The Honda rider has endured a bruising weekend at the German GP, crashing five times so far – the latest of which in morning warm-up left him with a fracture in his hand.
Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited the pitlane.
Both riders were unharmed in the incident, but locked horns as Marquez apportioned blame on Zarco.
Later that evening the FIM stewards issued a notification to all riders stating it was the responsibility of the competitor exiting pitlane to be aware of any oncoming traffic into Turn 1.
On Saturday, Marquez crashed three times across both qualifying sessions, leaving him seventh on the grid.
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While briefly running fifth in the 15-lap sprint later that day, several early warnings on his Honda led him to backing off and he plummeted to 11th.
He later said that the risks he was taking didn’t justify the results, given the crashes he had already had.
On Sunday morning in the 10-minute warm-up session, Marquez suffered his fifth crash of the Germany weekend when he was flicked from his Honda going through Turn 6.
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Source: Autosport