MotoGP: Marquez to miss Dutch GP

Marc Marquez will sit out the Grand Prix at the TT Circuit Assen after being declared unfit as a result of the injuries sustained at the German GP last week, which have been aggravated further in Assen.

Marquez crashed five times across the Sachsenring round, with his final fall in warm-up leading to a small hand fracture and ruling him out of the main grand prix.

Further check-ups revealed an ankle injury and a rib fracture, with the latter now forcing him to skip the final race before the summer break.

“Apart from the [2020] injuries, this is the worst moment of my sporting career,” he said.

“But defeat is the easy option. And I will never choose the easy way.

“Right now I’m riding for myself; for my engineers. Going half a second a lap slower, the problems are the same.”