Alex Marquez vomited in his helmet before crashing: “As if the body collapsed”
The Gresini rider lost the front end of his bike while trying to overtake Jorge Martin into fourth, ultimately falling. He was then wiped out by Jorge Martin in Sunday's race, and went home without a point.
But he revealed that he vomited during the sprint, and again afterwards.
“I tried not to get nervous, but halfway through the race I started to feel sick to my stomach and I vomited as I braked,” he told DAZN.
“It is as if the body has collapsed. I don't know.
“Something has made me sick with the food, although I have eaten the same as always.
“For whatever reason, I have thrown up.
Then, when I got to the garage, I vomited again, but now everything is clean.
“Something has felt wrong. Now to rest for [Sunday].
“It will be a long and hard race. We have rhythm.
“I ran out of steam, but we could keep up, which makes me happy. To improve the starts, which is the key point.”
Marquez didn’t sustain any physical damage in his crash but his race on Sunday was cut short by a first-lap incident with Martin.
He said about Saturday’s sprint: “I don't know if I could have made the podium, but fifth place and keep fighting? Yes.
“I have gone very wrong. In the first corner I fixed it more or less and then I tried not to get nervous, to go step by step.
“Here it was difficult to overtake and it was a bit of a waste.
“On the back straight everyone was going long and it was easy to make mistakes.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
