Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez, who missed two Grands Prix due to his violent fall during warm-up in Indonesia, will return to competition this weekend in Austin, his Honda team announced on Wednesday.
Plagued by vision problems since then, the 29-year-old Spanish driver “received permission from his medical team” to line up for the Grand Prix of the Americas, the fourth round of the season.
“Doctors cleared Marc Marquez to return to Grand Prix competition after his crash during the Indonesian GP warm-up and subsequent diagnosis of diplopia,” his team said in a statement.
“I’m very happy to be back, it’s great to be back and especially on one of my favorite tracks. Whatever the situation, I really love riding in Texas and I have incredible memories there” , explains Marquez in the press release.
Six-time champion in the premier class between 2013 and 2019, Marquez broke his right arm during the first Grand Prix of 2020. This fracture and complications deprived him of the entire season. The beginnings of a calvary.
He had gradually returned but at the end of 2021, a new fall in training, in motocross, had ruled him out of the last two races of the year, due to a problem of diplopia (doubling of vision) this time.
On March 20, Marquez fell heavily, withdrawing a few hours before the Indonesian Grand Prix and waking up his vision problems. Absent in Argentina last week, he hopes to be back for good in the United States.
A circuit which indeed corresponds to him perfectly: since the championship occurs there in 2013, Marquez has won seven of the eight editions, (2020 edition canceled due to the pandemic), including that of last year.
In his absence, it was his compatriot Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) who took the championship lead after three rounds.
In his quest to return to the top, after two seasons won by the Spaniard Joan Mir (Suzuki) and the French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), Marquez is currently 15th, 34 points from the leader.
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