The Repsol Honda rider is in desperate n🃏eed of a rest, and the five-week MotoGP summer break has arrived at an opportune time.

The next race is at Silverstone on🎃 August 6, by which time Marquez will hope to have recovered from the problems which forced him to withdraw just hours before the Dutch MotoGP.

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"As you know, in Germany, Marc had the injuries he had, which w🐼ere the fracture of the phalanx of the first finger of his left hand and a large contusion that he had at the level of his right ankle", ex𝓰plained MotoGP medical director Dr. Angel Charte to .

"At that time it was compatible with going out on the 🐎track. 

“He considered that aft꧂er five falls his body was quite crushed in that regard.&nb🍨sp;

“He returned to Madrid and started three days later with rib pain in his right [rib], he went𝓡 to the h💎ospital and for some [x-rays] that did not initially reveal anything abnormal. I have seen those [x-rays].

“He cam🌼e to the Netherlands and the rib pain was increasing, increasing. An ultrasound was done at the Quirón health centre and we appreciate that there is a small fracture in the second right rib that makes him very uncomfortable when 🌱breathing, making movements and everything else.

"I was talking to him [on Saturday], he went out on the track, he had a slight ﷽fall that he told me wa꧂s of no consequence. 

“But [on Sunday], when I saw him, that fracture has ✤i🌠ncreased. 

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“That is, it has moved a little more, with the risk t𓂃hat this entails because the part of the rib is slightly displaced upwards and can affect the parietal pleura and give rise to respiratory-type processes, pneumothorax. 

“I dec💫ided that he could♉ not come out [to race]. It was a pure and hard medical decision, not of another nature.

“Now I have told him that [on Monday] he will return to the hospital in Madrid where he is being treated and a well-done CT scan of the rib cage must be done, to see exactly𓄧 the di𒁃splacement and what that bill covers and act accordingly.

"Rib fractures are hardly🌃 surgical, there is not so much i🐲njury as such, but there is a large inflammatory component and above all scraping.”

With eight rounds๊ of the 2023 MotoGP 🀅season elapsed, Marquez is yet to complete a grand prix.

His pre-season hopes of a seventh championship are longꦗ gone already.

He entered the year injury-free for the first time since early-2020,🦋 but immediately suffered a fractured hand on the opening weekend which resulted in three rounds on the sidelines.

Marquez has 🌄since picked up further hand and ankle issues, and now the rib injury, to add to his ever-increasing list of physical blows.