{"id":25475,"date":"2026-05-18T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/25475\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:07:54","slug":"broken-bones-for-alex-marquez-and-johann-zarco-after-crashes-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/25475\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken bones for Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco after crashes in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco will remain in hospital after the two riders sustained fractures in separate crashes that forced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL1N41U02N&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catalan Grand Prix to be red-flagged twice<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gresini Racing\u2019s Marquez could not react in time when Pedro Acosta\u2019s bike lost power and he slammed into the back of the KTM, before he careered towards the wall and then cartwheeled through the air as he lost control on the gravel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marquez was immediately rushed to the hospital where scans confirmed he had a marginal fracture on the vertebra near his neck as well as a fracture on his right collarbone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEverything\u2019s under control. I\u2019m due to go into the operating theatre tonight [Sunday], but I couldn\u2019t be in better hands,\u201d Marquez said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThank you all so much for your concern and for the kind messages I\u2019ve been receiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the race restarted, LCR Honda\u2019s Zarco was involved in a crash when he braked late on turn one of the first lap as he took out Ducati\u2019s Francesco Bagnaia and Honda\u2019s Luca Marini in a three-rider pile-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both Bagnaia and Marini immediately signalled for help from the track marshals after Zarco tumbled across the gravel with his leg caught on Bagnaia\u2019s bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019re still waiting for the test results. I\u2019ve got a neck brace on, but it\u2019s more of a nuisance than anything else,\u201d Zarco said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s mainly the knee; the ligaments have snapped. But the femur isn\u2019t broken. There\u2019s a small fracture at the bottom of the fibula, on the outside of my left ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo there you go, I\u2019ll keep you posted. Just to put your minds at rest, really. More of a scare than anything \u2026 I\u2019m staying in hospital tonight because they want to keep an eye on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco will remain in hospital after the two riders sustained fractures in separate crashes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12795,13255,13172,17],"class_list":["post-25475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-alex-marquez","tag-catalan-grand-prix","tag-johann-zarco","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}