The Spaniard’s insatiable desire for success means that, in his own words, ‘168澳洲幸﷽运5官方开奖结果历史:As a rider on the track,ꦆ I’m a bastard!’

M😼arquez certainly isn’t unique in that respe🌞ct and taking-no-prisoners usually goes with the territory of being a multiple MotoGP champion.

But it meant Marquez was caught a little by surprise when, shortly after announcing he🃏 would undergo a fourth operation on his long-suffering right arm, a succession of rivals offered gestures of support during the slowdown 💝lap at Mugello. 

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“That was a really nice and emotional lap, because you feel the respect of most of the riders and this was great,” Marquez, who had finished the race in tenth plac🦄e, recalled at the end of the season.

“We all know the risks we are taking when we ride bikes. And with any operation, but especially🐓 if i⭕t's the fourth time, you never know what the outcome will be.

“To some opponents, maybe you don't wish the best [results] but you would never wish for an injury. Because an injury means not only your professional life changes, but alಞso your personal life.

“With some rider⭕s you already [have] respect because you have a good relati⛄onship, but from some others [the Mugello slowdown lap] was a surprise.”

‘I feel very sad for Marc’

Among those to wish Marquez all the best for his upcoming operation were Yamaha’s world championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and Aprilia’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro.

“Whatever he feels is the besꦡt choice, I will support him, because the last two years were a really tough situation for him,” Quartararo said.

Countryman Espargaro revealed he had been to&nbs꧂p;visit Marquez after the surgery announcement.

“I feel very sad for Marc. I just came♒ from his motorhome. I feel very bad, personally. I mean, he’s the strongest one here psychologically but there is a limit [for everyone]. It’s unbelievable. C🐠razy. I’m very sorry for him."

Espargaro, who would fight for the ✃world title until the penultimate round, add⭕ed that he could see Marquez was still struggling with the arm he had originally fractured at Jerez in 2020.

“He was not putting weight on the front. He was sitting back. He was not riding as Marc and this was not because of the bike,” Espargaro said. “He was not riding as normal, for me꧟. Following him on track, he was not doing the same things.

“[But] Marc 🅰said to me the doctors in America are at such a high level with technology and he believes it’s going to be fine.”

Fortuna꧙tely, Marquez’s bone realignment surgery in the US proved a success and, after missing six rounds, the #93 began to rediscover his old style during thꦇe closing stages of the season.

Marquez took the struggling RCV to fro🌺nt-row starts in four of the last five rounds plus his only p☂odium of the season at Phillip Island, where he was just 0.186s behind winner Alex Rins.