{"id":625858,"date":"2026-04-23T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:21:09","slug":"marc-marquez-shows-cota-wound-ahead-of-spanish-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625858\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez shows COTA wound ahead of Spanish MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Marquez arrived at Jerez, venue for this weekend\u2019s Spanish MotoGP, with visible damage to his right arm from the COTA practice crash almost a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning world champion lost control at 190km\/h after being caught out by bumps during opening practice at the US Grand Prix, sending him sliding across a gravel trap and into the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit the wall at high speed and have a lot of pain in the neck and on the back,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marquez<\/a> said at the time. \u201cI will be able to ride, but now it&#8217;s time to work with the physio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez also injured his right arm in the fall, but the extent of the damage was concealed beneath bandages for the rest of the COTA weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The factory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati <\/a>rider went on to crash again in the Sprint &#8211; taking out Fabio di Giannantonio &#8211; then recovered to fifth in the grand prix after serving a long lap penalty.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The bandages have since been removed and, despite the lengthy recovery time since COTA, there is still a sizeable wound on Marquez&#8217;s right arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was covered before, and then nobody knows!\u201d Marquez said of the arm injury on Thursday (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t want to cry about it during the race weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez begins the opening European round fifth in the world championship standings and is still searching for his first grand prix podium of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez arrived at Jerez, venue for this weekend\u2019s Spanish MotoGP, with visible damage to his right arm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625859,"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":["post-625858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-ducati-lenovo-team","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\/625858","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=625858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}