval of the doctors and their recommendations,” said the pilot in the official statement of the team. “Both my personal goals and the team groups have been achieved and the number one priority is now to recover properly and return to 100%,” he added.
Márquez, despite opting for not throwing more from the account in one of the few paths that are resisting and where he has not even finished a Grand Prize in four participations, he was rammed by Marco Bezzecchi, one of the favorites to triumph with Aprilia, in one of the fastest circuit curves in the first round of the Grand Prix. The 93 ended up hitting the gravel strongly and lying more than half a minute before rising by his own foot and leaving the danger zone.
The poor state of the escape in that area, with stones too large and apparently high with respect to the height of the asphalt, was very criticized by several pilots after the race. One of them was his brother Álex, outraged with the low security of the layout. “The same thing always happens. Until nothing happens, you don’t act,” he lamented in the foreskin in conversation with the winner Fermín Aldeguer and the second classified Pedro Acosta. “We want to give show, but we have to be more protected,” asked the two -time champion in the intermediate categories.
The Major of the Márquez was initially transferred to the medical center of the circuit located on the island of Lombok, immediately east of the Bali tourist, where the first observations pointed to damage to the shoulder and clavicle of the same right arm that sank him in misery in recent years. The lack of adequate equipment made it impossible to determine the scope of the pilot’s injury, which declared to suffer a possible rupture of ligaments in the clavicle. The main medical person in charge of the category, Dr. Ángel Charte, pointed to a possible small fracture in the injured shoulder.
As a consequence of the tube and its consequences, the 32 -year -old Pilot, has canceled all his media commitments in his return home as world champion. Márquez completed the return trip to Spain with his arm in Cabestrillo.
In addition to the four operations in the fractured humerus in the GP of Spain of 2020, Márquez had to be intervened in the compartment syndrome in the same limb in 2023. That same year the metacarpal was broken by the right hand and also required surgical intervention. Rumbo to its impressive reconquest of the scepter in MotoGP this course, where it has knead 11 victories and 15 podiums in 18 disputed appointments, the Catalan accumulated a total of 108 falls, 30 absences in large awards and seven visits to the operating room between its eighth crown in 2019 and the novena, certified two Sundays in the Japan GP.
Jorge Martín, who fractured the clavicle in the same Motegi event, was also successfully intervened at the beginning of last week and now progresses properly in his recovery. The 2024 champion, after four interventions in a black year of debut with April, has moved this week to the high performance center that Red Bull has in Salzburg, the fourth most populous city in Austria, to optimize his return to the track.
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