Marc Márquez will not be at the Qatar Grand Prix this Sunday. This has been announced by the Repsol Honda team in a new statement in which they assure that the rider, together with the doctors, has decided not to compete in the first race of the season: «Marc Márquez, together with his medical team from Hospital Ruber Internacional , they have considered it prudent not to compete again this weekend in Qatar. “” In the review carried out on the Spanish pilot by the medical team led by doctors Samuel Antuña and Ignacio Roger de Oña, and formed by doctors De Miguel, Ibarzabal and García Villanueva, 15 weeks after surgery for an infected pseudoarthrosis of the right humerus, a good clinical response has been found after intensifying his preparation “, the statement continues.” However, considering the period of time and the current state of the process of bone consolidation, doctors consider it prudent and necessary not to accelerate the return of Márquez to the track after so much time inactive, and to avoid putting the humerus at risk with the intention of sity of the competition. Márquez will undergo another medical check-up on Monday, April 12, “he concludes. This means that he will not be in the second round of the championship, which also takes place in Qatar on April 4, while the eight-time world champion was saddened by not being able to be in the first race of the championship. “After the last review with the medical team, the doctors have warned me that the most prudent thing was not to participate in the Qatar Grand Prix and to continue with the recovery plan that we have followed in recent weeks.I would have loved to be able to participate in the inaugural race of the World Cup, but we will have to continue working to be able to recover the optimal conditions that will allow us to return to the competition, “he said in the same statement. In his Twitter profile, Márquez announced that not only is he lost the premiere of MotoGP but will not be in either of the two races held in Qatar: «After the last review with the medical team, I was advised not to participate in the two races in Qatar so we will continue with the recovery to return to compete as soon as possible. In this way, the ilerdense will miss the first two rounds of the World Cup and could return to Portugal. After the last review with the medical team, they have advised me not to participate in the two races in Qatar so we will continue with the recovery to compete again as soon as possible! # MM93 pic.twitter.com/9oouizeSwv – Marc Márquez (@ marcmarquez93) March 22, 2021 In the last few days I had been testing the Honda RC2134V-S in Montmeló and Portimao. However, from his medical team they consider that it is too early to compete again and prefer to be careful not to make the same mistake as last year, which has taken him away from the circuits for so long. So, we will have to wait to see Marc Márquez again. His return is postponed, at least, until the Portuguese GP on April 18.
