VOLUME 57 ISSUE 39 SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 P75
MARC MARQUEZ RETURNS
The champion was back. But not in the sense
we expected. Marc Marquez returned to the
paddock for the first time since his ill-conceived
comeback at the Andalusian Grand Prix on
Thursday. The reason was to greet his team,
discuss strategies for 2021 and pick up several
items from the Repsol Honda team truck. He
would not return to the track after his Thursday
departure, however, leaving the team and brother
Alex to face the task at hand. He offered an up-
date on the state of his upper right arm. "Now ev-
ery day, every week, I feel something different,"
he said. "The first three weeks were the same
because I didn't feel anything, and I didn't feel
any improvement. But now I start to feel some
improvements, we start to work at the gym, I start
to train." But he maintained a date on his eventual
return has yet to be set. "I know that we are in a
good way, but I don't know if I will be on the bike
in one month, in two weeks or in two months."
CRUTCHLOW'S MISSTEP
Cal Crutchlow's season veered into the barely
believable territory as he suffered another injury
ahead of the Catalan GP. Returning to the pad-
dock after complications to surgery to alleviate
arm pump, the Englishman fell out of a clinic
at the circuit where had just had a coronavirus
test, rupturing ligaments in his left ankle in the
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