Many MotoGP fans were dubious about Marc Márquez’s switch from factory Honda rider to independent-team Ducati rider for 2024. The sixtimes MotoGP king hasn’t won the title since 2019, struggling through the last four seasons with a right-arm injury sustained at the start of the 2020 MotoGP championship. He’s past his best, said the doubters.
Four operations followed, including a humeral osteotomy, which involved surgeons cutting the humerus in two, rotating the lower part 30 degrees and plating it back together.
Surely Márquez was done? Surely even his fiery determination would be quenched by
