Three weeks after fracturing his collarbone, Marco Bezzecchi is still not in peak condition upon arriving at the MotoGP Thailand GP. Nevertheless, he has endured the pain and fatigue in the past two rounds and now feels better physically.
During a press conference, the Mooney VR46 Racing Team rider provided an update on his physical condition: ‘Well, I cant’ complain overall. I removed the stitches, so this made a big step for me because my skin is not tight anymore. I feel better, I’m very proud of my scar. I had one day more to rest, to make therapy twice a day or three times a day. Every time I had nothing to do I tried to recover a bit the shoulder – the arm especially, the arm is creating me many problems, in Australia was the worst part. Overall I’m very happy to finally go back on the bike and try to see how I feel’.
The Buriram circuit combines some of the most challenging characteristics from the two previous tracks, but Bezzecchi clarified that his physical difficulties were different in Indonesia and Australia: ‘In Indonesia I had a lot of pain, because the surgery was done just five days before, so it was really painful on the bone and everywhere around. In Australia it was more the fatigue from Indonesia – the pain was less, but the fatigue was more. So I expected to struggle less, but unfortunately I didn’t. And here I don’t know; I hope to be stronger, to be more in shape. Of course I knew I had to suffer, so my mentality was already ready for this. But I can handle the pain and I can suffer, so I hope to go well’.