HARD!
The current MotoGP championship table might not say as much. But things are starting to look pretty rosy again for former champion Marc Marquez. The Catalan’s battling instincts were certainly on show over the past month as he displayed flashes of his former level, having gone to hell and back over a nine-month period after breaking the humerus bone in his right arm during last season’s Spanish Grand Prix.
Marquez broke his right humerus bone last July. The humerus is a bad bone to break and has ended many careers, including Carl Fogarty’s, who later described himself as being “one percent of the guy I had been.”
Marquez had the fracture pinned and four days later was at the next race, determined to win a seventh MotoGP title. Big mistake – riding a MotoGP bike further damaged the arm.
Two weeks later he went under the knife again, to replace the bent titanium plate. Four months later surgeons went in again because the fracture had become infected, so it wasn’t healing. A bone graft from his pelvis did the trick.
Marquez returned at April’s Portuguese GP. He
