At 7:30 a.m. this Monday, Minnesota time (seven hours less than in Spain), Marc Márquez uploaded a publication on his social networks in which he was seen already on the plane that was bringing him back to Madrid after spending just under six days in the United States. ‘Last flight’ and the emoticon of a house was what the Honda pilot wrote, with his own image inside the plane.
Márquez announced during the Saturday of the 2022 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix, 10 days ago, that he was going to undergo surgery for the fourth time on the arm that was injured in Jerez in July 2020, with the aim of definitively solving the humerus injury that has haunted ever since.
On Tuesday of last week he traveled, along with his trusted physiotherapist, to Minnesota, and underwent surgery by Dr. Joaquín Sánchez-Sotelo at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester two days later, on Thursday.
After three postoperative days, the last one already installed in a hotel outside the medical center, Márquez began his return this Monday to Madrid, where the medical team led by Samuel Antuña, who operated on him the third time this same injury, in December 2020, he will supervise the rehabilitation of the arm that has given him so many headaches in recent months and years.
According to Sánchez-Sotelo, the intervention on Thursday was “complex” but it was completed “successfully”, something that does not really clear up any questions about the recovery periods that, at first, were speculated to be around five months.
In this way, the Cervera rider will not return to the MotoGP grid until next season, a 2023 in which he hopes to leave all problems behind and enjoy riding his Honda again.
Marc Marquez, Team Repsol Honda
