Marc Marquez has not yet been able to circle a date in red on the calendar.
Despite this, the Spanish champion, who has been stopped since July 19, 2020 due to the Jerez accident, remains "optimistic, because I see continuous progress. I am increasing my physical work and the important thing is that I feel better every week. as soon as possible, but I still don't know when ".
Marquez talked about his future after a long silence, on the occasion of the streaming presentation of the Honda RC213V of the Repsol official team that will participate in the MotoGP world championship, with Pol Espargaro as teammate.
Under the short-sleeved T-shirt with the colors of the main sponsor you could see the scar left by the three operations on his right humerus, fractured in the fall last summer that marked the bad season of the Japanese brand.
Seven months after Marquez's ordeal it still isn't over.
Back on the bike a few days after the first operation, he seems to have learned his lesson when he says "now I have to follow the doctors' instructions and feel the sensations of my body".
Just as he is aware that returning to the track will not be painless, nor will he immediately see him as the protagonist: "The main goal is usually to fight to win the title. But 2021 is totally different. My target will be to get back on the bike and have fun. . Then, step by step, I will think about getting back as fast as I was before the injury. After a year without racing I cannot claim to be the Marc ever. It is the first time in my career that I have not driven for so long. When I get on the bike I will not be 100%. One thing is the bone, another is the musculature. The misfortune required that after the rupture of the plate there was an infection, otherwise I would have already recovered ".
He dreams of a return "in style", but realizes that "it will not be like this" and that he will have to suffer again: "We'll see if it will take a race or two, or half a season to be the same as before".
For now it is certain that he will not be at the tests in Qatar on March 6-7: "The doctors excluded him and I don't feel like it either.
We will do a further check in mid-March, at which point we will see if I can get to Qatar 1 . If I don't make it, I'll move the target to Qatar 2 (4 April, ed) and gradually onto the next race ".