World MotoGP champion Marquez to miss two races with fracture

AFP | Paris

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Newly-crowned world champion Marc Marquez was on Monday ruled out of the next two races after suffering a fracture and ligament injury to his right shoulder in the Indonesia MotoGP race.

The Spaniard was shunted off his Ducati at high speed on the first lap of the Indonesia MotoGP on Sunday.

Ducati said the Spaniard had “suffered a fracture at the base of the coracoid process and a ligament injury to his right shoulder,” but ruled out any connection with a previous shoulder injury.

Marquez’s medical team in Madrid have “opted for a conservative treatment plan, involving rest and immobilisation of the affected shoulder until it is fully healed and the fracture is clinically consolidated,” Ducati said.

This rules Marquez out of the Grand Prix in Australia (October 17-19) and another at Malaysia (October 24-26). That leaves two more races at Portugal (November 07-09) and Valencia (November 14-16) of the 22 race program.