“I continue fighting because, in the end, my passion for racing is more than what I was suffering,” Marc Márquez says as he explains his long, slow comeback from a terrible series of injuries which, a year ago this month, led to him facing a fourth surgery on his upper right arm that included a 30-degree rotation of his humerus bone. Márquez has won six MotoGP world titles, but he has had many more horrific crashes.
His operation last year, at the renowned Mayo Clinic in the US, was a final chance for his surgeon to save him from early retirement. As the opening of a vivid behind-the-scenes five-part documentary series on him reveals on Red Bull TV, Márquez came close to quitting before surgery. “Is it worth it or not?” he said, his mouth crumpled as he struggled to contain his tears. “This suffering isn’t necessary.”
