Marc Marquez confesses he would not have raced in the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix if he had known about his 4th arm surgery sooner.
The six-time MotoGP championship winner stated on Saturday at Mugello that he will retire from competition for the time being – probably until the end of 2022 – in order to undergo a 4th surgery in America on his severely broken right arm from 2020.
On Friday, during practise sessions at Mugello, Marquez received information of the operation and kept going with the race, qualifying 12th and finished 10th.
Marquez believes he would have sat out the Italian Grand Prix if he had known about his procedure beforehand, after a “emotional” possible final outing in 2022.
“Yeah, it was a very demanding weekend, not only about physical side, that every weekend I suffer a lot this season,” Marquez said.
“But especially about mental side it was very difficult to keep the concentration.
“It’s true that I received the news on Friday, but if I received that news on Wednesday or Thursday I will not race here.
“But I received on Friday, I was here. Honda allowed me to choose what was best for me.
“I decided to continue the weekend because I have raced until now. [I said] ‘I will take a risk because you are riding 350km/h, but I will work for you and I worked a lot this weekend’.
“I worked for Honda to give my input for the future. It was a difficult race, I enjoyed six, seven laps in the beginning.
“I did a great start and I saw the front group and I was able to ride in more or less the same pace.
“But I had one warning and I gave up, because I saw I had arm pump and a lot of pain and a lack of power.
“I finished the race, I found my group, just I ride, I finished the race. Was emotional but it was good.”
Marquez also said that the troubles he’s used to have with his right arm after he was injured in July of 2020 have “impacted a lot” of his regular living. He had only 2 years of racing left in him if he hadn’t chosen to get another operation.
“My daily life is affected a lot,” he added.
“I was training a lot at home with motocross, with road bikes, with any kind of bikes I was training a lot.
“Now normal life is go home, rest for two, three days because I can’t do anything, just some legs, some cycling.
“And then I start to train again, physio, painkillers.
“I say to my doctors and to my people, riding like this I will do one more year, two more years – not more, because I am not enjoying it and I’m suffering a lot and I cannot support this on the mental side.
“But having the operation, I hope my life changes. The last two years were not easy.”
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