Marc Marquez, a six-time MotoGP title holder, says he “doesn’t recall a lot” about the severe Indonesia accident that left him with more visual difficulties and forced him to miss a race.
Last month, the Honda racer was pushed from his motorbike during warm-up at Mandalika and sustained a concussion, forcing him to withdraw from the Indonesian Grand Prix.
He then developed blurry vision, or double vision, which prompted him to withdraw from two races in 2021 and forcing him to miss the Argentina Grand Prix while he healed.
Marquez’s individual physicians have cleared him to compete in this weekend’s Americas GP at the Circuit of the Americas, however he will have to face a formal MotoGP health examination at 1:30pm local time.
Marquez admitted on Thursday that he doesn’t recall much from the Mandalika disaster.
“Actually, I don’t remember a lot, I remember more from the video, from the images, than what I feel that I remember,” last year’s Americas GP winner said when asked about the crash.
“But it’s true that the Indonesian GP was one of the worst GPs in my career because I crashed too many times, did some crashes that I didn’t understand, especially the warm-up crash, I was with a new rear tyre and I just had the high side.
“But anyway, it’s the past, now it’s time to build again that confidence, to build again that process. Of course, it was really hard in Indonesia but it was harder the next week after the incident, but lucky for me, I’m here, so that’s positive.”
After Michelin supplied a tougher tyre shell that hadn’t been utilised 2018 and was distinct from the one used in February’s pre-season beyond these experienced blistering difficulties, Honda was hampered by rear grip issues all weekend in Indonesia.
Alberto Puig, the HRC team boss, retaliated against Michelin for statements made over the Indonesia weekend, implying that Honda just didn’t actually know how to adapt to the new tyre casing.
Marquez hesitantly agreed with Michelin’s answer when questioned by Motorsport.com at COTA if the tyre was to blame for his collision.
“I was lucky because, ok I was injured in the vision, but my body was ok,” he said. “So, even that I miss that race and Argentina I feel lucky about that crash.
“The reason I think was the different casing on the rear that we didn’t adapt well or didn’t change well the set-up to that casing.”
Marquez also confessed that he wanted to come back to Argentina last week but “didn’t feel inspired” to do so – and that his strategy at COTA cannot be to compete for the win.
“The approach for this weekend, the approach cannot be the victory even because I don’t feel [like I can do it],” he added. “I just want to build up the confidence again, was really hard week after Indonesia.
“I didn’t even feel motivated to come to Argentina and race and I preferred to stay calm. Now it’s just trying to build the confidence again, and if I don’t feel it then don’t push because then an unexpected crash will arrive like Indonesia.”
Marquez was also told that the chances of his visual difficulties reappearing after a crash are the same “this weekend and one year, two years” after consulting with his doctor.
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