Did Marc Marquez take unnecessary risk at Assen? "At home, it doesn't change"
Just a week earlier, the Repsol Honda rider had suffered a fr🍷actured rib and finger, plus ankle damage, in a warm-up highside - his fifth and final accident of a punishing Sachsenring weekend.
It ruled the eight-time world champion out of the German MotoGP r🌺ace, but he was back on his RCV just a few days later for Friday practice in Assen.
Clearly struggling with pain from the rib, Marquez was a shadow of his usual self, managing just 19th on Friday, then▨ 17th in qualifying and the Saturday 🥀Sprint race before the pain became too much to continue.
But Marquez didn’t regret trying and insisted he would go into the summer break with ‘better confidence’ꦚ than if he had skipped the Dutch weekend entirely.
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“It’s 🔯not the best way [to go into the summer break], but it's better than how I finis🐓hed in Sachsenring,” Marquez said.
“In Sachsenr💝ing, I finished with a ma♚ssive highside.
“[At Assen] I finished with not the best feeling, but able to ride a MotoGP bike with one broken rib and one broken finger - and even like this be 7-8 tenths behind the fastest𝓰 guys.
“So this give♛s me better confiܫdence than after the Sunday in Sachsenring.”
Marquez added: “With the fe✤eling of Sachsenring, to then be off the bike for two months [during the summer break], believe me, that's not the best for a ride🐽r.
“I needed to keep riding, keep going, keep try꧃ing… [Staying] at home, the situation will never chang🅰e.”
✤Marquez began the season with pole and a Sprint race podium in Portimao, but then fractured his thumb when he collided with Miguel Oliveira in the Sunday race andꦛ missed the following three rounds.
Sunday accidents at Le Mans and Mugello combined with the early exits at Sachsenring and Assen means ꦺMarquez hasn't completed a single 'graꦓnd prix' race so far this season.
Despite his reduced track time, Marquez's 14 accidents so far this season is mor♏e than any oth🀅er rider.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury💃 issues.
