Marc Marquez withdraws from the 2023 Dutch MotoGP at Assen

Marc Marquez withdraws from today's Dutch MotoGP at Assen due to 'aggravated injuries' from the Sachsenring.
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"Marc Marquez will sit out th🔯e Grand Prix at the TT Circuit Assen after being declared unfit as a result of the injuries sustained at the German GP ꦐlast week, which have been aggravated further in Assen," read a Sunday morning statement from Repsol Honda.

Following last weekend's punishin🅘g five falls, which eventually prompted his exit from the German GP, Marquez has been on subdued form at Assen.

The Spanish star finished just 17th, wher♋e he had qualified, in Saturday's Sprint race as he continued to struggle with pain from a rib fracture.

Marquez posted on Twitter: "As you know, I havဣe not arrived at Assen at 100% physically. In addition to the sprain and the finger fracture, there is a fractured rib that has been causing💙 me a lot of pain.

"I woke up this 🍷morning with a lot of pain and, after a check-up, we hav🧜e decided together with the medical team, not to race today to prevent it from getting worse and be able to recover the following weeks."

Marquez's eꦑxit from the Dutch TT means he will go into the summer break having failed to finish any of the eight grand prix races so far tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhis season.

The eight-time world champion crashed out of Portimao, Le Mans and Mugello, missed the Termas, COTA, Jerez weekends entirely (due to the thumb fracture in Portimao) and has now withd꧅rawn from the Sunday races at Sachsenring and Assen.

Marquez began the season on pole in Portimao, where he also took third in the Sprint race, but the deficiencies of the 'unpredictable' RC213V have become 💧increasingly clear with Marquez, team-mate Joan Mir and COTA winner Alex Rins all sidelined by injuries.

"[You] don't ha⛦ve any warning," stand-in team-mate ൲Iker Lecuona said yesterday. "The bike is critical and sometimes you don't have time to do nothing [to save it] because you don't feel nothing.”

Marquez, who has not won a MotoGP race since Misano 2021, now has until the British Grand Prix at Silverstone i😼n early August to regain꧑ fitness.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Mar💛quez’s injury issues.

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