Marquez withdrew from the German MotoGP after a fifth fall of the weekend in the warm-up, breaking a finger and shi𝔍ning a light on the extent of his struggles with his Honda.

The Repsol Honda ride🐠r has not completed a grand prix this season yet, has missed three rounds due to a previous injury, and is set to feature at next weekend’s Dutch MotoGP under a dark cloud.

"The Honda has really become a bike, it was already critical a couple of years ago, but it has become a more critical bike✃,” Marquez’s ex-teammate and three-tim🌠e MotoGP champion Lorenzo told . 

“A bike that throws the riders basically or makes it so that the riders can't save m🦹ost ♎of the falls.

"I think that not even Marc in his worst nightmares imagined a weekend like this, with five 🍌crashes, so many bad feelings. 

“You have to remember that in bad y꧂ears, when Marc came to a circuit like Austin or Sachsenring he always gave something more and got victories.

“𝔍But this year, from the beginning, he had tremendous difficulties. Some tremendous scares. 

“And on top of that, it has gotten worse over the weekend💦⛄. It has gotten worse and worse.

“And it really has been one of the worst weekends that Marc has ever had. And it's a weekend that h♔urts a lot. 

“He's sad, he looks sad. You can see him answer🐻ing the questions without really wanting to answer. 

“And really psychologically i𒁏t will be a litmus test for Marc.

“𒉰I think it is a moment that Marc has never experienced. He has experienced delicate moments in the last two or three years with the issue of the arm on a physical level. 

“But 🍸now it comes together that he is experiencing many falls and𝔍 physical consequences.

"In general,✨ he is physically fine. He has returned to good health, but he finds himself with the most delic🉐ate Honda in recent times and further away from the rivals.

“I think that things from 𓂃Germany to the Netherlands will not change much physically, it will surely improve a bit because the body will reduce inflammation from the vari🐬ous blows it has accumulated this weekend.

"But he won't get much better at Asಌsen. But he's going to have a few days to reflect, think... 

“And get to a new circui𒈔t that might make him feel better.

"Because in the end a lot of bad feelings have been accumulating in three days. And that together h🅷as caused him to say that it's no🐼t worth it.”

Lorenzo hims𒀰elf became well-known for riding with injuries, notably in Le Mans in 2008 when he arrived with two broken ankles.

“In motorcycling, sometim꧟es you get on and do heroics. I arrived at Le Mans and I finished second, I couldn't walk. I was on crutches.

"Then in Mugello I fell again and in Montmeló on Friday also doing a lot of flips and blows to the head. In fact, I didn't remಞember anything.

“🌠And then💯 the fact of retiring comes to mind a lot, you think it's not worth continuing in this sport. 

“But then when you let the days go by, you cool down a bit, you s🥂ee things in a difꦑferent perspective.

"You see it with more optimism.”

Lorenzo returned fro﷽m his own tumultuous period at the 2008 British MotoGP but remembers being cautious.

"I went with a lot of concern. I got a littl🍌e afraid of the bike.&𒆙nbsp;

“But little by little I was building confidence with the bike thꦬat I had lo🌠st.

"I don't know if Marc is in the same situation, in the same situation of sayiജng: 'Be careful, if I continue ﷽at this rate of hard falls I can really hurt myself again'.”