{"id":358495,"date":"2025-12-19T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358495\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:09:07","slug":"marc-marquez-reveals-he-is-on-the-verge-of-motorcycle-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358495\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez reveals he is on the verge of motorcycle return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Marquez has confirmed he will soon be back riding a motorcycle as he continues his recovery from shoulder injuries sustained at Mandalika.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time world champion dominated the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> season in his debut year with the factory<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Ducati<\/a> team, before being taken down by Marco Bezzecchi in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed with a coracoid fracture and ligament damage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marquez<\/a> hoped to avoid surgery. However, when the shoulder failed to stabilise naturally, the Spaniard was forced to go under the knife.<\/p>\n<p>The injury ruled Marquez out of the final four rounds of the season and the Valencia post-race test.<\/p>\n<p>After recently posting images of his first mountain bike ride since the operation, Marquez has now revealed the next step in his recovery timeline.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Upon collecting the \u2018Heart of Spain\u2019 award at the 20th COE Gala in Madrid, Marquez said the broken bones are almost healed, adding: &#8220;Next week we&#8217;ll start getting used to the throttle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Ducati&#8217;s end of year Campioni in Festa celebrations in Bologna on Friday, Marquez said: &#8220;The bone has reattached itself, and the ligament is where it needs to be.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marquez estimates that his shoulder is currently at &#8220;70-80%&#8221; fitness and repeated his intention to be &#8220;back on a bike&#8221; by the end of next week.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez is set to make his return to a MotoGP bike during the opening test of 2026, at Sepang, in early February.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ducati has revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1088288\/1\/ducati-reveals-marc-marquez-motogp-title-replica-2185hp-panigale-v4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">images and specifications for a limited edition Panigale V4 replica<\/a> to celebrate Marquez\u2019s 2025 MotoGP title.<\/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":"Marc Marquez has confirmed he will soon be back riding a motorcycle as he continues his recovery from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,8456,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati","11":"tag-ducati-lenovo-team","12":"tag-marc-marquez","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358495","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=358495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}