{"id":401469,"date":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","slug":"marc-marquez-back-on-asphalt-after-motogp-injury-layoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401469\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez back on asphalt after MotoGP injury layoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has completed his first laps on asphalt since suffering shoulder injuries at last October\u2019s Indonesian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard required surgery after being taken down by Marco Bezzecchi at Mandalika and has since followed a carefully managed recovery programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That progression has seen Marquez move from mountain biking to dirt track, motocross and now back onto tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack on the bike and getting the feeling back \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Marquez wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nine-time world champion Marquez was riding a Ducati Panigale V2 in cold conditions at the Aspar Circuit in Valencia, on the same day that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1088366\/1\/ducati-motogp-race-winner-fermin-aldeguer-suffers-leg-fracture-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fermin Aldeguer suffered a fractured femur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Ducati test rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889494\/michele-pirro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Pirro<\/a> was also present, pictured with Marquez and former triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo, whom Pirro worked with at Ducati in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo is now working with Maverick Vinales, who has also been training at the Aspar facility.<\/p>\n<p>Track action continues on Friday, when Marc\u2019s younger brother and reigning MotoGP title runner-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> is expected to join the action.<\/p>\n<p>Gresini is yet to confirm the predicted recovery time for Alex&#8217;s team-mate Aldeguer, but the season-opening Sepang test is less than a month away, on February 3-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian event will see Marc Marquez&#8217;s first MotoGP laps since his October 5 accident with Bezzecchi.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has completed his first laps on asphalt since suffering shoulder injuries at last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401470,"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-401469","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\/401469","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=401469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}