Marc Marquez quoted, “My grandfather told me leave now, it’s enough”
Marc Marquez quoted, “My grandfather told me leave now, it’s enough”: The two-year battle of Marc Marquez against arm and eye injuries was enough to prompt his grandfather to make him implore the six-time MotoGP champion to call it a day.
Marquez responded to his grandfather by promising that the latest operation to improve mobility in his right arm will be the last. This surgery will mark the fourth surgery on the beleaguered bone since July 2020.
Interacting with DAZN, Marquez said: “My grandfather told me – leave it now, you have enough to live on, what you have done is done, leave it”
“I promised my grandfather: ‘It is the last chance for the arm’. I told him that if this one does not, there are no more places [on the arm] left to open.”
Fortunately, Marquez has started to notice an improvement following June’s bone alignment operation in the USA.
“[When] they took the sling off, I started to move my arm, I could pick up a glass normally and I could eat a piece of meat without lifting my elbow,” the 29-year-old confirmed.
“Now I eat like a normal person, it is just little things. I have not lifted my arm 90 degrees for a year. I have been on a high for two weeks now, but there will be lows, it happens.”
Earlier this week, Marquez was given the green light allowing him to intensify training. He is allowed to assess the condition of his arm on a motorcycle.
Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig hopes that Marquez will be fit so that he could complete at least some MotoGP laps at the Misano test on September 6-7, to help advise on bike development for 2023.
Marquez is positioned 15th in the world championship. In spite of that, he is still the top Honda rider. He has missed seven of this year’s 13 rounds.