Aowing to visual impairment as a result of a training fall, the six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez, 28 years old, missed the season finale of the world championship on Sunday (2:00 p.m. live on ServusTV and DAZN) in Valencia. The Honda factory team announced on Tuesday. The Bavarian test driver Stefan Bradl is expected to step in for the Spaniard again and start in Valencia.
“Those are tough moments, when it rains it pours down in torrents,” wrote Marquez on Twitter: “We need patience, but if I’ve learned one thing, it is to deal with difficulties positively.” Marquez had been in the past week Received a slight concussion in a fall from an off-road machine and was absent from the Algarve Grand Prix in Portimao, Portugal. An examination revealed that an optic nerve was damaged and Marquez sought treatment after seeing double.
The 28-year-old couldn’t start the last Moto2 race of the season in 2011 because of the same problems – and had to leave the world championship title to Bradl. Marquez will also be absent from the test drives on November 18 and 19 in Jerez.
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