MotoGP Austria: ‘Next week I will have the answer’ - Marquez

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez is back in the MotoGP paddock at Austria this weekend, and while not riding, he’s eager to be return soon.

The eight-time champion has a few more weeks to wait before he knows when, or if, he will compete on the world stage once again but is confident his recovery from his fourth round of surgery on his troublesome arm is progressing as he’d hoped.

“Looks like now everything is going in a good way but I know that the decision was really important,” Marquez confirmed to a packed media crowd at the Red Bull Ring. “Because, as I say to you, that decision could have finished my career. Looks like everything is going in a good way but for that reason the doctors take care about all the steps and we are going in a slow way but in a safety way, because we know how important is this recovery?

“Honestly speaking, I feel quite well,” he continued. “It’s true that in the end, is an arm with four operations. Is an arm that receive four operations and of course, we are working to adapt in the best way. But at least now it’s working in a normal way.

“I’m doing already now some exercise that before was impossible but next week, I will have an important check.

“I will have an X ray, and they will understand if I can increase the weight and in that point, when I will increase the weight, when I will ride in the future a bike for the first time, in that moment I will understand immediately if it’s enough or not. But at the moment, we are optimistic because is working and every week I increase the work and the arm is reacting in a good way.

“Since the operation, the first six weeks, completely I didn’t move my arm!” Marquez explained. “The first six weeks, the doctors and I was completely agree - go in a