Hand injury or not, few will be surprised to see Marc Marquez in podium contention at the remaining four MotoGP rounds. As such he is expected to play an indirect role in the title outcome between Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. The Repsol Honda star needed a plate inserted after fracturing the fifth metacarpal of his left hand in a post-Aragon mountain bike accident. Marquez underwent surgery on the same hand after a dirt track accident in April. “My injury is not bad. Okay it is little bit different to Jorge [who sprained his shoulder in a training accident] because the bone is broken but I feel okay,” Marquez said at Motegi, Japan on Thursday. “We will see...
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