Marc Marquez training hints at comeback plan - but also his injury past

The Repsol Honda rider posted a series of images to social media duri🤪ng MotoGP's summer break with the caption "getting ready".
One image displayed the severity of the scar from last summer's career-threatening sur✅gery, a permanent reminder of the physical turmoil he has gone through.


Others demonཧstrated his fitness work before t💧he MotoGP season resumes on August 6 at Silverstone.
Marquez has been holi𝓀daying in Mallorca but has found time for training.


The six-time MotoG🃏P champion has endured another dreadful campaign interrupted by injury.
He arrived in Portimao at his fittest for two years but swiftly clattered into Miguel Oliveira, causing a hand injury ꦇwhich made him miss the next three rounds.
Marquez had a horrible Sachsenring weekend - crashing five times before the grand prix, and pulling out just hours before. He𒐪 looked at an all-time low explaining that he wasn't ready to race then, a week later, tried and failed to return at Assen.
Marquez hasn't completed a g𒁃rand prix in 2023 and his championship hopes must wait til next season, at the earl⛄iest.
2024 is the final year on his Honda contract an🗹d his future is the source of much speculation.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade co﷽vering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.