MotoGP Mugello: Marquez set for surgery in the States

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez will head to the United States instead of the Catalunya GP next week in a bid to recover fitness in his right shoulder.

The eight-time world champion will undergo further surgery on his damaged arm at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, following the 2020 Jerez accident that kept him off the RC213V for nine months. With his rehabilitation facing further set backs due to infection and reduced mobility over the past two seasons.

The Spaniard explained his continuing suffering is leading to ongoing injuries with the new surgery aiming to correct the rotation impairment in a bid to return to his former glory as he remains under contract with the Repsol Honda team for a further two seasons.

“I will have surgery next week,” Marquez confirmed from Mugello on Saturday. “Since I had the first injury in my right arm, everything was really, really complicated, plus the infection was the worst thing.

“My doctor did an amazing job 18 months ago trying to take care about that infection and just to recover my bone and was a success but it’s true that after that period, since I come back riding the bike, I feel a big limitations. Even like this, I never give up, I just keep pushing, keep working. Doing what the doctors say.

“I realise this season that I’m not enjoying, I’m just suffering a lot, a lot of pain. I don’t have power. I cannot ride like I want. I start to injure the left shoulder because I’m pushing too much with the left arm.

“My performance is not bad, but it’s not the one that I want so together with Dr. Samuel Antuña and Dr. Angel Cotorro we evaluate, already long time ago. In October when I have the first injury with my vision, I say to them, ‘why we don’t consider to make something in