The good feelings obtained from pole position and the Sprint session on Saturday vanished due to the fall of Marc Márquez at the start of the race.
The start of the 2023 MotoGP season was challenging for the Honda Repsol HRC team, which after a difficult pre-season was once again excited by the results obtained by Marc Márquez in the qualifying sessions for the inaugural GP, the Portuguese GP held on the twisty race track of Portimão.
Márquez closed the classifications by taking pole position and third place in the first sprint race held in MotoGP. Joan Mir for his part, after a promising start of training, was handicapped by a penalty in the Sprint session for hitting Fabio Quartararo, which weighed him down to fourteenth position on the starting grid.
But everything fell apart for the rider from Cervera when, after a rough start that had dropped him to fourth place, he tried to overtake Jorge Martín's Ducati by touching the Madrid rider's bike and violently impacting Miguel Oliveira's Aprilia.
In this way the three riders suffered different physical damages, although initially it seemed that the local rider took the worst part in the absence of medical confirmation it seems that Jorge Martín suffers a fracture in one of the toes and Marc Márquez may have a fracture in the first metacarpal of the right hand.
In addition, Márquez, who was very sorry and worried about what happened, has been severely penalized with a double "long lap" in the next round in Argentina.
This incident has marked the rest of the race in which the Italian Pecco Bagnaia has taken victory with his Ducati by being able to keep Maverick Viñales' Aprilia at bay. Third place on the podium went to Marco Bezzechi with Ducati.
Joan Mir finished in eleventh place and, like the rest of the Honda Repsol HRC team, wants to turn the page on the Portuguese event as soon as possible and focus on the next GP.
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