Honda boss’ bleak outlook: “Marc Marquez bruised and battered, obviously not happy”
A physic♌ally compromised Marquez was 19th fastest and a fall ended his drab Friday practice at the Dutch MotoGP.
He cut a deflated and negative figure when he ♕trudged back 🐓to his box.
Honda’s star man Marquez limped to Assen despite five crashes last weekend at the Sachsenring, a pun📖ishing period which forced him to withdraw from the grand prix and admit “I am not ready”.
His team manager Puig said about Marquez’s condition: “Obviously not happy. “Obviously bruiﷺsed and battered.
“Not in his best physical condition. He’s had a lot of impa💦cts, he crashed a lot in𓃲 Germany.
“There 🐟is not one rider in the planet who is happy crashing.
“He understan꧒ds clearly that the bike is not p🌳erforming how he needs.
“On the other haꦰndꦦ, he’s a champion and he’s pushing. That’s why he is crashing.
“He never gives up, he never accepts it.
“Now, it’s a ti🙈me where it’s be🅘coming quite serious. He must take it easy.
“Here in Assen he is affected by the ribs and the 🅠ankle, so we’ll see how he does.
“Overall, 🗹we understand he is not happy. We respect him💖.”
The si🧔x-time MotoGP 💯champion’s future at Honda will remain under the microscope while his bike remains below-par.
"If I’m here it’s because my compromise with Honda is the maximum,” he said at Assen.&nb🧔sp;
“I want to work with them to improve the future and to improve our project.&nbꦯsp;
"I’m here to work with them. At the moment, Of course I’m hಞere to work with them and as I say, working with them means next year’s project.&n💖bsp;
"T♑his year will not change life too much. The compromise is maximum."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a deca♋de covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
