Marquez breaks leg!
Not at warp speed on a MotoGP bike, but instead on a dirt bike during a training session. And he's not the first rider to go down that path...World champion Marc Marquez has broken his right fibula during a dirt track training session in Spain on February 19, and will be unable to ride at next week’s second 2014 MotoGP test session at Sepang.
The accident occurred in Lleida, west of Barcelona and close to Marquez’s home town of Cervera. The rookie premier class title winner of 2013, who on February 17 had celebrated his 21st birthday, was immediately taken to hospital where he was treated by Dr. Xavier Mir for a spiral fracture of the distal third of his right fibula (bone between knee and ankle).
There is no ligament damage or dislocation, and his doctor said he will take 3-4 weeks to recover.
Marquez has already started rehabilitation with magnetic therapy. He will remain non-weight bearing for two weeks, which means he will also possibly a test session at Phillip Island, which will be held the week after the Sepang test.
Full recovery is expected for the season-opening Qatar MotoGP race on March 23.
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