• MotoGP. The pact between Marc Márquez and Honda: "Our idea was to be absent"

Capitulation reached the third, when bravery was already foolish. In the first corners of his first lap of the qualifying session in Jerez, Marc Márquez accepted that the fracture in his right shoulder needed rest and decided to get off the bike. Impossible. Too painful. After much suffering, his team, the Repsol Honda , finally managed to get the reigning champion to give up running and accept the rest until the Brno race in two weeks . It was a relief for everyone, especially for those responsible for the team, because before twice they had tried to convince Marquez and they had not succeeded.

" He wanted to test and he has done it . We wanted to give him the opportunity because we understood that a champion cannot stay at home if he thinks he has a small chance of running. He has tried and now there are many races left," said Alberto Puig , chiefs of the Repsol Honda after a few committed days. Since Tuesday, Dr. Xavier Mir operated on Márquez "too well," according to Puig himself, and since the pilot showed his intention to travel to Jerez on Wednesday, his team managers had sought how to stop his star . First they invited him to a first session of rehabilitation in Barcelona, ​​but this did not intimidate him. Then they agreed with Márquez a meeting after the third training session, but this did not help either.

After giving three runs of five laps in that third session, Márquez maintained his firm intention to compete, to strive to be in the top 10 in tomorrow's race (14.00 hours, DAZN) and that is why his superiors had to improvise one last demand . In the agreed meeting, which barely lasted five minutes, those responsible for Repsol Honda had no choice but to accept their participation in the qualifying session, but before they demanded that, in the fourth training session, they do a longer batch of at least seven laps. It was the way to put Márquez close to the demand that he would live in a career and that request finally made him change his mind

"In the morning, in the third training session, he made contact with the bike and we saw that he could even go fast, but this afternoon [in the fourth session] he found himself worse, with more pain . That's when everyone, team and driver, we have understood that the best thing was not to take more risks. Now his arm is a little swollen, he is in pain, "added Puig as Marquez went to his visibly afflicted motorhome . When he got off the bike, in fact, he did not even go to his mechanics, who were waiting for his instructions. He left the garage directly, evidenced that his right shoulder could not hold.

With all the cameras chasing him during the qualifying session, what happened on the asphalt did not gain interest and it did not. Fabio Quartararo celebrated pole position as he had done just a week before, although this time Maverick Viñales was very close to snatch it away. The Spanish lowered his time on the last lap, but the stewards canceled it for having exceeded the limits of the track. Predictably both will dispute the victory.

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