The six-time world champion has had a fraught start to the 2022 campaign and struggled to understand the radically revised Honda MotoGP bike, which is now more rear-biased to improve traction.
Finishing fifth in the 2022 Qatar curtain-raiser, his first race since winning the 2021 Emilia-Romagna GP after a pre-Portugal training crash left him with double vision that forced him out of the final two rounds, Marquez was then ruled out of the Indonesian Grand Prix when a violent warm-up crash left him with a concussion. This led to the return of double vision problems which forced him to sit out the following Argentina GP.
