Marc Marquez explains how he rushed to help “unconscious” Franco Morbidelli
Franco Morbidelli was▨ hospitalised but thanked Marc Marquez for helping hi🅺m after a crash

Marc Marquez has shared scary details about Franc🎃o Morbidelli’s crash in Portimao.
Morbidelli crashed his Ducati on a testing day earlier this week, an incident which was not televis♐ed, but which left him hospitalised.
Marc and Alex Marquez we🧜re the first on the scene to aid the fallen rider.
“Me🌌 and Alex helped Franco,” Marc said at a Gres♕ini event in Jakarta.
“We are opponents, but at the same time,🐲 we are mates.
“We were testing in Portimao, we saw a red flag, we were the first to ar🐈rive between Turn 8 and 9.
“We saw that Franco was unconscious on the run-off are�𒉰�a.
“He was, a little bit, in a strange position wit🧜h his head up.
“Me and Alex, we stopped straight away. We left the bikes on the floor and ran to Franco to put him [in a lateral po🙈sition].
“Because when you are unconscious, you are looking to the [sky], it is danger𒁏ous because you cannot breathe well.
“We ༺put him laterally. 🧜We opened his leather suit and opened his helmet.
“We waited for the medical staff. When the medical staff arriveꦆd, we just went back to the box.
“We are opponents, but🌼 at the same time mates. We want the beꦬst for our opponents.”
Marqꩲuez and Morbidelli had clashed towards the end of the 2023 MotoGP se𓃲ason, when the then-Honda rider angered the then-Yamaha rider by towing.
But this week after his cras꧙h, Morbidelliꩵ had thanked Marquez via social media.
“Thankyou for all the meꦏssages,” Morbidelli wrote.
“Thanks to the stewards’ aid I have been able to go through this big hit wit🅺hout any probl🧜em!
“And also, thanks ꦇto Marc Marquez [for his] aid on track. Thank you, man!”
Morbidelli, who has joined Pramac Ducaꦍti this season, needed two CT scans which ruled out any serious injuries after his crash.
He spent🃏 a night in hospital and is now back home.
But it remains 💧to be seen whether he will be fit enough to tes⛄t in Sepang, which is due to begin on Tuesday February 6.

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