The eight-time world champion lost control under braking for the Turn 3 hairpin on 🧸lap 3, forcing him to release the brake.

Hoping to upright his Repsol Honda and run wide, Marquez instead veered towards the apex, hitting the back of Jorge Martin and then꧒ slammin𝓀g into the side of Oliveira.

The RNF Aprilia rider, who had delighted his home fans by taking the early lead before settling into second behind eventual winner Francesco Bagnaia,🔯 took the brunt of the impact on his upper right leg and was in ob🉐vious pain at the side of the track.

Fortunately, X-rays didn’t show any fractures, but Martin fears he has a broken toe and possib♔le ankle damage while Marquez was wearing ꦫa cast on his right arm when he explained the incident.

The #93 fractured a bone in his hand, requiring surgery, meaning he will mi༺ss next weekend's Argenti🗹na MotoGP.

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Before his surgery, Marquez said: “Honestly speaking, I am not worried about Argentina. Today, the most important is that Miguel is okay. Because I did a big mistake on Turn [3], in the first part, 💯and this created everything.

“I brake🍸d and had a massive lock with the front tyre. That meant that I released the brakes. My intention was to go to the left side. But the bike stayed on a lean and I couldn’t avo🍬id going to the right side.

“I was able to avoid Martin but 🅘couldn’t avoid Miguel. I was very wo🌠rried for him because the contact was big.

“I already said it personally - but I want to say ♉sorry to him, to his team, to the Portuguese fans. I have been penalised for that mistake with a double long lap penalty, that I completely, completely agree.

“But apart from that, I have a few injuries - my hand, my knee. We need to check. Let’s see. At the moment it’s not the most 🍬important, my situation.”

Marquez c🌼onfirmed he had been using the brakes to make up for ༺time lost due to a lack of drive grip out of the corners but insisted he had been ‘calm’ and trying to overtake Martin or Oliveira when the incident occurred.

“As you saw yest🅘erday, the only way to do the lap time is on the brakes. And we are braking🌺 so late,” he said. “If you don’t brake late like this, you finish 10th, 11th, 12th.

“But I wasn’t attacking. Because we were not riding very very fast. I knew the race was long. I chose the medium rear tyre for the long distance. I was thinking t🍸o use the soft rear and attack in the beginning but I thought ‘🅘okay I will keep calm’. And I was calm.

“On the𝄹 first lap in that turn, I went wide alone because also I had a small lock. It was [something] that maybe also happened in the test but I was riding alone. This time unlucky for me, and especially Miguel, when I released the brakes the bike was going inside.”

'I’ve been penalised and I deserve it'

Marquez was given a double long lap penalty to be served in Argentin😼a - but he will now miss that race anyway, due to injury. The penalty is not carried over into the next race.

🅘Marquez added: “Of course,꧋ you never want to have these kinds of incidents. But it’s true that right now when we have a small mistake on the brakes - a lock or some movement - it is so easy to increase the speed, especially in the tight corners.

“Recently we saw this at Phillip Isl𒈔and [2022] for𝓰 example. With Fabio Quartararo, but he was able to avoid. And my brother, who was not able to avoid Miller.

“We are braki🉐ng so late. But even like this I was able to control during all weekend and you never want to crash and I don’t want to finis𒉰h a race like this. But maybe that hard option in the front was not ready or something.

“But if you see I went out from Turn 1 and 2 and I was far from them. I was not even close and 🌜not thinking to overtake. So you can explain many things but in the end, it’s my mﷺistake which caused the crash of another rider.

"So I’ve been penalised and I deserve it.”

The FIM Stewards handed Marquez the double long lap for 'being overl🥃y aggressive and causing a crash. This... is considered irresponsible riding causing a danger to other competitors.'

Howev🅷er, some riders, including Martin and Aprilia’s Aleix Espar༺garo, felt Marquez should have been given a harsher penalty.

“In the rules briefing on Thursday, it was that penalty,” Marquez said. “If you overtake and create a dangerous situation and you cr💫eate a crash of another rider it’s a double long lap, for the first time. Then second time I think it’s a pit lane start. And third time is a ride through.

“So by the rules𓄧 which they explained, it’s a double long lap penalty. But if the rules say heavier, I would accep♓t because it was my mistake. But the rules say that the penalty is [a double long lap].”