{"id":261844,"date":"2025-11-04T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:29:08","slug":"marc-marquez-jeopardised-his-motogp-career-if-he-didnt-end-2025-season-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261844\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez \u201cjeopardised\u201d his MotoGP career if he didn\u2019t end 2025 season early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MotoGP medical director Dr Angel Charte believes Marc Marquez \u201cjeopardised\u201d his racing career if he didn\u2019t end his 2025 season early due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time world champion suffered a complicated right shoulder injury when he was taken out in a lap one collision with Marco Bezzecchi at the Indonesian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> originally was assessed by doctors in Madrid as not needing surgery, though this was revised a week later.<\/p>\n<p>While the surgery was successful, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati<\/a> rider will miss the remainder of the 2025 season to continue his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought he will not be fully fit again until pre-season testing begins in February.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Marquez suffered no additional damage to the right humerus he badly injured in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of the pre-existing arm injury, Dr Charte believes Marquez cannot attempt to come back until he is fully fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarquez did what he had to do,\u201d he told Spain\u2019s AS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a serious injury because the arm is really compromised after four operations. I think he will have to come back when he is 100%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a psychological point of view, he is perfectly fine because he has done his duty.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his case, coming back earlier would have been taking a big risk for nothing and it wasn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would have jeopardised his career by coming back early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez\u2019s shoulder injury came just a week after he celebrated his seventh MotoGP world title and his first in six years at the Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>He will be replaced at the final two rounds of the campaign in Portugal and Valencia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1085713\/1\/official-nicolo-bulega-gets-dream-motogp-debut-place-marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Ducati World Superbike star Nicolo Bulega<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia and Malaysia, Ducati test rider Michele Pirro stood in for the injured Marquez.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MotoGP medical director Dr Angel Charte believes Marc Marquez \u201cjeopardised\u201d his racing career if he didn\u2019t end his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-261844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-marc-marquez","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}