The MotoGP World Championship currently moves in three very different spheres. On the one hand, knowing who of the three great candidates for the title, the French fabio quartararo (Yamaha), current champion and outstanding leader of the championship; the veteran catalan Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia)revelation pilot of the season and the Italian ‘Pecco’ Bagnaiahead of ranks of the very powerful firm Ducatiwill end up conquering the most desired title.
On the other hand, knowing what the final touches will be that the big teams will do for next season (the only big signing expected is that of the Mallorcan Joan Mir for the official team Repsol Honda) and, finally, to know how, and if, the winged Japanese firm will emerge from one of the most tremendous crises and failures in its entire history.
A decisive CT scan
To solve this last question, that of knowing if Honda, the very powerful Honda, winner of more titles than any other brand, will know how to rise from the ashes in which it has become, we are about to live an (almost) historic moment, when the champion of Cervera (Lleida), Marc Márquez29, will undergo a new medical check-up tomorrow, after his fourth surgery on his arm, humerus and right shoulder, in the mayo clinicof Rochester (Minnesota, United States).
Márquez, who, judging by those who spent several hours with him during his recent visit, last Thursday and Friday, to the Spielberg layout (Austria)“he is already like a bull”, he will undergo a TAC at the hands of the Doctors Samuel Antuna y Angel Cotorrowith the supervision, possibly from the Mayo Clinic itself, of the surgeon who operated on him, the Doctor Joaquin Sanchez de Sotelo. If the medical team treating Márquez gives him the go-ahead, if the humerus has already created enough callus and the bone has consolidated and strengthened, Márquez, Honda and the World Championship will enter a new phase in which everything, everything, can change for the better. For the good of all, including the show and the championship itself.
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Quick recovery
It is evident that when Márquez underwent surgery on June 3 at the Mayo Clinic, no one, no one, not even the most optimistic, thought that the eight-time motorcycling world champion would reappear this season or, at most, would be able to to participate in the last GP of the year, in the first week of November, in Cheste (Valencia).
Well, if, as everything seems to indicate, the doctors give their approval to MM93’s arm, the Catalan rider plans to get back on his Honda in the very important tests that all the MotoGP teams will carry out, on the 6th and 7th of September, in the misano adriatico layoutafter the celebration of San Marino Grand Prix, the previous Sunday. “We don’t need Marc in the grand prix, but we do need him in the test,” says a source from the Japanese team, which, like the rest of the manufacturers, plans to start testing everything they will use next season in those tests.
“We don’t need Marc for the grand prix, we need him for the test,” says a Honda source.
As El Periódico has learned, Márquez’s visit last weekend to the Spielberg circuit (Austria) was far from the protocol that some sold. Márquez, who already knew he was in a position to pass tomorrow’s medical examination and is convinced that the CT scan he will undergo will indicate that his humerus is well welded, had several meetings with the four most important people from the department’s ‘staff’ of competition of Honda (HRC)how are engineers Shinicho Kokubu, Tetsuhiro Kuwata y Takeo Yokoyamaalways in the company of Alberto Puighead of sports for the official team of the winged firm.
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Mark’s opinion
In these meetings, held on Thursday and Friday, in which the engineer and confidant of MM93 was also present, Santi Hernandezthey not only talked about the difficulties that the team is going through and the problems of its RC213V but that the two days of testing that Marc will carry out has already been perfectly planned and, of course, the new material that will be available to him in order, as Alberto Puig himself has recently acknowledged, that “although Marc is not in top form , yes, you will be able to say this works and this does not work”.
In Pol Espargarois Alex Marqueznor probably Takaaki Nakagami they will continue to be, next season, official Honda riders, so all responsibility for the birth, evolution and changes of the future Honda are, as always, in the hands of Marc Márquez, who continues to be, even having only raced six of the 13 races played, the driver with the most points added (60), which gives an idea of the chaos in which his brand mates are involved.
When I say that tomorrow’s TAC should not only change the disastrous and already recognized dynamic that Honda is experiencing but also that of the World Championship, it is because, in effect, if Márquez sees himself released, recovered, improved, in the double Misano test , may decide to bring forward his reappearance, which was scheduled for the last two or three grand prix.
If Márquez decides to return to the MotoGP grid before time, his influence on the results of the races in which he participates can also influence, without a doubt, the resolution of the world title as the winningest rider of all appears on the grid , the rider who can relegate, off the podium, any of the three big favorites to the title in each of the races, even with this poor Honda.
