Come back Marc Márquez. It’s official. The most anticipated statement from the Repsol Honda team confirmed a few minutes ago that its eighth champion returns to the track to compete this weekend at the Aragón Grand Prixthree months after undergoing the fourth operation on his right arm, injured in Jerez 2020.
Márquez contested his last race at the Italian circuit of Mugello, at the end of May and on June 2 he was intervened at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota), by the eminent surgeon and traumatologist Joaquín Sánchez Sotelo, who performed a humeral osteotomy to correct 30% of the rotation of the bone at the elbow.
This is how he announced his reappearance on Tuesday:
After initially resting and undergoing complete check-ups every six weeks, Marc received the medical discharge at the end of August. After resuming his training with some normality, he got on a CBR 600 before participating in the two MotoGP group test days last week in Misano. Once there, the man from Cervera received the OK from the World Cup medical services and was able to complete one hundred laps of the Marco Simoncelli circuit with a best time of 1.31.642, just over half a second from the absolute track record.
On Monday, Márquez rode the series Honda again at the MotorLand circuit, where this Friday he will star in a reappearance that generates maximum expectations, both among the fans and by the championship organization, which with the withdrawal of Valentino Rossi and the Márquez’s injury, has seen the World Cup audiences decrease in recent times.
The objective for Aragón will be to continue improving your fitness on the bike and evaluate performance in intensity during a Grand Prix and a race. The MotorLand Aragón Circuit can be considered a “home” track for Márquez and where the support of the local fans has always given him a plus.
