The Bezzecchi case: a hero to some, a madman to others

Marco Bezzecchi Marked at Indonesian GP Jorge Lorenzo This is a complete rule, and the fact is that the MotoGP crown at stake leads to heroic decisions and actions for some, and irresponsible ones for others. It’s connected.But if the medical orders give the OK, as in both cases, and in other cases where it was completely wrong, then the case is Marc Marquez Jerez 2020 sets the wheels in motion.

Last Saturday, during a regular training session at Valentino Rossi’s motor farm in Tavullia. flame He fell off his bike on a dirt track and broke his right collarbone. He underwent surgery on Sunday morning and began his recovery. Despite his mother’s opinion and the reluctance of his great boss Valentino Rossi, he took the decision to travel on Wednesday and will arrive at the Mandalika circuit at 7am this Friday morning, completing a medical first thing in the morning. Passed the check. inspection. He then hit the track for FP1 at 10:50am.

And to further highlight his feat, ‘Bez’ fell in Turn 1 at around 150km/h, but luckily he was able to crawl out cleanly without hitting his shoulder, bending a plate or one of the screws. was avoided. He was unafraid and very protective of himself, once joking: “I lost my ass trying to protect his arm. Luckily I got into the gravel and nothing happened.” . He then took on a ‘time attack’ in practice and won, finishing in 3rd place.

What was even more reckless was that Jorge Lorenzo At Assen in 2013, he crashed in FP2 and broke his left collarbone. He flew to Barcelona for surgery and finished fifth in the race 35 hours later. Jorge himself described it years later as “the biggest nonsense in history”.

Marc Marquez“Hopefully,” he said, even calling his move to return four days early after his first humerus surgery on his right arm in 2020 a failure and a major failure in his sports career. did. , Hero, “If it doesn’t work, it’s crazy. This is how it works, but it’s always on the edge, and I live with it.”

“He knows how to do it, he’s willing and he’s a risk taker. This morning he already had a bad fall where the screw may have clicked and he had to have surgery again. I know from experience that it’s confusing, but Marquez said to me, “This incident was caused by stress, not a fall.I’ve never had a broken clavicle, but his “I smelled it for the sake of it. It’s courage.”