Marc Márquez has hit rock bottom. In the five Grands Prix that he has contested in the 2023 season, he has suffered 14 falls, losing four races due to injury.
In fact, failed to finish any main racehaving achieved in the sprint races the 15 points that he has in his locker.
At the German Grand Prix, his total divorce with the leadership of Honda became more than evident. The decision of the Cervera driver not to race at the Sachsenring after the fall he suffered in the ‘warm up’ was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and in recent days the possibility has slipped, both by Márquez and the team. of break the contract that binds them until the end of 2024.
In the Grand Prix of the Netherlands he suffered a fall again, this time in the qualifying session, although all the responsibility lay with the Catalan. He collided with Enea Bastianini as he looked back to avoid blocking the drivers coming up on a fast lap, which condemned him to start in seventeenth position.
Despite in the first laps of the sprint race he managed to climb to eleventh placethe lack of rhythm of the Honda made him fall in the second half of the test, finishing again in the seventeenth position.
Critical moment for Marc
After the race, Márquez spoke to the media and acknowledged that he was going through the worst moment of his life as a pilot.
“On a mental level it is the hardest moment of my sports career. It’s time to continue working with a lot of sacrifice and finish the race tomorrow”, Márquez said in statements to ‘DAZN’.
The ’93’ already puts the focus on the next appointment on the calendar, the British Grand Prixfrom July 7 to 9, where he hopes to arrive in better physical and mental conditions.
“There is a week and a half of beach to be calm and reflect and see if we are physically better at Silverstone”, concluded Marc Márquez.
