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Marc Marquez shows COTA wound ahead of Spanish MotoGP
Marc Marquez arrives at the Spanish MotoGP with visible injuries from his COTA crash.
Marc Marquez arrived at Jerez, venue for this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP, with visible damage to his right arm from the COTA practice crash almost a month ago.
The reigning world champion lost control at 190km/h after being caught out by bumps during opening practice at the US Grand Prix, sending him sliding across a gravel trap and into the barriers.
“I hit the wall at high speed and have a lot of pain in the neck and on the back,” Marquez said at the time. “I will be able to ride, but now it’s time to work with the physio.”
Marquez also injured his right arm in the fall, but the extent of the damage was concealed beneath bandages for the rest of the COTA weekend.
The factory Ducati rider went on to crash again in the Sprint – taking out Fabio di Giannantonio – then recovered to fifth in the grand prix after serving a long lap penalty.
The bandages have since been removed and, despite the lengthy recovery time since COTA, there is still a sizeable wound on Marquez’s right arm.
“It was covered before, and then nobody knows!” Marquez said of the arm injury on Thursday (pictured).
“I didn’t want to cry about it during the race weekend.”
Marquez begins the opening European round fifth in the world championship standings and is still searching for his first grand prix podium of the season.
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Marc Marquez arrives at the Spanish MotoGP with visible injuries from his COTA crash.
Marc Marquez arrived at Jerez, venue for this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP, with visible damage to his right arm from the COTA practice crash almost a month ago.
The reigning world champion lost control at 190km/h after being caught out by bumps during opening practice at the US Grand Prix, sending him sliding across a gravel trap and into the barriers.
“I hit the wall at high speed and have a lot of pain in the neck and on the back,” Marquez said at the time. “I will be able to ride, but now it’s time to work with the physio.”
Marquez also injured his right arm in the fall, but the extent of the damage was concealed beneath bandages for the rest of the COTA weekend.
The factory Ducati rider went on to crash again in the Sprint – taking out Fabio di Giannantonio – then recovered to fifth in the grand prix after serving a long lap penalty.
The bandages have since been removed and, despite the lengthy recovery time since COTA, there is still a sizeable wound on Marquez’s right arm.
“It was covered before, and then nobody knows!” Marquez said of the arm injury on Thursday (pictured).
“I didn’t want to cry about it during the race weekend.”
Marquez begins the opening European round fifth in the world championship standings and is still searching for his first grand prix podium of the season.
Marc Marquez arrived at Jerez, venue for this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP, with visible damage to his right arm from the COTA practice crash almost a month ago.
The reigning world champion lost control at 190km/h after being caught out by bumps during opening practice at the US Grand Prix, sending him sliding across a gravel trap and into the barriers.
“I hit the wall at high speed and have a lot of pain in the neck and on the back,” Marquez said at the time. “I will be able to ride, but now it’s time to work with the physio.”
Marquez also injured his right arm in the fall, but the extent of the damage was concealed beneath bandages for the rest of the COTA weekend.
The factory Ducati rider went on to crash again in the Sprint – taking out Fabio di Giannantonio – then recovered to fifth in the grand prix after serving a long lap penalty.
The bandages have since been removed and, despite the lengthy recovery time since COTA, there is still a sizeable wound on Marquez’s right arm.
“It was covered before, and then nobody knows!” Marquez said of the arm injury on Thursday (pictured).
“I didn’t want to cry about it during the race weekend.”
Marquez begins the opening European round fifth in the world championship standings and is still searching for his first grand prix podium of the season.
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