Hutchy
£ Marc Márquez celebrates
at the Moto GP of Catalunya
in Barcelona, Spain on the
15th June 2014
You’ve been through a life-changing
injury. Tell us a bit about that. A lot
of people, unless they’ve read your
book, wouldn’t really understand
the depths that you went had to go
through.
Yeah, it’s hard to go into briefly
because 30 operations over three
years take a lot to go into, but just the
complications of it with it being such
a high-speed impact, from the very
start it created a lot of problems rather
than just a broken tibia or fibula. There
was a lot of in and out of hospital and
a lot of trauma to go through. It was a
pretty crap old time.
Were you considering the option
that your career was over?
Whenever it got to the lowest point
did you think that was it?
I never considered not coming back to
racing. The plan was always to come
back to racing. I always tried to believe
that I could get back to the top again.
There were times, obviously, when I
was not in a great position and I got to
watch racing. I went to watch the TT
in 2011 and 2013. I had a frame on my
leg and sat and watched from the side
of the track and just thought, there’s
absolutely no way I’m going to be able
to do that again. But I did still have to
think, no, I will be able to, and try to
turn it around.
It’s crazy to watch it when you’ve got
an injury and the signals of pain are
getting sent to your brain saying that
you can’t do it again. But once it all
goes away; you don’t forget how to
ride. You’ve just got to work hard and
get your confidence back up. It takes
time, but it comes back. u
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