Marc Marquez could not participate in the Moto GP Grand Prix of Indonesia. The Spanish pilot suffered a very violent fall a few hours before the race and had to be evacuated by helicopter to carry out examinations.
Marc Marquez had a very complicated weekend on the Mandalika track. After a first fall on Friday during practice, then two more the next day during qualifying, the six-time world champion again found himself on the ground in turn 7 after losing control of the rear of his bike in a ” highside” at the end of the “warm-up”.
Incredible highside by Marc Marquez!
The Spaniard loses control of his motorcycle and climbs almost a meter off the ground
He is currently going to the hospital for a check-up. #IndonesianGP pic.twitter.com/7OdD7XHhuZ
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If he got up on his own, he was very dizzy after this terrible fall at nearly 180 km / h and was evacuated by helicopter for additional examinations, in accordance with the protocol. Despite the violence of the fall, nothing was broken, but he was the victim of a “significant concussion”. And he was logically declared unfit after examinations at the local hospital, by the staff and the doctors of the circuit, to participate in the race.
“It wouldn’t have been a very safe idea to run him,” said Honda sporting director Alberto Puig. And without the Spaniard, who had qualified in the 14and place, the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira won on a wet track and at the end of a Grand Prix delayed by one hour because of heavy rain in front of the French Fabio Quartararo and Johann Zarco.