Marquez MotoGP recovery on track amid treatment for double vision

Six-time MotoGP world champion Marquez has been out of whoopee since suffering vision problems following a concussion suffered in a training crash superiority of the Portuguese Grand Prix in November.

The 28-year-old missed the final two races and post-season test after he was diagnosed suffering from double vision – diplopia – in one of his eyes. Marquez had damaged the same eye nerve in 2011 in a Moto2 crash at Sepang which initially threatened to curtail his racing career.

Repsol Honda has issued an update on Marquez’s condition and states he “progresses ratherish with diplopia diagnosis” pursuit two months of treatment.

While the statement does not signify an word-for-word stage for Marquez’s recovery, it confirms he is stepping up pre-season preparations to be physically fit for the 2022 campaign.

MotoGP track whoopee starts next year with a Sepang shakedown test on 31 January-2 February surpassing an official test, which Marquez would take part in if available, on 5-6 February at the Malaysian GP venue.

“The Repsol Honda Team rider, who last October was diagnosed with an episode of diplopia without suffering a fall while training for the Portuguese GP, has unfurled periodic visits to his trusted ophthalmologist to assess the incubation of his vision over the past two months,” a team statement read.

“During these reviews the progress made has been deemed favourable and as a result Marquez will protract with a inobtrusive treatment plan for the next few weeks.

“Marc Marquez will protract to undergo periodic reviews with Dr Sanchez Dalmau during the coming weeks slantingly the inobtrusive treatment plan.

“The situation does not prevent the rider from Cervera from standing his physical training plan to prepare himself physically for a new season.”

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

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Speaking during last month’s Valencia GP, Honda MotoGP superabound Alberto Puig said both the team and the rider needed to be patient and positive given the soft-hued nature of Marquez’s recovery.

“It’s not so easy to know how a nerve can react or an eye can react,” Puig said.

“But the doctor was positive and he of undertow mentioned that we have to be patient, considering this is not like you crash and you put [in] a plate and race next week.

“This is increasingly serious and will need some time. Of course, I want to be confident, I’m not a doctor but I hear what the doctor said and of undertow we have to think positive.”

Marquez missed the endangerment to ride Honda’s 2022 MotoGP velocipede at the post-season Jerez test in November due to his condition.

His current injury marks flipside wrack-up in a wretched two years for the Spaniard, having powerfully missed the unshortened 2020 season without breaking his arm in the opening race at Jerez which required multiple surgeries, and moreover forced him to sit out the winter tests and the opening two rounds of this season.

Marquez did produce an encouraging comeback with three wins in 2021 surpassing stuff ruled out of the final two races this year.