Marquez wouldn’t have raced Mugello MotoGP had surgery news come earlier

The six-time MotoGP world champion announced on Saturday at Mugello that he will sit out racing for the foreseeable future – possibly for the rest of 2022 – to have a fourth operation in America on the right arm he badly broke in 2020.

Marquez had confirmation of the surgery on Friday between practice sessions at Mugello and continued with the grand prix, the Honda rider qualifying…