Tremendous crack from the former Honda boss: "Marc Márquez went too far because they allowed him to"

The start of the World Cup is approaching and doubts continue about the presence of Marc Márquez in the March 28 race in Qatar. His recovery is on the right track, the antibiotic treatment for the infection is taking effect and little by little he is improving. However, the controversy over the recovery process continues. The last to comment was Livio Suppo, former boss of the Repsol Honda team in MotoGP, who was very critical of the situation. Suppo did not want to assess whether the Japanese team plans to take legal measures for medical negligence, as is speculated. In a gathering on the Paddock TV channel, where he is a regular, he spoke about the injury of the Cervera rider and expressed his concern about the physical condition in which he will return: «There will surely be legal issues, but I think that is not very interesting for the drivers. fans. I am concerned that Marc will return in shape, because he is a young boy who has suffered a trauma that has conditioned him a lot, so I just want him to return to the maximum. “” The problem is not so much how he broke the plate, the problem is because I was broken. I think it’s better if it happened before Márquez returned to the track, in Brno, as was initially thought, because if it happened while competing, the consequences could have been more serious. The point is that he returned to compete so few days after the operation, I have always insisted that the responsibility lies with the doctors who gave him the OK to do it, “he explains. Suppo assures that Márquez is not to blame for what happened. «The pilot went too far because they have allowed him to. The responsibility, I repeat, belongs to the doctors. He should not have been allowed to ride such a demanding motorcycle.I’m not a doctor and I can’t say if that first operation was the right one, but I do think it was crazy to give him the OK with such a short recovery time. If I had been Honda’s crew chief, as I was at the time, I would have done everything possible to prevent Marc from racing. I am afraid that in this situation only Emilio (Alzamora) was against me competing, the rest did want to. ”Whoever was responsible for Honda in the World Championship for years considers that it was a serious mistake to rush with the deadlines and assures that“ yes All this would not have happened, Márquez would have been able to fight for the World Cup safely, if he had not won it, nothing would have happened either. Marc is a phenomenon, you have to protect that phenomenon, not worry only about winning one more title. The absolute priority should have been to preserve the person, it should always be that way in health matters, in any case. “” I don’t understand the signing of Pol Espargaró. “Suppo was not only critical of what happened with Marc Márquez, but also was against the signing of Pol Espargaró by the Repsol Honda team. “Pol Espargaró has been in MotoGP for many years, he has had competitive bikes, like the Tech3 Yamaha, and he has not achieved great results, not even last season when the KTMs won and he did not. I honestly do not understand his arrival at Honda … maybe he will win the World Cup and I will be like a cretin, but today I certainly do not understand his signing. ”Finally, he spoke about the statements of Márquez’s chief mechanic, Santi Hernández, criticizing the possibility that Dovizioso replaced Marc for a few races: “It’s a bit strange that a crew chief allows himself to make statements like this, he shouldn’t be the one to speak in a team.I imagine it is his personal point of view, that he does not do it on behalf of the brand. The problem is that Dovizioso had said that he was not willing to replace Márquez just for a few races, although now I don’t know if something has changed because his representative talks about the possibility of being in the Qatar test.