German MotoGP: Marc Marquez: 'No physical limitations this weekend'

Marc Mꦓarquez made quite a statement on the eve of the Ge🦋rman MotoGP by declaring that he doesn't expect to face any serious physical limitations with his healing arm and shoulder this weekend.
That's because the Sachsenring - where Marquez has been unbeaten since 2009 - conta🐲ins only three of the right-hand corners where he currently struggles most.
The other nine turns are all left-handers,༺ where Marquez not only feels more physically comfortable but has always preferred due to his dirt-track training.
"Honestly speaking maybe this weekend will be the weekend that I feel better with the shoulder and with the arm, I think and I hope there will be no limitation in this circuit, because we hav𓆉e left corners and only 3 right corners, which is where I have the limitation and where I feel worse," Marquez said.
"So we 🍒can say that this will be the first weekend withou𝓡t physical limitations.
"Obviously, you cannot pretend to arrive here and change completely the situation. But about the physical side, I am confident we🐭 will be much better than other circuits, and then ജlet's see, let's see where we can arrive with less physical limitations."
Marquez arrives in Sachsenring having crashed out of the last three races, but then receiving a boost by managing 87 laps at the Barcelona test, his firs𓄧t day of MotoGP riding outside of a race weekend since Ju🧸ly 2020.
"The Barcelona test was so important. It was important for Honda, but it was im༺portant for me," Marquez said. "It was the first time that I was able to ride a bike without cameras, without pressure, without depending on the lap times.
"I was just riding, I was trying many things on the bike. It's ജtrue that we tried man🀅y things for Honda for the information, but also I tried many things on my side, and it was good.
"It's true that the next two days I was complete destroyed, but even then I was able to make another step, that I was able on Friday to ride with a flat track bike in a good mode, so step by step my body feels more ready. But the most important thing was that the test in Montmelo, I🎐 was happy after Monday."
After his latest race exit, in Barcelona, Marquez had explained t🍸hat the Honda lack rear grip on both corner entry and exit, making hard to stop the 💃bike under braking and causing them to lose ground in acceleration.
It sounded very similar to the description given by Cal Crut💞chlow last season, when the Englishman gave a detailed description of the problems he believed could be traced back to a change in engine design for ꧋2020.
If the root cause of Honda's ongoing difficulties is indeed the increase in (crankshaft) inertia then, due to the technical 💮freeze, they are unable to do anything about it until 2022.
"Always I try to evaluate Honda situation, it's not the best one," said Marquez. "Even last year they struggled a lot, looks like this year we arᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe struggling even more.
"But then I always try to analyse the situati♐on inside my box. And inside my box, it's true that I am not helping the bike, and at the moment, the 𒁃bike is not helping me. So both sides are not on a good level, this creates that the results are difficult to achieve.
"But anyway, I will try to improve my side during the season, I know that Honda HRC, and all my team together we are working to improve the performance of the bike, and then together, try to increase our level and try to arrive at the end of the season with a good package and start the 2022 preseason with 🐬something that we feel is competiti🎉ve."
Honda is without a podium this se💖ason and hasn't won a race since Marquez signed off his eighth world championship with victory in 🅠the 2019 Valencia finale.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and g♔o. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.