BARCELONA, 27 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) will not compete in the next Argentine Grand Prix, the second round of the World Championship, after undergoing emergency surgery on a fractured thumb bone in his right hand, suffered during his fall in the race inaugural Portimao.
“Upon returning to Spain to undergo further check-ups, Marc Márquez was diagnosed with a displaced intra-articular fracture of the base of the first metacarpal of the thumb of his right hand. The Repsol Honda team rider immediately underwent surgery,” he explained. the team.
The operation took place at the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid, under the responsibility of Dr. Ignacio Roger de Oña at the head of a team made up of Drs. Samuel Antuña and Andrea García Villanueva.
“The surgery consisted of a closed reduction of the fracture and its internal fixation with two screws, and it was uneventful,” the Repsol Honda Team reported.
After this intervention, the team and Marc Márquez himself decided not to participate in the test in Argentina next weekend. “Márquez will miss the next round of the World Championship to fully focus on his recovery and reach the next appointments in the best possible conditions,” they announced.
A test, that of Argentina, for which Márquez had received a sanction of a double ‘long lap’ after the incident in which he touched Jorge Martín (Ducati) and knocked the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia) to the ground, in the curve 3 of the Portimao track.