Marc Marquez to miss two MotoGP rounds with shoulder injury

The seven-time MotoGP satellite champion volition beryllium retired of enactment until November aft reinjuring his enarthrosis successful a clang connected the weekend.

Newly crowned MotoGP champion Marc Marquez volition miss the adjacent 2 rounds of the play successful Australia and Malaysia aft suffering a fracture and ligament wounded to his close enarthrosis successful a clang astatine the Indonesian Grand Prix, Ducati said.

Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi collided with the rear of Marquez’s Ducati connected Sunday and the brace some hurtled into the gravel astatine precocious speed, with Marquez appearing to beryllium successful important discomfort aft tumbling caput implicit heels.

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Marquez, who won his seventh MotoGP title astatine the Japanese Grand Prix connected September 28, was hunched implicit connected the broadside of the way for a mates of minutes earlier staggering to his feet and lurching distant portion clutching his shoulder.

The wounded was connected the enarthrosis of the limb Marquez had fractured successful the 2020 July season-opening Spanish Grand Prix successful Jerez, an incidental which ruled him retired for an extended play and required respective surgeries.

In a connection connected Monday, Ducati said Marquez had “suffered a fracture astatine the basal of the coracoid process and a ligament wounded to his close shoulder.

“Clinical introspection and radiological appraisal person ruled retired immoderate transportation with erstwhile injuries and person besides confirmed the lack of important bony displacement.”

Marquez could inactive vie astatine Grands Prix successful Portugal (November 7-9) and Valencia (November 14-16), but helium stressed that helium would not unreserved his recovery.

“My extremity is to beryllium backmost earlier the extremity of the season, but without rushing things beyond the doctors’ recommendations,” the Spaniard added.

“Both my idiosyncratic and the team’s main goals person been achieved, truthful present the precedence is to retrieve decently and instrumentality astatine 100%.”

Marquez’s wounded came conscionable a week aft helium won his seventh MotoGP satellite title astatine the Japanese Grand Prix [File: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP]