Brittle boned ex-MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will miss this weekend’s Argy GP having suffered another episode of diplodocus – more commonly known as double vision.
The fragile Spaniard suffered a horror highside in Indonesia where in morning warm-up he was flung off his evil Honda and out of the troposphere before crashing down on his noggin. Marquez was chipped off the track and taken immediately to a hospital bed that had been already set up for him on Thursday.
This week though doctors have revealed that Marc’s spill once again caused the nerve between his noodle and his peeper to go for a total burton leaving him feeling dizzy with no depth perception and, hopefully, involuntarily talking like a pirate. All this maybe useful if auditioning for Jack Sparrow at his local Amateur Dramatic club but for MotoGP it’s rendered the elder Marquez brother unfit to ride this weekend.
So we ask the question – what now for Marc’s career? Is this latest episode trivial, troublesome or terminal for Marquez?
Trivial
Like being accidentally stuck in a lift with Alberto Puig this episode is merely something that can be brushed off after a few weeks of feeling queasy.
If you’ve ever seen the photos of Marc working out topless at the gym you’ll know he’s insanely hench. (If you don’t know what ‘hench’ means neither did I until a few days back) This kind of physical attention allows the decent Marquez brother to recover and rebound faster than any other rider.
Furthermore his current diplodocus episode is not nearly as bad as in 2011 when he lost the Moto2 championship to the now test-schnitzel Stefan Bradl.
Maybe Marc just doesn’t like the Argentinians – like the rest of us.
Troublesome
Like being accidentally stuck in a lift with Alberto Puig this episode looks like being something that could haunt poor Marc for a very long time. Possibly forever.
In the scheme of the Spaniard’s calamitous past 24 months this setback doesn’t seem as significant as some of his other injuries. However since 2020 we will have had 35 races including Argentina – and Marquez will have missed 19 of them through injury. That’s a sick-rate that would even shock Franco Morbidelli.
Despite this the ex-champion still adopts the ‘push it until you fall off in a heap with Rossi fans cheering’ technique at every round. Once upon a pre-covid time this was fine but now with his carcass becoming ever more feeble is a constantly injured Marquez who routinely skips races set to be the normal?
Terminal
Like being accidentally stuck in a lift with Alberto Puig this episode looks like being something that signals the end of the good life he once knew.
Sadly folks this could be the end.
What has Marc got to prove? We all know how good he was. How feared he was. And how amazing his track craft was. Does he really need to risk his eye falling out again or not being able to flush the toilet without emergency surgery and the air ambulance?
Unless you ask a Rossi fan Marc Marquez has absolutely nothing left to prove. Maybe this final setback, knowing his 2022 championship is already probably over, will be the one that makes him see sense – albeit rather blurry.
It’s not like he owes Honda – they already have their eyes on Pedrosa Acosta to replace him and have built a bike that doesn’t suit him anymore. Why not retire now and go out like a hero – not like a bitter Jorge Lorenzo?