MotoGP News
Date:
31/May/2013
One place a MotoGP rider doesn’t want to fall is flat out along
the 210mph home straight at the Mugello circuit in Italy.
But that’s exactly what happened to rookie star Marc Marquez
during Friday free practice.
Marquez, 20, lost control of his Repsol Honda just as he
touched the brakes for turn one, sending him off the circuit and towards the
concrete trackside wall.
"Just after the hill on the straight I grabbed for the
brakes but I lost the front,” said Marquez. “I tried to save it but the bike
was pulling me towards the wall so I jumped from the bike to avoid hitting it.”
It was a huge accident, but could have been much worse.
Marquez avoided becoming tangled with his bike, or hitting
the wall, but the sheer speed of the accident left him with numerous relatively
minor injuries. The hard riding Spaniard was taken to a waiting ambulance on a
stretcher before being transferred to the medical centre.
“I hit my chin hard and strained my neck quite badly, I also
have some contusions to my right shoulder, arm and leg but other than that I'm
ok,” said the Spaniard. “Thanks to all the medical team that were quickly on
the scene to assist me. Now I need to rest and see how I feel later tonight and
in the morning."
Marquez starts round five a close second in the World
Championship behind team-mate Dani Pedrosa and having finished on the podium in
all the races so far this year, including victory in Austin.
With Marquez sidelined and Pedrosa struggling for grip,
Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Cal Crutchlow filled the top
three places in Friday practice.
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