Alex Marquez has aborted his MotoGP return from injury at the Czech Grand Prix, withdrawing from the weekend after qualifying.<\/p>\n
Marquez returned to MotoGP action at Brno after missing two rounds following his monster crash during the Catalan Grand Prix, when he slammed into Pedro Acosta’s suddenly-slow KTM and then came perilously close to hitting the wall.<\/p>\n
He had suffered a neck vertebra fracture – although has since insisted this was more minor than such phrasing usually implies – and more substantial damage to the collarbone, which he said was “broken in four pieces”.<\/p>\n
His only target coming to Brno was to progress through the weekend session by session – and he was passed fit to complete the weekend, while also admitting on Friday that he was feeling “much better than I was expected” and also running much quicker than he’d expected.<\/p>\n
But while his qualifying performance was also solid enough – less than a tenth off a spot in Q2 – Marquez has now withdrawn from Brno.<\/p>\n
His Gresini team says the decision was taken “with the aim of continuing his recovery in the best possible way”.<\/p>\n
The other rider under medical duress this weekend, Raul Fernandez, seems to be in the clear to see out the weekend – having struggled with an inflamed appendix in the lead-up to Brno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez has aborted his MotoGP return from injury at the Czech Grand Prix, withdrawing from the weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-748983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748983","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=748983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}