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Turn 7 of the Jerez circuit will remain etched on

Marc Márquez

's body forever : it was where he shattered his right humerus and where his career was split in two.

In the previous seven years in MotoGP, here he had always been on the podium, but since that fatal accident in 2020 there is no way.

If last season he already suffered a crash and finished ninth, this season he is going the same way.

This Friday, in the first two free practice sessions on the Spanish track, Márquez relived a well-known ordeal, all too well known.


He could only register the nineteenth fastest time, more than a second behind the best,

Fabio Quartararo

, but that was not the most serious thing.

In the second stint he crashed twice almost in succession in two different corners: first in turn 6, where his Honda was probably injured, and shortly after in turn 9. Both were low speed mistakes and without consequences, but the chaining was significant.

The image of Márquez approaching his garage as a package for

Dani Pedrosa

's scooter , current KTM tester, who was there, will remain in the memory.

"The problem with the Honda is general, including the pilot. Everything is not in its place. I am not giving everything I could give, the magic," Márquez acknowledged at the DAZN microphones, where he also revealed a fact that weighs on his team.

Right now Honda, the most successful brand in the history of MotoGP, the one with the largest budget, is last in the Constructors' World Championship and a long way from the penultimate, Aprilia.

"Obviously it hurts to be last. In Portimao, when we were in the post-race meeting, the constructors' classification came out and there was silence in the box. It can't be."

Márquez is currently eleventh in the Drivers' World Championship and is ahead of his teammate,

Pol Espargaró

, despite having missed two races.

The equality of the championship means that the leader, Quartararo, has an advantage of 'only' 38 points over him, but Márquez does not see himself coming back and taking the title.

"First of all we have to find the base. They - in reference to

Álex Rins, Aleix Espargaró

and Fabio Quartararo - have a good base and are fighting for the championship. When you have a good base you can go fast on any circuit, that's where We have to work," he analyzed.

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