MotoGP 2026: Alex Marquez Aims to Return at Czech GP After Horrific Catalan Crash
Alex Marquez will travel to the Czech Republic for a final medical check after surgery on fractures from his Catalan GP crash.
- Gresini Racing's Alex Marquez aims to return to the MotoGP World Championship at the Czech Grand Prix, pending a final medical check-up announced on Tuesday.
- Marquez missed the Italian and Hungarian MotoGP races after suffering a horrific crash at the Catalan Grand Prix in May, which sidelined the 30-year-old rider.
- During the Catalan event, Marquez slammed into Pedro Acosta's bike and cartwheeled through the air, sustaining a fractured vertebra near his neck and right collarbone requiring surgery.
- After medical checks in Spain, Marquez will fly to the Czech Republic this weekend with the aim of being "declared fit" to race, his team added.
- The Czech Grand Prix is scheduled from June 19 to June 21, 2026, with Marquez currently sitting ninth in the riders' championship after eight rounds this season.
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This Tuesday it has happened that Álex Márquez is going to be in Brno. Gresini’s pilot was injured during the house appointment... and the truth is that he could give thanks even considering the hardness of the fall. After passing the relevant medical tests it was ruled that the ‘73’ had a fracture in the right clavicle and a marginal fracture of the C7 vertebra. Both ailments caused Cervera’s to lose the rounds of Mugello (Italy) and Balaton Pa…
MotoGP 2026: Alex Marquez aims to return at Czech GP after horrific Catalan crash
Gresini Racing’s Alex Marquez aims to return to action at the Czech Grand Prix race at the Brno Circuit, pending a final medical check-up, Moto GP announced on social media on Tuesday. The 30-year-old missed the Italian and Hungarian MotoGP races after a horrific crash at the Catalan GP in May.
Álex Márquez is ready to return to the competition. Cervera’s driver has received the approval of his doctors this Tuesday to travel to Brno to compete in the GP of the Czech Republic after a month off. His presence in the GP is pending a new medical check-up that will pass this Thursday on the circuit. So, in the absence of the ok of the MotoGP doctors, the Spanish is ready to return to the action. This is what the Gresini team has announced, w…
As always, these boys have shortened the deadlines. Àlex Márquez (Ducati) fractured his right clavicle, of which he was immediately operated, and the C7 vertebra was seriously damaged, which, despite not requiring medical intervention, did need, as little as six weeks of absolute rest, but the little one of the Márquez Alentá will be ready in five weeks and hopefully, this Thursday, the medical team led by Dr. Angel Charte, responsible for the W…
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