The six-time MotoGP champion, who has produced three standout moments since his return - pole at Motegi, a podium at Phillip Island and a front row at Sepang when Honda were in deep trouble - has been much closer to the Marquez we saw prior to suffering his right shoulder injury at Jerez in 2020.&nb𒁃sp;

Marquez looked set to miss out on Q2 during qualifying at Sepang before a brilliant lap on his own saw him move ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller and claim second. 

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The Repsol Honda rider then replicated that effort just minutes later in Q2 despite seeing series leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia ౠcrash out of qualifying directly in front of him. 

Although his race pace wasn’t enough to chal൲lenge for the podium, Marquez held on for a very solid seventh place finish.

Speaking about his physical condition with just one round of the year to go, Marquez added: "I’m very happy about my physical condition. Step-by-step I feel better and better, step-by-step I can play more with the bike and step-by-step I can 🎀better absorb the problems of 🐭the bike. 

"This was something that in the last two years I was not🌜 able to do. About this I’m very𒈔, very happy."

Right arm still not working ‘perfectly’ for Marquez after MotoGP return

Despite the positive signs, Marquez has conc🌟eded that he remainsꦡ some ways away from reaching the level he wants and needs in order to be competitive on a consistent basis.

Marquez, who was seen pulling all types of shapes on the bike during last weekend’s quali🔥fying in order to achieve the position he did, joked he wanted to see how his body position looked before going on to s♔ay his body balance ‘is not perfect’ at present.

"I don’t know! I wanna see these photos," laughed Marquez. "But still I don’t have the good power. The muscle is still not working in the best way on the right arm🦋. 

"Still it’s not working perfectly. This winter get the maximum of this arm but in the hard brake points still I need to fin༒d the way to have [the correct] body balance. 

"Still my body balance is not the perfect one and it’s still a job we need to do this wint⛎er."