There are hours of waiting to know if Marc Marquez will participate in the Aragon GP, after a long absence from the races interrupted by participation in the Misano test.
Marc Marquez is back in the saddle of his Honda RC213V 100 days after the last arm surgery. It is difficult to predict his presence in Aragon in a week, but in the coming days the champion and his team will have to announce whether to reconfirm the replacement Stefan Bradl or the time has come to see the eight-time champion regularly on the track.
There are many factors to evaluate in the HRC box and at Marquez, because there is nothing at stake this season except honor. The real priority is the development of the prototype 2023 and in Misano test HRC engineers have brought some components to the track for the next championship, such as a new aerodynamic package, an aluminum rear swingarm, some chassis updates. Small details from which to start again after the lack of results in the last two years 2021-2022.
Marc Marquez and the doubtful Aragon
The doctors who follow the rehabilitation of Marc Marquez they have already let him know that the bone will only be 100 percent completely during the winter. No risk of sudden fractures, as happened after the first operation due to the immediate return to action, but tendonitis must be avoided. And in this moment the arm of the champion is more important than any other team and contractual commitment.
Everything proceeds step by step. On Tuesday he only rode in the morning, making 39 laps, avoiding straining his humerus even in the afternoon. On the second day of the IRTA test Marc Marquez worked a double shift, also participating in the afternoon session and signing his best time less than 6 tenths from the best lap of Fabio Quartararo. The physicist responded well, but the commitment of a race weekend is much higher than that of a test.
Marc has made outings of a maximum of six or seven laps at a time, a Grand Prix requires you to be at the limit for twenty laps or more. Alberto Puig, Honda team manager, does not hide the difficulties of his rider at the end of the first day of testing at Misano. At the same time he has already amazed the men of his team, considering that he finished as the best rider of the Honda brand in the combined standings, despite having been missing on the track for almost four months. “It is surprising but in the end it is not, because it is Marc“, Added the Catalan team manager. “Logically, the position on the bike is different, it has some muscle discomfort, because it has been out for a long time and it is normal. He has pains all over, especially in the chest. He doesn’t have the strength he needs, but we’re happy with his condition“.
