Alex Marquez undergoes surgery on his right shoulder and begins recovery at home

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Alex Marquez undergoes surgery on his right shoulder and begins recovery at home

Germán Garcia Casanova · Motorsport

Tue, November 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM UTC ·

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Alex Marquez has undergone successful surgery on his right shoulder, which has been hindering his performance since a crash at Barcelona in May.

After finishing third in last Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, the Gresini rider revealed that he was set to go under the knife again to solve the problems caused by the injury he suffered on 17 May in Barcelona, when he collided with Pedro Acosta's KTM and was sent flying through the air.

Immediately after the incident, he underwent emergency surgery to stabilise his right collarbone, which had been fractured into four pieces. After returning at Assen at the end of June, he began to experience pain in the area, with stiffness in his shoulder, which led to bursitis. The situation worsened when he had to face two consecutive races, having to inject himself with painkillers in order to compete.

Marquez had originally scheduled a second collarbone surgery at the end of the 2026 season, but decided to bring it forward after assessing his condition in recent races.

"Yesterday, I underwent surgery at the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid to remove osteosynthesis material from my right collarbone and left hand," he explained in a social media post. "In addition, during the same surgical procedure, I underwent an arthroscopic bursectomy on my right shoulder," added the rider, who travelled from Kuala Lumpur to Madrid on Sunday night, going directly to the hospital where he underwent surgery.

"To explain it in a simpler way, they removed the plates and fixation elements I had in my collarbone and hand. In addition, they removed a small sac in the shoulder that helps prevent friction between the tendons and the joint. This last procedure was performed by means of arthroscopy, a minimally invasive technique," he further explained.

Alex Marquez r is pleased that "the surgery went without any complications", and reports that "now my recovery at home begins. One more little step towards getting back to 100%!"

Although everything went as expected, Marquez's absence from this weekend's Qatar Grand Prix is confirmed, and the Spaniard will try to return at the next round in Portugal on 22 November, before the season concludes with the Valencia GP on 29 November.

The younger Marquez, who will race for the official KTM team next season, is aiming to attain full fitness in time for the post-season test at Valencia on 1 December, when he will get to ride KTM's new 850cc bike on 1 December for the first time.

In addition to Alex Marquez, participation of several riders remains doubtful for the Qatar GP, including Jorge Martin, Raul Fernandez and Fermin Aldeguer. If Aldeguer is unable to recover in time to travel to Qatar, Gresini would be left without any full-time riders, but with the option of continuing to count on Iker Lecuona.

Honda, for the time being, has not definitively ruled out Joan Mir for Doha, despite the vision problems and dizziness that reappeared in Sepang.

Yamaha duo Alex Rins and Fabio Quartararo will not be in Qatar, nor will the riders from the satellite Pramac team, Jack Miller and Toprak Razgatlioglu, the latter still being injured. The Iwata manufacturer has refused to send its team to Doha amid the ongoing conflict in the region.