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Marc Marquez has revealed the one aspect of his shoulder injury recovery that he is still having difficulties with ahead of the upcoming MotoGP season.
After winning his seventh MotoGP title at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, Marc Marquez sustained a broken collarbone at the following race weekend in Indonesia, which subsequently ruled him out of the rest of the season.
The Spaniard also ended up missing out on MotoGP’s post-season test in Valencia to focus on his recovery, which he has now revealed is still ongoing.
The biggest concern about Marquez’s injury, as it happened, was the fact that the broken collarbone was on the same arm as the previous shoulder injury that saw him go through hell for three consecutive seasons.
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During Ducati’s season-launch event for the upcoming MotoGP campaign, Marquez was asked about his current sentiments towards his fitness and whether he is 100% ready to start competing on race weekends yet.
The Spaniard detailed how, while he isn’t back at the top of his game yet, he is getting there, before detailing one aspect that he is having difficulties with.
“The endurability,” he said. “I can ride very well at a normal level for one day, but then the second day, it drops a lot. This means that we need to keep going and try to work on that over a long distance.
“I mean, I already predicted that in Malaysia, on the first day, it would feel super good. Malaysia is a difficult test, but what I feel is the most difficult thing to control is that, from the first day to the second one.
“If I do two days in a row at the gym, the second day, I cannot perform in a good way. This was something that I achieved last year, and something that I was doing in a good way.
“We have a month and a half, and I think we’re in a good way. But to ride a bike one single day, I’m already at my normal level.”
During the same presser, Marquez highlighted that he was only thinking about winning upon his return to racing action. As always with the Ant of Cervera, he is hungry as ever to retain his world title.
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Despite the injury, Marc Marquez asserts that he hasn’t lost his speed
Of course, the follow-up question that was posed to the reigning world champion related to whether or not he has lost some performance following yet another injury to his right arm.
From the mouth of Marquez, he doesn’t believe so at all. He answered, “The speed you have, you never lose. In the first days, it was super stiff, and I didn’t have the speed over a long distance, but over a single lap, I had it.
“Now, step by step, I start to have the speed. This is what I understood with the last injury: if I feel good physically, the speed is there.
“For that reason, I was not worried about missing the Valencia test, I was not worried about missing the Valencia race, because my weak point is my physical side. So, if I take care of this, the speed is there.”
Marquez has always cited his Gresini move as a make-or-break transfer for the future of his MotoGP career. If he simply didn’t have the pace anymore on race-winning machinery, then he would have retired.
Luckily for him, and unluckily for everyone else on the grid, the Spaniard still has what it takes, and he continues to do so.
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