Marc Marquez considering MotoGP race return this weekend?

Marc Marquez is reported to be seriously considering a return to racing action at this weekend’s Andalucia MotoGP just three days after he underwent surgery for his fractured arm.

Reports in the Spanish El Periodico de Catalunya newspaper – and shared by the official MotoGP website - state Marquez isn’t fully ruling out getting back on the Repsol Honda, though the team itself has previously stated it would enter only a single bike for Alex Marquez.

The six-time MotoGP World Champion is thought to have been boosted by the news he has avoided radial nerve damage, which could have necessitated a longer rehabilitation stint, as well as complicate matters should he fall again.

Such a return would be a huge turnaround for a rider that was facing multiple events out initially as doctors worked to stablilise the fracture – sustained in a crash late on in the Sunday’s Spanish MotoGP - but surgery performed by Dr Xavier Mir at the Dexeus Hospital in Barcelona has raised expectations of relatively minimal impact to his 2020 MotoGP title aspirations.

Even so, Dr. Mir himself says the plans remains to focus on a return for round three in Brno, with Marquez already undergoing recovery training to rebuild his strength.

“He’s feeling better than expected because we initially had some concerns about an injury to the radial nerve, which quite common when the humerus is injured like this,” Dr. Mir told the MotoGP website. “The truth is the nerve was very close to being damaged, but it wasn’t injured.

“This allowed us to do an open reduction and internal fixation of a latest generation titanium plate to the right humerus that allows him to start his recovery from today.

“He started with a cold therapy with a machine that reduces the hematoma and, when the machine is not connected he is doing recovery work on the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.

“The truth is that, with no affectation to radial nerve, the door is only half opened to a return at Brno. But still, there remains the possibility of him riding there.

“He is OK, upbeat, as always, with aims of competing with aims to trying to fight for this World Championship”