At his MotoGP debut at age 24, Alex Marquez he has already won two podiums, moreover consecutive, at Le Mans and in Gp d’Aragon.
A remarkable result for the 2019 world champion in Moto2, who is thus holding up the illustrious surname he carries in a cursed year for his brother Marc, forced to undergo two shoulder surgeries that forced him to miss a good part of the 2020 season, already tormented and started four months late due to the Coronavirus pandemic, thus remaining out of the race for the world title.
Yet, there are still those who hope to see the world champion return to the track MotoGp 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 before the end of the season.
However, Marc’s ordeal may not be over. According to rumors from Spain, in fact, Marquez it could have to undergo a new operation, a hypothesis that would definitively wipe out any hypothesis of return during the current season by moving the date of the return to 2021.
At the end of the Aragon Grand Prix won by Alex Rins and which allowed Joan Mir to take the lead in the rider standings, the Honda manager Emilio Alzamora he did not want to express himself on the subject. Indeed, the team made it known that they were not aware of any planned operation for their driver, underlining the complexity of the recovery plan that has already been agreed with the medical team.
Marquez remedied the fracture of the right humerus due to a fall during the first GP of the season, that of Spain, and then suffered a stress break in the titanium plate that was inserted in his arm to remedy the injury and then a new operation. In between, the vain attempt to return during the Andalusian GP, the second of the season, which was wrecked during Saturday’s practice.
OMNISPORT | 21-10-2020 18:57