Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will attend subsequent week’s Austrian Grand Prix on the Pink Bull Ring – to not rejoin the 2022 championship after his newest prolonged absence, however somewhat to start the method of returning to motion following his newest surgical procedure.
That’s in accordance with the newest replace launched by the Repsol Honda staff, which confirmed rumours that first appeared eventually weekend’s British Grand Prix by revealing that Marquez would attend the Austrian race “to reconnect with the staff and start to make a plan for the long run”.
It comes as he continues to work on his bodily situation following surgical procedure in June to as soon as once more try to restore the injury to the appropriate higher arm he broke in July 2020.
He travelled to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic for the intensive restore – which entailed breaking, twisting and resetting the bone – and now hasn’t raced since Mugello on the finish of Might.
However together with his restoration now lastly feeling prefer it’s making good progress, Marquez has been in a position to return to each the health club and to gentle cardio coaching.
Whereas he’s eager to not but put a deadline on his racing return, it’s clear that he’s transferring in direction of it in a methodical approach.
“Step-by-step I’m feeling higher, and the bone is therapeutic in a great way,” he defined, “which is one of the best information of all. We’re nonetheless in rehabilitation mode; I’m working very arduous on the cardio aspect to attempt to be prepared.
“On the finish of August, I’ve one other medical test, from there we are able to make one other step with the rehabilitation and actually begin pushing and constructing muscle mass. Some days are higher than others, however that is all a part of the journey.
“I’m optimistic, however I don’t need to say an excessive amount of about timings till now we have this test – it’s not the time to push an excessive amount of. I’ve waited a very long time for these sorts of emotions.”
That feeling will come as a welcome reduction, too, because the eight-time world champion admits. Having now endured years of fixed ache and uncertainty, it’s clear that he can now lastly begin to see some gentle on the finish of the tunnel.
“It has been a battle, it’s not two days or two months I’ve been struggling, it’s two years,” he continued. “I received some races final yr like this, however I used to be struggling loads.
“In Jerez I realised one thing needed to change.
“It was arduous and is tough now mentally – not as a result of I’m not racing, however since you all the time have this doubt in regards to the arm.
“I can’t have one other operation. I’m satisfied this one can be good, however these ideas are all the time there at the back of your thoughts.”
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