Alberto Puig, Honda team boss, says the company is “trying to understand why” Marc Marquez was involved in the “severe” incident that forced him to withdraw from Sunday’s MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix.
In the latter minutes of Sunday’s warm-up session, the six-time world title suffered a severe highside at Turn 7 and fell heavily on his left side.
Marquez’s feet were bewildered, and he was brought to a medical centre for precautionary checks. It was discovered that he had sustained a concussion, and he was pronounced unfit to race.
On his RC213V, he strained all weekend, crashing twice in Q1 and enduring numerous rear-end problems throughout the session.
Due to the strain exerted on the front tyre by Michelin’s choice to carry a tougher rear tyre to fight Indonesia’s severe heat, Honda had severe rear grip issues, with Pol Espargaro afraid he wouldn’t have been able to complete a dry Mandalika GP.
“Marc had these three crashes and we have to try to understand why, since his crash from today was brutal,” Puig told motogp.com before of Sunday’s weather-delayed race.
“Honestly speaking we need to analyse. They [Michelin] brought here a different tyre and we have to understand everything, and at this moment it’s difficult.
“Our rider crashed and we want to understand, so I don’t think I can give you any precise info.
“Finally, he had a massive crash and we decided it was not correct under the circumstance after this concussion in the head to bring him to the track.”
Espargaro finished 12th in the rainy Indonesian race and was the top Honda rider to cross the finish line.
When questioned about Marquez’s accident, Espargaro stated he was “fortunate” he didn’t get hurt, but that it was due to “an external partner’s bad choice.”
“Yeah, I mean this was our situation all the weekend,” Espargaro began.
“When we were complaining about Michelin, during all the weekend it’s not because we like to complain about Michelin.
“It’s because we were facing serious problems about front tyre consumption through the race.
“We were not able to finish the race because the consumption on the front tyre was too high, and the rear was locking on the corners to all the riders all the weekend.
“So, when we complain it’s because we feel really that we have a problem and finally from being fast and safe on the test, we were slow and I think today Marc was lucky to not get injured, and if he did get injured this would be a consequence of an external partner’s bad choice this weekend.”
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