Marquez suffers hand damage in violent MotoGP qualifying atomize
Marquez suffered a vicious highside within the outlet phases of Q1 on the Ricardo Tormo Circuit on the Flip 11 appropriate-hander, landing heavily on his bottom.
Despite being unhurried to get hang of to his toes, Marquez did get hang of aid to his Honda garage to consume his 2nd bike – though handiest done an outlap before calling time on his session. He became taken to scientific institution for assessments, where he became diagnosed with a bone marrow edema within the capitate bone of his left hand.
Marquez will hotfoot within the good and cozy-up session on Sunday before taking a probability to trudge.
“It became no longer an effortless day on the present time in any admire,” Marquez, who licensed in 20th, said. “First the situations were very no longer easy, by no device completely dry and by no device completely wet. When it came to Q1 I knew I had to push even supposing it became smooth unhealthy, I became pushing very no longer easy for a bigger lap time and unfortunately I had a if truth be told gigantic atomize.
“I came down very no longer easy on my hip and decrease aid, after a minute I became in a train to get hang of aid and I attempted to exit on the 2nd bike nevertheless when the adrenaline wore off, it became clear I couldn’t assign every other lap. Now we proper have to scrutinize what the hassle is fancy the next day to come.”
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KTM’s Brad Binder became correct now on the aid of Marquez when he crashed and says he became lucky to aid faraway from being struck by the errant RC213V.
“It became comparatively traumatic,” said Binder. “It bit him so mercurial, he became so early within the nook and that became a handsome indication that there became presumably a bit bit of water down. I became if truth be told lucky that I determined to set a bit left turn. If I proper… It gave the impact it became already on the aid of me and I determined to head left anyway.
“I wager the bike would have potentially landed on my handlebar or no no longer as a lot as on the facet of me, so I became comparatively lucky to crawl faraway from that one and not utilizing a concerns. It became comparatively sketchy.”