The Repsol Honda star came through a career-threatening arm surgery last summer and showed ray๊s of lights at the back end of 2022, to sugge🦂st.

A documentary released ahead of this season show🔯ed Marquez’s personal turmoil and his painstaking comeback.

“Sacrifice is a good word to describe the situation,” heꦚ said.

“If you want something, you m꧟ust say no to many things.

“I was livi🍷ng in my h😼ometown but I moved to Madrid because the physios and doctors were here.

“I said no to my friends ๊and family. I changed completely my life.

“This is for one target - to win again.

“Not just to be a ‘good’ rider.

“Last winter I was working in a good way then, at the first race, ‘bang’ anoꦰther injury.”

Marq🐽uez, in the very first spr𒀰int race at Portimao, clattered into Miguel Oliveira, injuring them both.

He required surgery on a hand, and missed thre🍸e rounds.

“It is like a hammer hitting you,” he said. 

“But you must continue. Keep going.

“That’s what I did. I came back at Le Mans, and had a good weeken♈d.

“But with ℱone-and-a-half laps to finish the race, I crashed.

“Another hammer hitting you.

“We will hav🐟e another opportunity. Each time, it is clo✤ser and closer.”

Marquez has yet to complete a grand prix in 2023.

His problems have only worsened - at the Sachsenring, usually among his favourite circuits, he crashe🥂d five times before Sunday’s race and was forced to pull out.

A week later, he rushed a comebacꦿk to Assen but again pulled out of the grand prix, not having recovered enough.

Marquez is 19th in the MotoGP standings with his hopes of a seventh premier class champi𒐪onship gone for at least a year.